Aha perfect, this follows on very nicely from the discussion I was having with Drew here yesterday.
Cool, someone finally took an encoder chip and offered it in a format that works with movies already on our Mac. This is excellent news, and the price doesnt seem too bad. I havent found a proper review yet, but looking at the spec it certainly will seed up your h264 encoding, just so long as you are only encoding to the resolutions & profiles this device supports. I hope it is more flexible than the spec suggests, as it seems to have fairly fixed ideas about what resolutions and h264 types it supports, to match the ipod and apple tv it seems. So it may not be suitable for veryone, but should satisfy the majority. Quite how much faster it is than just doing it with software, will depend on the speed of your computer - in a few years cpus may deliver faster results than this usb stick can, but for most machines I would think the performance gain will be worth it. I'll get one as soon as I can, and report back more information. Certainly based on the price & spec Id say it use a less powerful encoder than the one Drew mntioned yesterday, so Im expecting it wont deliver great results (or maybe any results) with full HD res stuff, but again thats not an issue for most people at the moment. The other issue is whether there is any difference in the quality of footage it delivers - only personal testing or a recent review will reveal this to us. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Rosenzweig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking for reviews of this: > http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvturbo > > Anyone have one? Does it really speed up encoding when using QT Pro or > Final Cut? > -- > Gary Rosenzweig > CleverMedia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
