• Compression Techniques

  All-in-One choices??

  Posted by Todd Gillespie on October 24, 2006 at 5:02 am

  Hi All,

  I’m sure this has been asked dozens of times, so please forgive me (i did look through previous posts)

  Any program and/or hardware stand out as a clear choice for realtime and batch encoding for both QT AND Windows.

  I have Cleaner 6 & XL (which CAN’T do h264) Neither can Procoder. I usually use Broadcaster when I want to create QT files in realtime or Compresser if I want multipass. And Windows Media player when I want realtime .wmv

  But we are getting more clients that want both? (I thought we were getting away from this!!)
  So, I’d like to create ONE system that could ‘do-it-all’

  QT h.264 AND Windows 9 AND Realtime AND Batch AND Multipass AND (maybe) at the same time??

  I’ve heard about Digital Rapids – possibly?
  Sorenson – close?

  Any others?

  Thanks,

  Todd at UCSB
  Television Production

  David Roth weiss replied 19 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Charles Simonson

  October 24, 2006 at 6:04 am

  DR is probably your best bet. There is also Telestream Episode Workgroup (formally Popwire Compression Engine) which will do this via very efficient node encoding.
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  David Roth weiss

  October 28, 2006 at 11:29 pm

  Todd,

  If you buy Flip4Mac WMV Studio ($49) or WMV Studio Pro ($99) all of your Quicktime apps including FCP, Compressor, etc. will be able to export WMV files. Flip4Mac works great and its cheap, so, if all you need is a software compressor with batch capabilities Flip4Mac will make enable you to output everything you need.

  DRW

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

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