Ever since it’s original release, DV Kitchen has been cooking up a storm among reviewers.

DV Kitchen’s primary focus has always been encoding and uploading broadcast quality, internet-friendly-bandwidth video to a website, blog, forum, or for a video podcast. You can import movies, encode them, and upload them in as few as two clicks.

But things just got a little tastier. The release of DV Kitchen version 2.0 sees a complete rebuild of the media publishing room so that you can now:

  • Publish simple Quicktime embedded movies or whole HTML pages
  • Publish Quicktime embedded movies with default poster frame or whole HTML pages
  • Publish Quicktime embedded movies with custom poster frames you choose
  • Publish Quicktime H.264 or FLV in Jeroen’s Flash Player with a choice of custom skins, custom poster frame and custom watermark
  • Publish Quicktime H.264 or FLV in ShadowBox

    • The company’s demo video shows how to embed flv, mp4 and QuickTime clips, generating html on the fly. It’s very impressive . . . well worth the time to watch.

    Along with spectacular quality video encoding and publishing options, DV Kitchen also provides such refinements as SampleLab for comparing encoding recipes pre-encode, a Bitrate Budget Calculator to figure the optimum bitrate for any given audience and TimeFreezer for capturing high quality stills from your video stream.

    Download the free trial and you’ll be cookin’ up some delicious video in minutes with the best encoder for mac os x on the planet.