I not sure what the deal is. Here's my experience with FCP, iMovie,
QT Pro on many Macs: If you encode with Apple's mpeg4 or 3ivx it will
take roughly 1 - 1.5X the length of your video. If you use H.264 it
will take 6 - 10X the length of your video. The difference is
processor (G4 or G5) an
What do you all believe is the fastest video encoder? I'm trying to encode a video podcast and videoblog (I suppose I should be using a compressor for the videoblog), yet every tool I've tested takes an unbelievably long time to encode. I'm talking *hours* to encode 5 minutes of webcam-quality