Video Encoding Speed/Time/Benchmarks

[BrittQ]

I am going to purchase my first mac in Januarary. I plan on doing a decent amount of video work.

I am looking for video encoding times or benchmarks to help me with my decision. Anyone have a link to this type of data?


Feel free to post your specs and results.

[Keebler]

Hi Britt,

What do you plan to encode into? mpeg2? h.264? .mov?
that would help us b/c the format determines which software is used.

ie. i use bitvice to encode mpeg2s on my 2.66 mac pro and a 1.5 hour movie will take about 4.5-5 hours.

cheers,
keebler

[BrittQ]

Thanks Keebler,

I will be doing a variety of types (mainly mpeg2 and h.264). I guess what I want to know is what % performance (video encoding speed) increase is there between a macbook - mbp - and mac pro/quad/octo:)

So I can evaluate cost and performance according to my needs and resources.

I was hoping someone somewhere had done a test amoungst several computers with the same file and software.

But if that doesn't exist, it would help if people could post their details.

[csimon2]

If you are trying to gauge what are the fastest encoders on the mac, the Episode products from Telestream are very efficient and multi-core aware. For MPEG-2, MainConcept is very fast, especially on a quad-core system. BitVice is quite slow, but it does have a good MPEG-2 encoder, moreso for interlaced sources than for progressive sources.

[scamateur]

"barefeats.com" has lots of comparison data of the type I think you are looking for.

[scamateur]

Also, Primate Labs posts tons of results using their benchmarking application "Geekbench" on their site and blog and "Geekbench Result Browser."