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Flip 4 Mac??
Has anyone had any problems with this loaded…FCP, Compressor, DVDSP or AJA? Do they all play well together? Is it better than Cleaner? Faster than Cleaner? Thanks for sharing your experiences.
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As far as I know it’ll work within your existing encoding application; compressor, cleaner or as an export from FCP, just like any other Quicktime export. The advantage of using cleaner is the pre-proccessing.
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Cleaner can do most of the preprocessing using the F4M encoder (its fully QT compatible, so you can export from Cleaner using the F4M encoder) that it does with its own builtin WMV encoder. Basically, if you use F4M inside of Cleaner, your only options that are limited are sizing and interlacing, and these are only limited because the F4M encoder overrides them with its own tools.
As far as quality and speed, quailty with the F4M encoder is light years beyond Cleaner’s WMV encoder. Cleaner only supported WMV7, which wasn’t even close to SV3 standards in its time. F4M uses WMV9, which is backwards compatible up to WMP6.3 on the PC. WMV9 is also considered by many to be the standard bearer of quality for video encoding these days. For speed, well, you’re not going to be able to turn around and the encoding will be done. The F4M encoder is very slow, just like Cleaner’s builtin encoder.
For an alternative, at a much lower price, if all you need is single-pass WMV encoding, don’t forget to check out the QT encoder from Popwire as well. It is also much faster than the F4M encoder, although it is still no where near “speedy”.
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