Quote: Originally Posted by Icruise For h.264 it must be the baseline profile and 320x240. The bitrate must be below 768kbps (although around 400 is the max you should really us…

Try a few tests and see what you think is the best balance between file size and quality. Or if you don't care about file size, set it to 1500 or 2000.

I encode movies to a medium setting of 1500kbps, maximum pixels - see formula above. I deinterlace everything, it saves some space. I also go for a two pass encode, it makes for su…

AVC=Advanced Video Codec=H.264

I edit and broadcast over cable a weekly Bible study from our Church. When I first got there and started doing them I would edit in FCP and output to miniDV tapes for broadcast. Th…

Quote: Originally Posted by Icruise For h.264 it must be the baseline profile and 320x240. The bitrate must be below 768kbps (although around 400 is the max you should really us…

I've done some experimenting with different h.264 bitrates and it didn't seem like anything over 400 made a huge difference in quality. If you have plenty of free space, by all mea…

I use Handbrake/QuickTimePro, Subtitler-D, TitleLab...to do DVD to dual subtitled iPod videos. I was using ffmpegx at first. I've also used DVDx 2.3 on the pc side of things, alo…

Appleinsider says so: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1368 So, should I wait for it or buy the G5 20" iMac next week? I expect I'll be buying the G5 for a couple of r…

It doesn't make sense to me. By January, there will be very little to no native software for such a machine (well, apart OS X and some Apple software). If I was in the market for a…

Well if you don't really need a new machine now I would wait till MWSF if I were you. It's only 2 months away.

Quote: Originally Posted by Goldfinger Well if you don't really need a new machine now I would wait till MWSF if I were you. It's only 2 months away. Trouble is, I DO need …

Then buy it now. The iMacs were just improved, with tangable upgrades to the processor and video systems. If your evaluations of the existing system meet your needs, then go for …

I think all the G4 products will switch before any of the G5 products do. I think Apple will have all their software running natively when the associated hardware is released. In …

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Games in an emulator may not be so bad, espically if you're coming from an older Mac. Microsoft has the Xbox 360 ready to play 200+ Xbox games…

The iMac makes perfect sense to be the first intel based Mac. It's their high profile consumer machine. The Powerbook would be next I would think because it needs the speed. T…

Quote: Originally Posted by mathew_m The iMac makes perfect sense to be the first intel based Mac. It's their high profile consumer machine. It does not make sense to swit…

Quote: Originally Posted by The Ancient One Trouble is, I DO need a new machine now. Why are you even asking then? If you need it now just buy the best machine for the mon…

Quote: Originally Posted by Pierre B. It does not make sense to switch a G5 machine now. Intel has not yet consumer level 64-bit CPUs and using a 32-bit one, would be a step bac…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Since the iMac doesn't support >4GB RAM anyway, what would the consumer lose by "downgrading" to a 32-bit chip? 64-bit arithmetic. As I…

"No question to put in the iMac enclosure a P4. It will melt down. The next iMac chip (from Intel) should be some 64-bit P-M variant." I just wonder about this. The G5 is supposed…

Quote: Originally Posted by andgarden "No question to put in the iMac enclosure a P4. It will melt down. The next iMac chip (from Intel) should be some 64-bit P-M variant." I j…

Well, Dell can get the P4 into the following: http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Dell_Op...-31420314.html .

Quote: Originally Posted by andgarden Well, Dell can get the P4 into the following: http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Dell_Op...-31420314.html . It does not even comes close. It …

Point taken.