Still Looking for Alternatives to MPEG Streamclip

It's been a while since the sun set on MPEG StreamClip but there's been nothing quite like it to emerge. I wonder why a product manager at Adobe, Avid, Grass Valley or Apple never made a deal to acquire the software and bundle it with their NLEs. At the end of every project everyone wants great-looking, lightwaight files in an instant, and It seems like a lost opportunity. Technical details matter when creating deliverables for clients and one thing I really liked about MPEG Streamclip is that it reduced file size without visible visual compromise. That meant less bandwidth to transmit, less space to store assets, and it seems, with the settings I commonly used that it was a media player-friendly format as well. I almost always exported QuickTime ProRes or H.264 movie files. Perhaps it was the fact that StreamClip could leverage all the installed codecs on a system, but I liked that capability. That meant one less proprietary roadblock to navigate.

I would like to hear what people think is the best replacement, especially as concerns the smaller file sizes. You'd think the big players would have bested MPEG Streamclip by now, and in some ways they have, but IL'm not so sure about whether it's core functionality has been surpassed.

Ultimately, technology will continue to eveolve, and point being that MPEG StreamClip was pretty darn good software and when it went away it took some time before we found other productw we wanted to use in it's absence. Better gone but not forgotten than gone and forgotten.