Re:Video? (Score 1)

I encode a lot of video to QuickTime 7 on a dual 1.2 G4. I have found that H.264 takes an extremely long time when you encode to the highest quality. At the medium quality setting, it takes nearly half the time it would take at the higher quality. But even at medium, the quality is still subperb. I have found I can compress a 6:30 segment at medium quality to about 17 Mb, and maintain native 720x362 (letterbox) resolution.

I encoded a 1 hr 40 min feature film, at medium quality to 300Mb at native 720x362 (letterbox) resolution. An Mp4 version at the same resolution was over 600 Mb.