Standalone Compressor 4 better than 3.5.3?

[Russ Haskell]

Use both versions nearly every day and agree there is no performance gain in C4. It does do MP4 h.264, but it is also more temperamental than C3.5. On the Apple boards there are many C4 issues reported – ranging from launch problems to submit problems to jobs hanging. Seldom hear similar things about C3.5.

Russ

[William Carr]

Thanks, Russ– much appreciated info. I wanted to hear from a user of both!
I will continue to use 3.5.3 plus the couple of other 3rd party standalones until I can afford to add the CS Media Encoder or other more pricey options.

[Dennis Radeke]

I agree that more RAM is crucial for any 64-bit application.

Jeff – for ProRes encoding, have you downloaded and installed these? AME ProRes Presets Now you’ll get the speed of AME for ProRes too.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Jeff Meyer]

I’ve done some ProRes encoding in AME. It’s fast, but compared with MXF/XDCAM encoding it feels sluggish. The QT32 component really slows it down.

[Dennis Radeke]

Yeah, the 32bit component does slow it down but I still think it worthwhile and the presets are not too well known for Mac users.

[Jeff Meyer]

Handy indeed. I’ve built presets fire all my outputs already, but if I had these I wouldn’t have had to build them.