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Sorenson announces Squeeze 3 for MPEG-4

updated 10:10 am EST, Mon December 2, 2002


today announced Squeeze 3 for MPEG-4, an update to its video compression software. Squeeze provides a single interface to process, encode and deliver video for the Web, CD, or other devices and is designed to integrate into the video editing and multimedia production workflow; it includes all of Sorenson Media's professional codecs -- Sorenson Video 3 Pro, Sorenson Spark Pro, and Sorenson MPEG-4 Pro. It features support for AAC audio, one-pass and two-Pass VBR compression, batch processing, video and audio filters, DV capture, and adjustable cropping. The application is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2003 as a stand-alone application ($200) or part of the Sorenson Squeeze 3 Compression Suite ($450).


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    How will it affect MPEG4

    How will this affect MPEG4? Is it going to give better compression then whats already there?

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    better I hope

    Apple's MPEG-4 compression is really a typical first generation compression software. Works well, but looks pretty bad. I think the MPEG-4 standard has a great potential. Probably Sorenson (that has a lot of experience with video compression) is gonna compress MPEG-4 better than Apple's current compressor. Someone told me Sorenson 3 was actually based around MPEG-4 video, so they'll know what to do.

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    This is hopefully good!

    Even Cleaner 6 only supports Visual Simple Profile and there is no option for 2-pass anything. I hope they offer an update so that my money did not go to waste. There obviously is no analysis going on since the compression happens relatively quickly and the results pretty much speak for themselves. In order to get any decent quality with Apple MPEG-4 now, I need to crank up the data rate which really defeats the purpose. Put it this way, I can get pretty nice quality 320x240 video via Sorenson 3 with video data rates of 450kbit/sec but I get blotchy c*** using that rate with Apple MPEG-4 since it only seems to support the basic profile. I normally need to move up to 700kbit/sec and higher to get the video quality but I naturally end up with a file size that is much larger than if I had just used Sorenson. Squeeze will now allow getting that quality because of its support for single or 2-pass VBR as well as ISMA Visual Advanced Profile and at least start to put it on more equal footing with DivX 5 (which I believe utilizes some of the advanced profiling).

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