NEW PRODUCT FOR H264 EXPORT!

[Walter Biscardi]

[Russell Lasson] “have very little info on it but it looks really useful as H264 approval videos can be a pain to crunch.”

Compressor 3 does a much faster job of H.264 and takes full advantage of all processors on your machine so before purchasing another product, I would see what Compressor 3 adds first. Just my 2 cents.

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[Russell Lasson]

I challenge you to a race! Not a race of crunching speed. But a race to see which will ship first, Turbo.264 or Compressor 3.

Hmmmmmm…… I wonder if Compressor 3 would use Turbo.264 to help it crunch faster. It says that Turbo.264 can be used from many applications…. What if I got a USB PCI-Epresscard with several USB busses and filled them with Turbo.264 on a Octa-processor Mac? Is it possible that Compressor would use all of them?

I know I’m getting silly, but it’s been a long week. Plus, I’m a power maniac!!!! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!

-Russ

[Ben Holmes]

Turbo? Via USB2? I think not.

Maybe quicker than a G4 lappy, but not gonna speed up my OctoMacs….

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[Sean Oneil]

I read about this thing in Engadget a while back.

Faster or not, the fact you can encode h264 in the background without tying up any resources is an interesting thing to consider.

Sean

[Dudeguy37]

Does this type of thing exist for MPEG2? I do a lot of one-off DVD creation (mostly for perview and just showing stuff to friends, etc so quality is not of the utmost conern), and saving my processors from MPEG processing would be a huge help.
Thanks in advance.
Peace,

-Harry

[Jim]

I am using one of the Elgato products to encode in realtime to their codec which is really an mpeg2 stream. I then use Slipstream to convert for DVD Pro, or use as is for Ulead DVD.
(sorry I don’t recall the model #, I’m on the road and don’t have it with me, but it has a built in hardware encoder and pigtails to S-video & unbalanced audio) Not high end, but seems to work fine for many situations.

It would be interesting to see if the Elgato’s H264 box has external inputs also to go right from a deck to the encoder.

Cheers,

[Jerry Hofmann]

At NAB, Apple showed Compressor 3 on an octo and it encoded to H.264 in 1/3 the sequence time… i.e. a 9 minute sequence would encode to H.264 in 3 minutes…

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[Russell Lasson]

Single pass or multi-pass?

-Russ