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JUNE 05, 2003 Squeeze It
Squeeze also has the ability to watch a particular folder for newly added files and automatically compress those for you. This watch folder can be any folder on your local drive, or network. The advantage here is if you have many people editing projects for compression, you can set your Squeeze system to look at a folder on the network and anytime your editors drop a file in the watch folder, Squeeze will begin the compression process. I like this feature a great deal as it saves a lot of transfer times to and from systems. As far as editing goes, Sorenson claims that you can take a file directly from your editing application (like Final Cut Pro) and compress quickly and easily. I decided to check that out, by creating a Final Cut Pro 3 reference movie and dropping it in the Watch Folder. Sure enough, the reference movie (21.6MB) began compressing and generated a great file as a result. If you are a Final Cut Pro 3 user, you now that a reference movie only take a moment to export from the application and is much smaller in size. Had I had to generate a full-uncompressed QuickTime movie for compression, the file would have been 581.8MB in size and would have taken some time to render out and transfer.[an error occurred while processing this directive]
The final feature you will find on both the Mac and PC version of Squeeze is the ability to capture DV directly to your hard drive via FireWire. This is handy for those who don’t have a NLE program, but do have video footage they need to capture and encode. The only problem I have with the DV Capture portion of the application is it doesn’t have device control in the application. You have to do it manually from your deck or camera. While this isn’t that big of deal, it would be something I would like to see addressed in a future release.
Ok, now for the PC side. What are the major differences? Not a lot really. In addition to being able to encode the previously mentioned formats Sorenson Squeeze 3.5 allows you to encode VCD, SVCD, DVD. All three of these formats can be set to large or small (half resolution) and can be encoded in NTSC or PAL format. You also have the ability to encode traditional Mpeg, Windows Media, and Real Media formats. This makes having Sorenson Squeeze 3.5 much more valuable on the PC than the 3.1 version on the Mac if you are trying to encode into multiple formats. Hopefully when the Mac version reaches 3.5 it will include the other formats as well.
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