Jeff Putz
August 31st, 2004, 05:17 PM
Has anyone taken the plunge with Sorenson's new Squeeze 4? The v3 suite was just OK when I gave the trial a whirl, as it didn't allow for metadata or really fine-grained control. This one looks like everything I've been waiting for.
I'm a long time user of Cleaner 5 (Windows), and have happily been able to bill thousands of dollars of encoding time with it. It's an elegant tool, but unfortunately it doesn't do Windows Media 9 and the MPEG is slow and not great in terms of quality. I tried the upgrade to Cleaner XL, but it's very nearly worthless. It's buggy, it doesn't save settings right, the UI is horrible, it doesn't do Sorenson Pro right, and Discreet is clearly leaving it out to dry.
It's probably too early to tell (Squeeze 4 has been out for like two days!), but I'm curious to know if anyone has used it yet.
I'm a long time user of Cleaner 5 (Windows), and have happily been able to bill thousands of dollars of encoding time with it. It's an elegant tool, but unfortunately it doesn't do Windows Media 9 and the MPEG is slow and not great in terms of quality. I tried the upgrade to Cleaner XL, but it's very nearly worthless. It's buggy, it doesn't save settings right, the UI is horrible, it doesn't do Sorenson Pro right, and Discreet is clearly leaving it out to dry.
It's probably too early to tell (Squeeze 4 has been out for like two days!), but I'm curious to know if anyone has used it yet.