Canopus ProCoder

alfredsvideo wrote on 5/25/2006, 3:16 PM

Can anyone tell me what advantages I would enjoy if I started using Canopus ProCoder instead of MainConcept. Also what does it cost and where to buy in Oz. Thanks.

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farss wrote on 5/25/2006, 3:28 PM

You can buy it from videoguys.com.au in Melbourne for $749.
I don't think you'll gain much if anything compared to the MC encoder for usual mpeg-2 encoding for DVD. Best way to get good mepg-2 encoding is straight from the Vegas T/L. To do that with Procoder you'd have to frame serve from Vegas.
The batch encoding in Procoder is a nice feature however you can do the same with Vegas and Peachrocks Multirenderer. The later we use very intensely and it's a real money maker for us.
The one thing that the MC encoder sucks at is mpeg-1 for VCD. Get TMPGEnc from Pegasys for that. The mpeg-1 only variant is free.

Bob.