Stomp Review and Giveaway

Posted by Gregoire on 04/2/08 in Featured, Giveaways, Utilities, Video

Icon Last November Shinywhitebox released Stomp. Stomp is a very useful application that allows you to re-encode videos, crop them, add effects and even more. Shinywhitebox is a software company from New Zealand that has already created two apps: iShowU, a screen recording tool, and Chatter, a screensharing tool. Today they released the 1.6 version of Stomp; let’s see in more detail what this application is capable of.

Stomp has two main features : re-encoding and effects.

The first feature allows you to re-encode a video in a different format. The application includes a lot of different presets from Apple TV to YouTube, but you can also choose your own settings for both video and audio, and even create your own presets.

The second main feature of this application is the addition of effects, known as filters in Stomp. Indeed, you can add different effects to your video such as blur, starshine, bump distortion… But what’s even better is that you can apply several effects to one video. Also, all the effects are customizable and they’re also previewable so that you know what the final result will look like.

Stomp is very easy to use; its one-window interface is very easy to understand and you can get started in one minute. Just select the filters you want to apply to your video, choose the encoding preset and click the process button. The progress bar will show you the status of the conversion.

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Stomp features several other tools that are very handy if you edit videos. For example, you can crop a video - you just have to select the area you want to keep and Stomp will crop it. You can also resize a video or change the FPS rate.

Another nice feature is the Growl integration that notifies you when one of your processes is done, so that you don’t have to check every 3 minutes to see if your movie is compressed or if you still have to wait 45 seconds.

Finally, one of my favorite functions is the batch editing that allows you to apply the same modifications to a list of video.

You can download Stomp from Shinywhitebox, and it costs $29.95, or $22.16 if you have a license of iShowU.

Shinywhitebox has agreed to give away 1 license of Stomp. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment on how would Stomp be useful to you.

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marieboyer said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 am

I own and love iShowU. I would love to make my screencast video in iShowU and then send it directly to Stomp for encoding and filtering. In a word: symbiosis.

Lee Houghton said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 6:42 am

I create a lot of videos to use as backdrops behind song words for my church.
I am often given raw media in varying formats that I need to convert.
This will be a great tool to allow me to take video, encode it into the format our media presentation software likes (it can be quite picky), and add effects to allow song words to show up clearly (some clips are too busy as they are, effects will allow the words to stand out far easier.
And the batch feature will allow me to produce several clips at once!

Wes said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 am

I could compress large video files to small ones quickly for clients to view. It would really help improve my workflow as well.

Joe Cool said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 am

I would use Stomp mainly to crop videos either that I got from sources that had letterboxed them or that I needed to change from 16×9 to 4×3.

Ammon Beckstrom said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 am

I’d like to use Stomp in conjunction with Snapz X Pro. I haven’t yet found a simple video editing app that I really, really like. This one could be it!

Stephan said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 am

I would optimize the size of our educational videos for medical students in transfusion medicine so that these videos could be distributed more easily via the educational intranet. And furthermore it would be nice having the possibility to add a few effects to beef the clips up.

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Terry said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 am

It would be great for compressing video for the web.

Oleksandr said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 am

I will use it to convert video for web.
Only 2 things I cant find its abillity to convert
to .flv Flash Video and ability to read .mpg files.
Very nice GUI and a lot of features, cool program,
but I can’t find it on http://www.macupdate.com

rebka said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 am

I would join all the splitted videos you get on the web
And (if possible) I would re-encode all of my wmv files to a good format.

Phill said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm

As a VJ in a video bar, this tool could be amazing to make remix vids as well as various wallpapers that could entertain the crowds for hours.

spacenaut said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm

I’ve don a few videos where I turned the camera side on, now I can retrieve them by cropping them to look as if I filmed them properly.

The Spirit said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm

i´d like to transform my videos to stream them over to my ps3

Mike said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm

This app’ would be a lifesaver for me - I’m always editing, for all kinds of different projects, and I have to pull in a lot of archive footage that comes in several different formats. This app sounds perfect for batch exporting to Final Cut ready clips

Joe Turner said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm

Stomp would be useful to me because it would let me re-encode h.264 videos into smaller sizes; change size, bitrate, audio kps etc

David said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 7:44 pm

@Oleksandr #8

Here it is on MacUpdate
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26144/stomp

Anyway, I’d like Stomp because I’m tired of my current program I’m using (not pointing fingers.) ..

David said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 7:44 pm

I entered my email address wrong in my last comment. This is the correct one. Thanks!

Jeremy Callan said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 pm

Wow, this sounds like the perfect app for converting vids to pop on my new Irish iPhone!

Mark said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm

I’d love a copy of this to convert videos for iPhone, iPod and PSP, as well as add effects for use in video backdrops.

Bill W said on

April 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 am

I already own Stomp, iShowU, and Chatter, so I don’t want to be considered for the free license, but I thought I’d share how I use Stomp. The coolest thing I have done with Stomp is this: when I find an application with a bug, or one that isn’t behaving the way I think it should, I capture video of the app and the offending behavior using iShowU to grab the area of interest, or the entire screen. I then bring the captured video into Stomp and export using High Compression, so that my entire video is often less than 5 MB in size. I then describe the problem, and attach the video file to the email. Every single time I have attached a video demonstration of the problem, I have gotten a personalized response from one of the developers, saying how cool it was to actually SEE how the problem occurred.

I anticipate doing something similar on our tech support website, where a 30-second movie might explain a process better than a page of text, or numerous phone calls.

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Richard said on

April 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 am

I could really use it to crop and compress videos before sending them over the web.

Nicolas said on

April 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 am

Damn god, really cool apps, well done !

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rmaspero said on

April 3rd, 2008 at 10:22 am

When I am at school often i get handed film that have been ripped and my friends ask me to put them on there iPod or into other formats and this would just make it so much easier to do. Also I love to create films in iMovie but some times iMovie annoys me because it has a lack of effects and this would really help now as I am about to edit my video for my GCSE and I would love to put some really cool effects in. One of the things that bugs me with iMovie is if you are in another space it is not good at notifying you what it is doing and the growl integration would be so cool.

Amirah said on

April 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 am

I’m studying A-Level Media Studies in High School and could really use Stomp to easily spice up and make my projects more interesting!!

Nightstrike said on

April 4th, 2008 at 9:40 am

I work as a research assistant, and my professor often wants video clips from various sources, which are too large to send over email, or are in formats her computer can’t really understand. With Stomp I could fix all of those problems!

Adam Teece said on

April 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

I got Snapz Pro X with the MacHeist bundle and have been trying to find a good video editor, but all I have right now is iMovie and it can only do so much. I have a lot to learn about video editing as well.

Yuan Zhao said on

April 6th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

This would seriously reduce the sizes of videos that I upload.

Giovanni Positano said on

April 13th, 2008 at 11:23 am

The only way I would use the very promising — and, by the way, appealing app — is if I could filter out all of the unconstitutional, hence illegal and subversive stuff that Pres. Bush and his NeoCon elitists have perpetrated against us to benefit them, such as the US Fascist Act, the Military Commissions Act, getting rid of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, and making the NSA spy on Americans.

If Stomp can do these, it would be a really patriotic app. *S*

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