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[tarkken]

Hi everyone.  I've heard some promising news today about Sorenson Squeeze 4.5 (speed/quality), etc.  I've been a longtime user of ProCoder2 with success using it and DVDitProHD.

Perhaps I'm looking to complicate my life more - but I wanted to see if 4.5 was truly delivering the speed results, the quality results, and a bulletproof (subjective term) relationship with DVDitProHD.

I've seen a couple of posts, but I didn't know if there were updated experiences, etc.


Would you buy it - would you use it - any known issues, pitfalls, advice?

Sounds like an exciting option to add to a bag of tricks...

Thanks.

[planetweckesser]

Hi everyone.  I've heard some promising news today about Sorenson Squeeze 4.5 (speed/quality), etc.  I've been a longtime user of ProCoder2 with success using it and DVDitProHD.

Perhaps I'm looking to complicate my life more - but I wanted to see if 4.5 was truly delivering the speed results, the quality results, and a bulletproof (subjective term) relationship with DVDitProHD.

I've seen a couple of posts, but I didn't know if there were updated experiences, etc.
Would you buy it - would you use it - any known issues, pitfalls, advice?

Sounds like an exciting option to add to a bag of tricks...

Thanks.

Download the trial version and take it on a test ride (fully functional -puts a watermark on the video). I started playing around with it just prior to taking delivery on Procoder 3. It is very easy to use - have not had a file so far that has needed reencoding in DVDit Pro HD. What sold me on it was the encoding times - a 69 minute project going from .m2t to .m2v (elementary stream) at 1920 X 1080, VBR 2 pass with min of 20000,ave of 24000 and max of 30000 encoded in about 4 hours. The same file in Procoder 3 took 9 hours - this was on a dual core, dual xeon 3.0 GHz (woodcrest 5160) workstation with 3TB video drives in RAID 0.

I understand from shueardm that the encoding times in Procoder 3 are significantly longer than Procoder 2.

[tarkken]

Download the trial version and take it on a test ride (fully functional -puts a watermark on the video). I started playing around with it just prior to taking delivery on Procoder 3. It is very easy to use - have not had a file so far that has needed reencoding in DVDit Pro HD. What sold me on it was the encoding times - a 69 minute project going from .m2t to .m2v (elementary stream) at 1920 X 1080, VBR 2 pass with min of 20000,ave of 24000 and max of 30000 encoded in about 4 hours. The same file in Procoder 3 took 9 hours - this was on a dual core, dual xeon 3.0 GHz (woodcrest 5160) workstation with 3TB video drives in RAID 0.

I understand from shueardm that the encoding times in Procoder 3 are significantly longer than Procoder 2.

Thank you sir - I've always enjoyed, appreciated and learned from your posts.  How did you like the quality?  I understand it's at least the same, if not better.

How is the licensing situation?  I'd love to lose this pesky ProCoder dongle...  

[shueardm]

I've spent the last couple of days encoding for blu ray's comparing Squeeze 4.5, ProCoder 3, ProCoder 2 and Autodesk Cleaner XL 1.5.

I used the same source, bit rates, 2 pass VBR and maximum quality on all of the softwares and this is my conclusion.

Sorenson squeeze is the fastest by far and is just as good in quality. It is more than twice as fast as ProCoder 2/3 using multiple cores.
ProCoder 2/3 has mastering quality setting but even using the one down from that (highest quality) , Squeeze is still twice as fast.

The slower encoding of ProCoder 3 compared to Procoder 2 was for HD source to SD target only. When using HD source and HD target both ( 2 and 3) were the same speed.

Edited by shueardm, 07 May 2007 - 06:07 PM.