Those video encoding stalwarts over at Sorenson today announced the availability of Squeeze 6. It looks to be a whole new product from the ground up. There’s a newer interface, faster encoding, better H.264 quality (yep, the actual Sorenson codec should be dead and gone now) with a new timecode filter, Flash and WMV encoding and easy notifications to both the user and clients. They’ve included a free one year account with their new Sorenson 360 service which is an online review and approval website that looks to be a very easy way for your clients to review and approve edits. This really looks like a nice leap forward. Lots of information and video about Squeeze 6 can be found at the Sorenson Media website.
They also specifically note Avid and Final Cut Pro integration. While Avid users have been used to Squeeze for quite a while (the Avid Media Composer software bundle has long included a Squeeze license) it might be new to a lot of FCP users. It’s definitely worth looking at for those FC Studio users who do lot of compression since … let’s face it … Compressor is a big pile of crap for a lot of users. Between the usual Qmaster and batch submission problems that have always plagued Crapressor, the newest version has seen a lot of users complaining about compression quality. I’ll add to that constant crashing when adding more than 10 or 20 files to a batch at a time. If you can’t set up a large batch then what is a compression application good for? This may be an opportune time for Squeeze 6 to come along. It’s biggest hurdle? The $799 price tag. That’s almost the price of Final Cut Studio itself. Of course if you have to get a lot of compression done, done well and in a timely manner then just maybe ….. I wonder how it handles Canon DSLR H.264 QuickTimes?
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I’am giving the trial a whirl, but 799 is not cheap. But the concept is good. What I don’t like is for the approval functionality to work, you need to pay another $ 99 a month (!) for 2 (!) min videos max, and $ 179 a month for 10 min videos. So far I have not seen a possibility to use a script or a functionality to use the aproval functionality for your own website. You can auto upload to ftp, but than you would still have to write your own html page.
Can’t have it all I guess.
Wow on those 360 prices. I hadn’t looked at them until I saw your comment Errol. That will knock a lot of smaller shops out of using the service. I does say to call for customized options so maybe there’s a cheaper way to go.
Errol,
Please note that every Sorenson Squeeze 6 purchase comes with a complimentary Review & Approval 360 account. Details on the account can be found here: http://www.sorensonmedia.com/video-encoding/
There is no double charge. Should you decide to use Sorenson 360 as your video platform of choice, you can upgrade the complimentary account.
Cheers,
EQ
Once the year’s free sub is done, $179 a month is still quite expensive when a year’s Pro subscription to Vimeo Plus is $59.95 a year…
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