I Found The Ultimate h.264 Converter/Encoder!
Grass Valley ProCoder 3 rocks!
Pros: The ultimate h.264 converter! This converter leaves me flabbergasted. It can make a perfect copy of a source, easily!
Cons: The high price tag. The price is cheaper, or as cheap as other professional encoders though.
Summary: This is a perfect broadcast quality solution I would think. Everything else had me scratching my head? This has the best results of anything I've tried! Awesome software, thank God! I was suffering without this baby! I've just begun to harness it's raw power. It's easy to use, man! The results are the very best, it just depends on how you set it, because you have total control. This converter will convert without any glitches in the end results, that, and you can keep 100% of the quality of your source video!
This is very user friendly, it's way ahead of all the others that I've tried, and if I listed all the ones I tried, before I got this baby, I was stuck in the mud. If you're gonna not use this for h.264, then maybe you know something I don't. Ripbot264 and handbrake are okay for free, but you'll end up with glitches.
I use full pixel, and never quarter pixel. That's just one thing. I love this software, it's the perfect choice for this format, hands down!
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Actually, I think I read
Actually, I think I read somewhere that resizing to that triggers the HD quality at YouTube.perhaps that's the agenda seems the majority here is bootlegged. - Paul Perito
MainConcept Reference
Since you guys are talking about pro tools, have you tried out MainConcept Reference?
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/prosumer-products-4/mainconcept-reference-20373/information-20393.html?L=8
We have to give them a plug, since they're subsidiary of DivX, but it's pretty fast and useful :-)
Do you own Procoder 3?
Do you own the same encoder? Thanks for that information man! I wish that DivX/Main Concepts would focus on the Web Player, and forget about encoders and converts completely, because their encoders/converters are no match for Procoder, and never ever will be. They are out of that competition completely as far as I'm concerned. I understand that it's a business so they probably won't ever ditch their "less than respectable" converters, I am reminded of Tommy Boy,
Tommy: Let's think about this for a sec. Why would somebody put a guarantee on a converter? Hmmm, very interesting.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Go on, I'm listening.
Tommy: Here's the way I see it, Ted. Guy puts a fancy guarantee on a converter 'cause he wants you to feel all warm and toasty inside.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Yeah, makes a man feel good.
Tommy: 'Course it does. Why shouldn't it? Ya figure you put that little converter under your pillow at night, the Guarantee Fairy might come by and leave a quarter, am I right, Ted?
[chuckles until he sees that Ted is not laughing]
Ted Nelson, Customer: [impatiently] What's your point?
Tommy: The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? "Building model airplanes" says the little fairy; well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's knocked up. I've seen it a hundred times.
Ted Nelson, Customer: But why do they put a guarantee on the converter?
Tommy: Because they know all they sold ya was a guaranteed piece of sh*t. That's all it is, isn't it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump on a converter, and mark it guaranteed, I will. I've got spare time. But for now, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about focusing more exclusively on improving the releases of the DivX Plus Web Player...
My way of thinking is that pouring more of their resources into their web player will eventually become much more financially viable. The DivX Plus Web Player is really that superior to anything else FOREVER! I mean absolutely no disrespect to DivX, whom I deeply love. I've added Tommy Boy quotes only to spice up, and add zest to my valid argument.
Oops, I didn't mean this as a reply to myself!
Yup. Welcome to the
Yup. Welcome to the ProCoder 3 world. Their encoder are amongst the top notch in encoder technology. Their encoders are used by many Professional Video Studios (lol I capitalize those three words because they deserve the recognition). But if you didn't configure the output properly, you might end up with errors and grainy videos still. So with this package, you really have to know what you wanted your final output to be. It's Performances versus Quality being put on a stand.
My list of best encoders included, ProCoder, MainConcept, and VSO. I know VSO is more of a DVD Authoring utility for novice encoders but their encoder are extremely powerful.