![]() Not jarring, “Aack, my eyes bleed!” artifacts, but noticeable if you look for them. When comparing the videos created with HandBrake, iMovie, and the Turbo.264 HD application, the Turbo videos had more visible artifacts. Regrettably, you pay a price for this speed-image quality. The entire job was accomplished by the Turbo.264 HD in just 5 minutes and 12 seconds on the Mac Pro. With the Mac Pro, importing the clip into iMovie ’09 was similarly slow-6 minutes and 28 seconds to import the clip and then 9 minutes and 36 seconds to export it. ![]() It took another 17 minutes and 5 seconds to export it. It took iMovie ’09 10 minutes and 7 seconds just to import the clip from the camera. On the Mac mini, I was able to convert the test clip in 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Pulling a movie clip from an AVCHD camcorder and converting it to an Apple TV-friendly format was also dramatically faster with the Turbo.264 HD. HandBrake took 57 minutes and 10 seconds. On that Mac the Turbo converted the movie in 35 minutes and 40 seconds. The Mac Pro, with its extra oomph, helped HandBrake, but not enough to best the Turbo’s performance. The unaccelerated HandBrake performed the same job in 2 hours and 13 minutes. On the mini it took 36 minutes and 13 seconds to convert the movie. In the DVD tests, the Turbo.264 HD gave a nice boost to the both the Mac mini and Mac Pro. In regard to speed, the Turbo.264 HD performed admirably in each test. IMovie ’09 ( ) and then employed iMovie’s Share command to save the movie in the large, Apple TV-compatible format. I first used the Turbo.264 HD application to import the clip and convert it to theĪpple TV ( ) format. ![]() Sony HDR-SR11 ( ) AVCHD to each computer and imported a 6 minute and 44 second clip. ![]()
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