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Compressor 4 and h.264
Has anyone had a chance to see if Apple has upgraded/improved its h.264 encoder in the new Compressor 4?
-Parke
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Hey Parke,
Not exactly sure what you mean by “upgraded/improved”. Compressor, unfortunately, has taken the biggest hit as far as improvements goes. I’ll stick with my Sorenson Squeeze and Adobe’s Media Encoder for any H264 encoding.
Kevin P McAuliffe
Creative COW Trainer
kevinpmcauliffe@gmail.com
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Kevin,
How does Adobe’s Media Encoder compare to Compressor in terms of stability, encoding speed, picture quality & format options? What about Avid options?
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I’ll be honest. I was an AME hater. In CS4 it was clunky and slow. In CS5.5, on my 4 year old iMac, it rocks. Super fast, excellent looking encodes. When I produce my tutorials for the COW, and other sites, they are encoded with AME. In many cases I can get 1.5 to 2x’s real time with my encodes. Oh, if only I had an 8 core machine! LOL.
Kevin P McAuliffe
Creative COW Trainer
kevinpmcauliffe@gmail.com
Twitter: @kpmcauliffe -
Yeah… that’s what I mean… as most know, Apple’s implementation of h.264 is not the greatest on the market for both performance and quality. I’m hoping that FCPx and Compressor 4 would up their ante. Has anyone had a chance to do side-by-side comparisons with v4 and v3.5 and/or other offerings like MainConcept/AME or x264?
Thanks,
Parke——-Stuck On On——–
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I did some tests today on Compressor 3 and 4 to H.264 What works for me right now is to output a QuickTime file with current settings then compress with Compressor 3. I went from an agonizing 15 hours for a one hour clip to 2.5 hours. The details are here https://wp.me/p2gorK-1w
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