30 Day Eval of $5000 Encoder

[Pookie]

Limitation - Only does 1800 frames in one shot. Yeah, it's pretty nice. Even accepts .avs files. It's only $4500 more than I'd ever spend for Mpeg2 and AVC encoding software, but that's just me.

Still, if one of you guys decides to check it out, please post findings.

ftp://pixeltools.com/demo/MprHdDem.zip

[Mug Funky]

i'm not thrilled yet...

testing mpeg-2, 3700 CBR:

- trial version limited to CBR
- avs import limited to RGB only
- very slow
- quality seems slightly better than CCE, Quenc and HC (they're all hard to distinguish - all have their charms so i'd rather not call one better than the other).

field-pictures is probably the big boost here - i'm encoding standards-converted (ie interlaced and blended fields - quite hard to compress) fast action anime.

for the dragonball lovers out there, it seems to do quite well on flashing stuff.

[maxfu]

The price is too exorbitant for me.

[Mug Funky]

...hence the 30 day trial :)

it does seem like a good encoder, but nothing that can't be equalled with a little tweaking from the free encoder camp. so i think if these dudes want to compete with CCE or other well entrenched commercial encoders, they'll have to either drop the price or increase the speed/features/quality.

h.264 is a nice touch though. i haven't had a chance to test that part, and i think by now the trial will have expired :(

[Pookie]

My sentiments exactly. Make it $500 and it would sell 15X as well.

Mug, I know that older versions of the software also required an RGB source for input, so frameserving from VirtualDub worked well, although slowwwwww - Avisynth is a recent addition. Still, kinda weird. Half the time it resulted in an unecessary YV12-RGB-YV12 conversion.

I didn't get to try the AVC encoding either before the license ran out :D