CeltX is an amazing media writing application. You can edit movie and play scripts, screenplays, podcasts, and of course, plain text. It’s extremely well-developed, and perfect for anyone into theater and arts. It’s surprising that CeltX is still free.

Rating: 5/5. Tons of cool features, great text editing. How is this still free?

Developer site: CeltX.com

Tooble is my personal favorite YouTube video downloader for Mac. It not only looks nice, but is extremely easy to use. This app is awesome. It can also directly import to your iPod. Very cool.

Rating: 5/5. Looks and feels great, and is very simple.

Developer site: Tooble.tv Acknowledgments: Thanks to Justin for finding this app.

UPDATE: The developer now charges $15 for this application, as an update has been released. Sigh.

ffmpegX is a less-polished version of video converters like iSquint. It uses the power of Unix (which comes in every Mac) to convert videos to other formats. The settings are highly customizable and it works really fast. Great app for quick conversion.

Rating: 4.5/5. Fast and quick, but you may need to install some other tools first.

Developer site: Homepage.Mac.com/Major4/Download.html

Miro is a unique video-watching app that lets you subscribe to video podcasts (and feeds), and lets you watch them whenever you want. The only problem is that I was having trouble starting it up on my old iMac G5. It froze my computer several times, and I finally gave up. But, when I bought my nice new Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, it ran smoothly, and is a great video app.

You should also watch your hard drive space when using Miro, because it can download up to 1 GB of space in about 20 minutes (without you realizing that it was that much). Nevertheless, it’s a great app that looks nice and works well.

Rating: 4.5/5. Great interface, but sucks RAM like a vacuum.

Developer site: GetMiro.com

MPlayer is a video playing app like VLC, but it plays way more video types than VLC. The only drawback is that the interface is kind of ugly, but it’s still an amazing app. Great for when you download those videos with crazy extensions, and you don’t know what to open them with!

Rating: 4/5. Plays many video types, but has an un-Mac-like interface.

Developer site: MPlayerOSX.SourceForge.net

QT Sync is a powerful video editing app that lets you sync audio and video tracks in a Quicktime movie. Works great for fixing lip-sync problems in music videos (well, unless it’s a Britney Spears video) and making your videos line up better. This app has come a long way since version one, and is well worth a download for any video buff.

Rating: 4.5/5. Old-ish interface, but works surprisingly well (you’ll be impressed with the results).

Developer site: QTSync.com

Flip4Mac WMV is a Preference Pane that lets you play Windows Media files in Quicktime. It comes in handy all the time, and a Pro version is available (although I do not see the point of one). Great app, is useful for me frequently.

Rating: 4/5. Gets the job done, but can be a little glitchy at times.

Developer site: Flip4Mac.com/WMV.htm Note: Flip4Mac WMV is not a free product, but the Quicktime Components of it are FREE.

VLC is a cross-platform media player that plays many more video types than Quicktime. It doesn’t have the best looking interface, but it’s simple and easy to use. Personally, I would suggest using Perian over it, but VLC does have capabilities for more video types than Perian. So, if you’re caught with a video that you can’t seem to play, VLC is probably the answer for you. It really has come in handy several times for me, though.

Rating: 4.5/5. Nice that it plays other types of videos, but it looks like they didn’t spend too much time on the interface.

Developer site: VideoLan.org/VLC

Jing is a cool little screen capture app that’s currently under a lot of development. It takes screenshots and screen videos, and you can instantly upload them where you want in seconds using its built in export functions. I look forward to later versions, as this app seems to have a large development community. It’s not as easy to use as say, iShowU, but it definitely gets the job done.

Rating: 4.5/5. Very useful, but crashes occasionally.

Developer Site: JingProject.com