Re: Mpeg streamclip vs Compressor by Craig Seeman on Mar 3, 2012 at 3:41:01 pm
It really depends on your needs.
Compressor can cluster cores and/or computers for example. You can create Droplets as well.
As nifty as MPEGStreamclip is, it's progress have been very slow. 1.9.2 is over 3 years old and 1.9.3 beta is nearly a year old. I'm not sure if it's dead but it may not keep up with the development of current operating systems.
Neither compare to Telestream Episode or Sorenson Squeeze though.
Re: Mpeg streamclip vs Compressor by Andrew Stuckey on Mar 5, 2012 at 11:32:14 am
From Craig's experience it sounds like MPEG Streamclip won't give you the absolute best quality encodes on the market but considering it's FREE it pushes out very decent results.
I guess it depends on your needs/budget.
Telestream Episode will set you back $500 and Sorenson Squeeze, $800.
Re: Mpeg streamclip vs Compressor by Andrew Stuckey on Mar 5, 2012 at 11:21:23 am
Good experiences with MPEG Streamclip.
Biggest strengths I've seen...
- Quick (so much faster than Compressor even when run through several virtual clusters)
- Great quality (depending on the codec and format used)
- Accepts many input formats
- Supports many output formats
- Can install additional codecs such as x264 (highly recommended for great quality H264/mp4 encoding).
The only caution I would note is that development can be slow. So it might lag behind more progressive programs. (Although they did release a new beta version in August 2011.)
I haven't tried everything with it by all means. I'm sure there's plenty it can't do, but a big thumbs up from me so far. :D
Re: Mpeg streamclip vs Compressor by Will Sanchez on Dec 20, 2012 at 8:15:18 pm
how do you install x264 into Mpeg? I do <3 Mpeg
I started using it to create HD videos. I discovered if you use multi-pass Mpeg goes into an infinite loop. This is a video 29 minutes long exported from FCP7 reference QT 1080i file. Single-pass looks great - https://vimeo.com/55735778
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