Are Newer Versions of Compressor Any Faster?

Are you running this on a G5?

If so, a current MacPro will certainly run the current version of Compressor faster. (It is intel only now).

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JRIH wrote:
ICompressor is really slow.
Are there any other Compressor-type programs that are any better?

that all depends on what you're trying to do, which you don't really explain except that your output is MPEG2. We all used Compressor for several years on G3 G4, and G5 Macs. Worked fine within the limitations of the hardware. To get around the limitations, we set up farms or we exported FCP projects to a more DVD-friendly format before hitting DVDSP or Compressor.

bogiesan

JRIH wrote:
ICompressor is really slow.
Are there any other Compressor-type programs that are any better?

that all depends on what you're trying to do, which you don't really explain except that your output is MPEG2. We all used Compressor for several years on G3 G4, and G5 Macs. Worked fine within the limitations of the hardware. To get around the limitations, we set up farms or we exported FCP projects to a more DVD-friendly format before hitting DVDSP or Compressor.

bogiesan

Research MP4, that;s your problem. You must decompress MP4, AVCHD, or H.264 before you can compress to MPEG2.

Waste of time to do it in Compressor but the media must be created somehow.

bogiesan.