Alternatives to Compressor 3 ?

I know this has been discussed before, but not in 2008 and after Compressor 3.
There is many alternatives to Compressor:
BitVice, Digigami, MainConcept, Compression Master on the Mac
Wired's or Optibase boards (?)
ProCoder 2 from Canopus, Cinemacraft, or TMPGEnc on PC.
I'd like to know if anyone has better results for MPGE2 encoding
1. on the Mac, witch software, what was better
2. on a PC, same question
Thanks a lot.

David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:
If you need MPEG2 realtime encoding, you are going to buy a PC and a special board. You can research any of those products with a quick google search. You look at your budget, your hardware, and your clients' needs and then buy what you think you can make money with. (I'm not watching the NAB coverage, there may be new products for the Macintosh but I doubt it, the market for MPEG2 encoding has been Windows-based for a decade.)
Just saw this on the cow. Might be worth looking into:
http://www.omni-cinemacraft.com/productscinemacraftencodermp.shtml
However, looks REALLY expensive.
bogiesan
Hi Bogiesan,
I talked to Ray at omni-cinemacraft. He said on an 8 Core Mac Pro each pass is about 9x RT (9 times faster than RT). He said on a 4 Core Mac Pro each pass is about 4x or 5x RT.
He has not set a price but agreed with me that they would have made more money on Cinema Craft if the price had been less. He said he is considering $499 and $799.
A little more info on these two threads I started:
About Cinema Craft on the Compressor forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1485285&tstart=0
And more details on the DVD Studio Pro forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1485286&tstart=0
Best Wishes,
Mitch
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