F4V Questions

[Daniel Low]

[Tom Laughlin] “Which encoder do you prefer for most of your encoding, whether PC or Mac”

Rhozet Carbon Coder.

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[Craig Seeman]

Depending on what features you’re looking for maybe Episode 6 will impress you.

[Daniel Low]

[Tom Laughlin] “Would it be safe to assume that the majority of those doing professional encoding use MC more”

More transcoding applications use the MainConcept Codec/SDK than any other H.264 codec. There are more licences of Mainconcepts codec out there than any other (excluding Apple’s, which is rubbish)

Therefore, more ‘professionals’ use Mainconcept than any other codec. It’s impossible to say how many people have integrated x264 into their workflow but many of the huge transcoding setups use open source FFMPEG/x264

Remember if a company goes down the x264 route, there will be nobody on the other end of a telephone line who will support it.

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[Tom Laughlin]

Geese, guys, thanks for making this easy on me! haha! Craig like one and Daniel like another. As in terms of returning with another question, would it be safe to assume that MC and AME’s MC’d h.264 codec encode the exact same, using the same codec? It was mentioned earlier that AME used MC’s codec licensed to them by MC, so does that mean the codec will encode the same quality from AME or will the MC software output a cleaner encode?

Thanks for the responses,

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Craig Seeman]

Daniel please go to my ancient business website (which is horrible).
thirdplanetvideo.com
and click on the Contact Us link.