Charles Simonson
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I think you’ll start seeing the watch folder feature disappear in more compression apps in the sub $1K-range as we now have much faster machines that can process files much quicker. In order to maximize return on an app, companies like Telestream sort of have to exclude watch folders to the enterprise/volume encoding market. At least Episode doesn’t have total monthly encoding limits imposed on it like Squeeze does (Squeeze also charges a yearly subscription for their volume encoder which doesn’t offer scalable node encoding).
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Unfortunately, the Episode and Episode Pro products do not support watch folders. In order to get watch folders, you would need to step up to the Episode Workgroup solution, which includes Episode Engine and can monitor watch folders. The Engine is scalable and works in tandem with Pro, and thus offers a nice multi-node/scalable encoding solution. If you plan to do volume or enterprise level encoding, then this is a product you should seriously be looking at, which should fit well for your stated needs.
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Yes, but you are the moderator for F4M’s forums. Do you not see a conflict of bias here when writing about F4M products? If not, then fair enough.
I am not suggesting that you stop posting here or that your comments have been without value. But I still don’t understand why you would have a problem about letting others know about your F4M relationship in your sig, even if you only post that when writing about F4M.
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Craig, especially since you moderate the F4M forums (which I imagine is where most of your consulting fee comes from), it would be nice if you included that nugget in your sig. I don’t think there is anything wrong with you responding on these forums, but I do believe it would be nice if you made it more clear that you cannot always be unbiased when it comes to discussions involving F4M products.
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They both have batch encoding, but I think there is a cap on the number of encodes you can do at one time with the standard version of Episode.
Craig should be able to give more details on this as he works for Flip4Mac (which he really should notify people of in his sig).
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Yep, I would say that is weird. On my MBP at least, the settings in the directory you mentioned are all alias’ to the ones in the Compressor application package. But I would think where you found them in your user folder would be a safer way of going about getting them.
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You’ll want to buy at least the $495 edition, as the Flash 8 video codec (by On2) is much better than the Flash 7 codec that comes with it. For most people, the standard version of Episode is sufficient enough, as it does everything the Pro version does except for format specific features and integration with the higher end Episode server oriented products. About the only other reason to go with the Pro editon is for batch encoding. If you plan to do lots of batch encoding and processing, then go with the Pro. If you only need to encode projects a few times a day, then Episode standard should do you well.
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Yep. Save your preset and then from the Finder, go to the Go command from the top menubar and select Go to Folder… and type in /Applications/Compressor/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
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I would highly recommend Epsiode. Squeeze has an easier interface and includes the SV3 Pro codec, but beyond that Episode has Squeeze beat in almost every other category. Episode has superior image processing tools and best-in-class MPEG-4, Real, and FLV encoders.
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You have a couple of options. You can either tweak the bit rate to fit the available amount of time and space you have for the disc at the currect resolution, or you can tweak the bit rate and the encoded image size. Encoding to a smaller horizontal resolution can help you achieve better quality at lower bit rates and thus fit more content on a disc without greatly effecting overall quality of the encode.
If all you need to put on the disc is the movie content, then you could encode at about 3.2Mbps for the video and 192Kbps for the audio and be good. Depending on what type of content you have to encode, encoding at 352×480 instead of 720×480 or 704×480 may be beneficial as well.