Elgato Turbo.264 Hardware H.264 HD encoder for Mac Test
[15:14 Fri,7.August 2009 by Thomas Richter]
The encoding H.264/MPEG-4 Elgato accelerator comes in the form of a box, via USB to the computer and iMovie, Final Cut Pro, QuickTime Pro or a standalone version of the software from Elgato is addressed. Komprimioerungsprofile eg for iPhone, iPod, Sony Playstation or YouTube makes it easy to choose the right encoding settings - the source material can be in various formats such as DV, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV or MP4 vorliegen.Im test was mainly the sizes of the encoded videos different (9.2 MB Elegato H.264 vs. 25.8 MB QT H.264 at similar settings, and quality), the encoding time was 26 seconds with only minimally faster than without the Elgato box (33s). The price of the box here is around 130 euros . more infos at bei videoediting.digitalmedianet.com