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    Posted by Daniel5000 on June 2, 2005 at 12:58 pm

    Hello all
    I work for a growing production company which includes creating sequences from
    After effects (PC and MAC) some Premiere work and a lot of Final Cut Pro work.

    This work plus the encodeing is broken up between a few people useing differt encodeing tools. We would like to centralize our compression software allowing all of us to regardless of platform to encode to WMV9 Mpeg 1 and Mpeg2 and maybe some flash video . I was looking at ProCoder Station from Canopus (doesn

    Daniel5000 replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Daniel_l

    June 2, 2005 at 4:38 pm

    Daniel,

    Forget cleaner XL – although it’s still being sold, it’s a dead product.

    Procoder is excellent and can do Flash with the addition of a Flash plug-in from the likes of Wildform. http://www.wildform.com. I love the speed and quality of the MPEG-2 it spits out.

    Daniel

  • Daniel5000

    June 2, 2005 at 4:55 pm

    Thanks Daniel
    Yes I have heard good things about procoder but do you have any experience with procoder station as supposed to just procoder.

    I know on procoder a person can set up watch folders for encoding but I

  • Charles Simonson

    June 4, 2005 at 12:04 am

    Canopus does have a good product in the ProCoder Station. You may also want to look at Compression Engine from Popwire. Its not a pre-built solution like Procoder Station, but it does offer similar features and network assisted-rendering encoding. The upcoming 2.1 release will offer much enhanced MPEG-1 and 2 encoding as well.

  • Daniel5000

    June 8, 2005 at 4:33 pm

    Thanks Charles

    I have Compression master and I think it OK. Unfortunately I hade some problems with some Windows media files which has given me pause in using it as an encoding solution.
    But I have a demo of Procoder station this week and will see what they have to say

  • Charles Simonson

    June 10, 2005 at 3:54 am

    What issues did you have with WMV encoding and CM? Quality? Compatibility? Have you tested the newest 3.1 release? WMV encoding has been quite enhanced with MBR intellistream encoding for one.

  • Daniel5000

    June 13, 2005 at 4:25 pm

    Hello Late again with the reply

    Looking into 3.1 now. However the previous version I produced WMV files that did not have the key frame setting of

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