Compression Master 3.0

With the introduction of Compression Master from Popwire Technology the reliability and speed of server based video encoding is brought to the desktop. With its extensive format support Compression Master converts to and from all common formats such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, 3GPP, Windows Media and Real Media.

Start from one of 80+ supplied templates, or create your own encoding settings from scratch. Group your settings together. Drop a group of multiple encoding settings onto multiple content files, and watch as Compression Master produces the requested output media for all settings and all content files in one swift operation.

Developed from scratch in native OS X code, leveraging years of expertise in video an audio processing, Popwire's codecs are blazingly fast, while delivering unsurpasse quality. Additionally, these codecs give you access to over 45 media formats, such as MPEG2, MPEG4, DV, QuickTime, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and native OS X encoding of Windows Media and Real Media.

Compression Master is built for experts of media mastering who want to focus their skill on mastering, not on repetitive file tasks.

What's new

• Removed registration requirement for demo

• Windows Media v9 export

• Windows Media v9 import

• Real SureStream support

• Optimized speed, quality and bit rate control for MPEG-4

• 2-pass H.263 encoding

• EVRC codec support for 3GPP2

• Streaming support for 3GPP2

• Fractional frame rate filter

• Transcoding between NTSC and PAL sizes

• Transcoding between DV and MPEG-2

• Improved preview

• Support for reference files made by FCP

• Improved GUI

• QCELP audio codec for 3GPP2

• VBR support for MPEG-2

• Disable save in QT encoded files

System Requirements:

• Apple G4 or higher

• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

• QuickTime 6.5 or higher

More information and download trial: www.popwire.com

När det gäller iMovie, som jag tyvärr personligen inte är någon expert på så måste du exportera den som en vanlig quicktimefil. Den filen som finns inbakad i projektet hanterar referenser på ett sätt vi inte stöder. Kortfattat, exportera via QT till ngt mellanformat så funkar det kanon i mastern.

Däremot så har vi bredare formatstöd än Compressor pga att vi inte är bundna av QT på samma sätt. Hjälpte det ngt?

En varning är att den MPEG-4 Video Encodern som finns med i QuickTime är inte bra. Oavsett vad du gör, se till att använda en annan encoder.

Det var ingen prioritet antar jag dom tyckte. Dom har gjort så att vem som hellst kan göra MPEG-4, men samtidigt lämnade dom en marknad öppen för företag som oss att göra mycket bättre encoders. En bra lösning tycker jag.

Decodern dom har gjort är helt ok, speciellt om dom skulle få in stöd för Advanced Simple Profile (b-frames). Det är i princip ett krav för att QT ska hänga med..

Japp, ska bli intressant att se hur dom löst det.. Tyvärr har jag inte haft tid att titta speciellt mkt på Tiger ännu. Får komma senare.

Nu finns Compression Master 3.0.1 ute!

Saxat från versiontracker:
What's new in this version:

• When opening a setting and making changes the edit marker didn't always show right status.

• If you enabled the watermark filter but didn't apply a watermark, viewed the job in the preview and then closed the preview window a crash could occur.

• When opening the watermark filter without applying a watermark, previewing the job may result in a crash.

• Some files encoded with Qdesign couldn't be decoded.

• A crash could occur when: previewing a file, closing the preview, changing the setting, opening the preview, then repeating this over again.

• Automatic update didn't work when reloading settings changed on disc.

• A crash could occur when trying to preview unsupported formats.

• Automatic update didn't work when reloading settings changed on disc.

• A crash could occur when trying to preview unsupported formats.

• Some encodings with Windows Media 9 could create a file with wrong clip length.

• When choosing "save as" for a setting the new name wasn't updated in the settings bar.

• Added support for encoding according to 3GPP R5.

• Added a Windows Media Audio sampling/bitrate guide.

• Support for input of AVID DV formats (requires QuickTime and installed codecs).

• Support for input of Apple DVCPro HD (requires QuickTime and installed codecs).

• Support for file alias as source input.

Happy encoding..