View this article at: http://dev.macnn.com/articles/06/03/17/podner.15.released Friday, Mar 17, 2006 4:00pm Podner 1.5 offers cropping ... Splasm Software today released Podner 1.5, an update to its iPod video processing application that includes a new cropping feature, as well as significant DV performance improvements. The update offers iMovie HD project support, better iPod compatibility when users customize their encoding settings, new preferences to enable/disable DV "deinterlacing," and some minor fixes. Podner boasts faster video clip preparation for iPods than QuickTime Pro's Movie to iPod 320 x 240 option, with users able to drag movie files to the Podner window and optionally tweak settings before starting file conversions. Version 1.5 also prompts for an output location before each process, and is available for free to registered users. The application is priced at $10 for new users.