Quote Originally Posted by litemover
Richard,

Thank you for this very valuable and obviously painstaking information. It must have taken a very long time to compile all of this.

I'm just curious, what was the media you used for this? What clip was it?

Christian Choi
I automated everything, and had the software write out the results to a tab delimited file.
...Im lazy...
then i imported all the information into excel. Wrote some scripts to order everything correctly, then plotted graphs in Deltagraph.
Took about 5 days.
But the results were worth it.
I now have the ability to benchmark anything really quickly.
And I built-in the testing to the software - so you can do it if i tell you where its hidden...

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I used 5 different hi-def 1080p files from Digital juice,
http://www.digitaljuice.com/products...p?cid=1&pvid=5

i converted them using 'Compressor' to 68 different file formats.
Compressor is quite good at doing this- and will do 68 output files - into the correct folders - with different sizes and codecs - from a single click....
http://www.apple.com/dvdstudiopro/compressor.html

i got my copy from buying DVD studio pro.