Panic over Mpeg Streamclip compatibility with High Sierrra

[Sebastian Leitner]

MPEG STREAMCLIP is completely outdated and partly broken (there has not been an update in years – do not expect them to step up now). do not use it. i know it’s a great tool but it had its time, quality and speed are bad in comparison. there are numerous ffmpeg-based encoders out there, which give better results just like iFFMPEG.

HANDBRAKE is no real contestant since its format pool is very limited, still a great tool if you need fantastic x264 compression. h265 is available in ME and compressor – or via 3rd party (free) tools, google it.

forget SORENSON, it’s expensive and super slow. MEDIA ENCODER is good and compressor as well, both offer similar options but ME has tons more features (like IBU/EBU batch mastering for audio, DCP via wraptor (would not recommend it though) VP9, which apple ignores completely but the internet is full of it (netflix, youtube for 4K etc) and better subtitle support.

and then there is EDIT READY which is the king of it all, fastest most HQ results. limited formats though but all the professional ones are there. in my experience FCPX still delivers the best apple native h264 exports (together with QTX which outputs youtube-speced files in 2 clicks) – compressor is great if you want more control.