Streaming Media Magazine

Tutorial: H.264 Encoding in Apple Compressor and Adobe Media Encoder

So that’s the overview; now let’s get into customizing your presets for H.264 encoding. If you click on a preset in the Preset column of the Queue section at the top of the interface, the Export ...
Ars Technica

GPU based video encoding on Macs: Does it exist?

I give computationally intensive workloads to my 4-core Woodcrest Xserve Xeon to crunch on, and a few weeks ago, I had it both encode (Handbrake) and tag (iVI Pro) a 39 movie DVD-rip backlog I had to ...
Ars Technica

x264: Encoding 60 FPS produces smaller files than 24 FPS. Why?

I have a TV channel that runs at 720/60fps progressive. Much of the content is 24fps sourced, so I usually do an Inverse Telecine (IVTC) to get get back to 24 FPS, when I compress for storage. Just ...
Streaming Media Magazine

Tutorial: H.264 Encoding in Apple Compressor and Adobe Media Encoder

In most cases, you’ll want to choose Queue and launch Adobe Media Encoder (AME), whether it’s to give you more oversight of the encoding process or to keep the encode from interrupting your editing ...