Encoder Comparison
Submitted by admin on Sun, 08/17/2008 - 14:40.
For all the talk about codecs, CDNs, eyeballs, business models and monetization, the actual rendering of your video file is where the rubber meets the road in the Streaming Video market. In this roundup, I look at the compression capabilities for Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Apple Final Cut Studio. Then I review the primary multi-format batch compression tools, Grass Valley ProCoder, Sorenson Squeeze and Telestream Episode Pro.
My primary focus is on the quality of the output produced by each tool. This includes the quality of the deinterlacing algorithms deployed by the tool and the quality of the Flash, Windows Media and H.264 files produced by each tool.