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Stu Sweetow · February 9th, 2007, 10:02 PM

We soon will need to compress for web about 15 hours of lectures. Procoder express is much cheaper than Cleaner. Will it work for us? Any other compression software we should also look at.

Dave Stern · February 10th, 2007, 09:13 AM

what format are you starting with and what format will you end up with?

also look at sorenson squeeze, current version.

I have both procoder (older v1.5 but I like the way it compressed interlaced .. I think they made codec changes to the 2.0 version) and squeeze and more often that not find myself going to squeeze..I really like it - can't exactly explain why, but it's simple to use, gives a fair amount of control and has a good batch mode. but, I think it's more than express, so it depends on what you want to spend.

Graham Risdon · February 10th, 2007, 02:02 PM

I use Cleaner XL and, whilst a bit cumbersome to get used to, allows very flexible encoding to lots of different formats at the same time. It seems to support all codecs installed on your machine... For a cheaper option, take a look at FFMPEG - it's command line driven but very flexible and supports most of the main formats...

Good Luck!

February 9th, 2007, 10:02 PM	#1
Stu Sweetow Tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 2	Procoder or Cleaner We soon will need to compress for web about 15 hours of lectures. Procoder express is much cheaper than Cleaner. Will it work for us? Any other compression software we should also look at.

February 10th, 2007, 09:13 AM	#2
Dave Stern Major Player Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Northern New Jersey Posts: 391	what format are you starting with and what format will you end up with? also look at sorenson squeeze, current version. I have both procoder (older v1.5 but I like the way it compressed interlaced .. I think they made codec changes to the 2.0 version) and squeeze and more often that not find myself going to squeeze..I really like it - can't exactly explain why, but it's simple to use, gives a fair amount of control and has a good batch mode. but, I think it's more than express, so it depends on what you want to spend.

February 10th, 2007, 02:02 PM	#3
Graham Risdon Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 192	I use Cleaner XL and, whilst a bit cumbersome to get used to, allows very flexible encoding to lots of different formats at the same time. It seems to support all codecs installed on your machine... For a cheaper option, take a look at FFMPEG - it's command line driven but very flexible and supports most of the main formats... Good Luck!