How To: Easy and Best Video Quality Conversion Using VisualHub on Mac
I previously wrote how to convert videos for Nokia Nseries phones, but now I’ve been using a better solution for Mac users with phones capable of playing excellent quality H.264 videos like the Nokia N93i, Nokia N82, and all versions of the Nokia N95. VisualHub creators made sure to make the program very easy to use. Take a look at the How-To.

VisualHub settings for High-Quality-Video-capable Nseries phones.
Step 1. Open up VisualHub and choose conversion to iTunes optimized for iPod. Also check the H.264 encoding option.
Step 2. That’s it! Just drag any video files into VisualHub and click Start. HUH?! That’s it? Yep, I told you it was simple.
Background
The Nokia N82, Nokia N95, and the Nokia N93i’s movie player, RealPlayer, can all handle video compresed with MPEG-4 AVC also known as H.264, which has become the preferred compressions for best quality and low file sizes. It’s also good to know that these devices can only handle the baseline profile under H.264. These properties are similar to the videos available for the iPods (not the iPhone).
All the converted videos will end in .MP4 extension. Someone may ask why I chose iTunes instead of MP4 tab. The reason for that is the H.264 checkbox under the MP4 tab will not support the Baseline profile, so it won’t be playable on the phone. You’ll hear audio, but just see a black screen.
Question. My question to my Mac readers is how do you convert your videos for your Nokia devices? Do you use VisualHub? Is there another app I need to try out?
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Lukas on 23 December 2007:
You could also try iSquint, the predecessor of VisualHub - it only supports iPod conversion, but that should be the same thing, and it’s freeware.
There is also ffmpegX, which has more options, but it’s a bit outdated and not as easy to use.
James @ Nokia Creative on 23 December 2007:
It has always been about Visual Hub for me. It’s fast, the quality is second to none, it can handle just about anything… just make sure you pick up FairMount too!
Other than that I sometimes use Quicktime and if I’m just doing straight up rips of DVD’s I’ll go for Handbrake.
jeroen on 8 January 2008:
you are using quite an old visualhub. I have got more itunes options like: ipod classic, ipod 5g, ipod nano and iphone. which one should i use?
Mark Guim on 8 January 2008:
Thanks for reminding me @jeroen. Looks like I’ll need to update my visualhub and see what I need to change in this post
Matthew Miller (aka palmsolo) on 17 January 2008:
Mark, have you found good VisualHub settings for video on the Nokia N800/N810? I think this device would be perfect for video, but haven’t yet found a good set of settings for decent conversions.
Mark Lub on 31 January 2008:
Please help!!! for some reason i can’t drag movie files from itunes to visualhub anyone any solutions?
Mark Guim on 31 January 2008:
@Mark Lub, I can’t do that either. What I do is add the file to visualhub using search when select file pops up.
@palmsolo sorry I don’t have a N810 to play with so I don’t know the settings.
Mark_lub on 3 February 2008:
Hello, me again.
Everything works just fine now.
But i can’t send the movies to my n95 8GB, it says i don’t have enough free dataspace.
But there is more then enough?
Now i read something about mass memory in the manuel. but that is for windows and i have Mac.
could someone help?
Quentin on 12 March 2008:
This does not work for me. The Audio and Video are out of sync!
Gaz on 16 June 2008:
Which one to use in latest version of visual hub
stoph04 on 7 August 2008:
Hi there,
visualhub works great, theres only one problem when it comes to playing the widescreen films on my n95 8g it squeezes the film on to the screen and its hard to watch. Does anybody know the best dimensions to compress the avi files at, to get the best visual effect on the n95 8g or do i need to use a different software?
can anyone help!!!
any replies would be much appreciated
cormac on 6 October 2008:
Hi, I’ve just bought an E71 & I clicked on the link to Visual Hub, but the sites been shut down. Any one got any other info for converting video for the E71?
Cheers