Cleaner for Mac is Making a Comeback with 6.5 Update
About 6 years ago I started compressing video with an application called Media Cleaner Pro 4.0, later called Cleaner 5, and then Cleaner 6 (on the mac platform). It was a great application and could do many things as it related to video compression and then for the the last 2 to 3 years the Cleaner updates stopped coming. The last Cleaner 6 update was back in 2003. I along with many others have been frustrated with the lack of product updates but finally Cleaner 6.5 is on the way.
The next release Cleaner 6.5 for Mac, manufactured by AutoDesk, is supposed to be available sometime this winter (hopefully early winter).
These are the features expected to be available in Cleaner 6.5:
- Export Flash video .SWF and .FLV files
- Export to DivX format
- Support for QuickTime 7 including H.264
- Support for Real 10 which includes RealVideo and RealAudio
- Support for MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 (& AAC support) , AVI and WAV
I have always liked the Cleaner product and even without support over the years has included many great features for authoring and compressing streaming content. I am exciting about the possibilities within Cleaner 6.5 and am very hopeful that this next release of the Cleaner product for the Mac will make many happy and we can forget all the many days we asked for better support of the Cleaner product.
