• Compression Techniques

  Cinema Craft Encoder for MAC? Or similar

  Posted by Pierre on October 7, 2006 at 12:23 am

  Hi-

  I’m wodering if anybody knows of compression software such as Cinema Craft Encoder SP (of similar softare of equal quality) that exists for the Mac/OSX?

  Thanks,
  Michael

  Pierre replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Charles Simonson

  October 7, 2006 at 4:16 am

  MainConcept has more options than Cinema Craft and is similar in speed.
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  Pierre

  October 7, 2006 at 8:10 pm

  Thanks Charles that’s good to know. I’m going to check it out now.
  How do you think it stands up in quality?
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  Charles Simonson

  October 7, 2006 at 9:24 pm

  I really like the quality and actually prefer it to Cinema Craft. Though I should state that I have never been that fond of using Cinema Craft and much prefer to use ProCoder for encoding MPEG-2 on a PC.
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  Pierre

  October 8, 2006 at 9:26 pm

  I’m wondering though, what kind of programs the studios use to compress and author “hollywood movies”? They usually look so good? I understand obviously that they’ve been shot on 35mm and are lit well (most of the time)…. but it’s more than that.
  Someone mentioned a 6 pass encode? that’s a lot… way more than 2 (compessor and others).
  what kinds of programs do six pass?

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