I’ve been using QT Pro to encode my videos to h264 for some time now and last night, in preparation for posting the next story, I decided to give Adobe Media Encoder CS4 a shot. AME takes some getting used to; for rendering and transcoding multiple files, hey it’s awesome, but when you just need to render one file it’s a pain the butt. Anyway, I created a h264 file of my latest video and it came out much larger than expected – 176MB for a 7min 34sec file. Not bad you think? Compared to a 106MB file size for a 9min video, transcoded via QT Pro, you begin to wonder what’s going on. As an additional test, I transcoded the same 7min 34sec file using QT Pro and the file size came out to 83MB… less than half the file size of the AME transcode. Is QT Pro more efficient? I’m not sure but the settings for both programs was as nearly identical as I could make them.

Story 126 is out for review so with any luck it should be posted by the end of the week…

And, has anyone noticed that my blog pictures no longer have captions? Once again, the culprit is upgrade incompatibility.