Stutter Edit plugin by iZotope. Is it compatible with GB11 AU EFFECTS?

Question

http://izotope.com/products/audio/stutteredit/index.asp
Now, you probably know that Stutter Edit will work with Apple Logic.
However the question for a GarageBand 11 user is: Will Stutter Edit be able to send MIDI to Garageband Effects?
Yes, you can send MIDI signals to Garageband's Instruments, but sending MIDI to its AU Effects may be an entirely different matter.
Has anyone (reading this post) used Stutter Edit with Garageband 11?
Please, FACTS ONLY. No guessing.

Answer 1

TMPEG is still top notch and has a sensible price (though it seems their support for BluRay/H.264 has made it less stable and a bit buggy). The pro-version even allows you post-encode profiling and matrix adjustments.... Short of that, ProCoder LE or Sorenson Squeeze of course. Regarding the bitrate discussion: As said before, this depends more than anything else on the type of content. Evenly lit and colored footage, that is not moving too fast will not show much difference between VBR and CBR, that is true. High contrast items with lots of edits and fast moves however will due to the allocation scheme. In general it is better to keep a somewhat tight leash as it enforces the analysis algorithm to act smarter, so e.g. a full 7.5 MBit/sec may result in a uniform visible grid, but 4 Mbit/sec may produce a larger number of smaller P and B frame blocks which are less visible. Our trusted specs are all in the 5Mbit/sec average data rate, with 3.5 for the minimum and 6 as the ceiling (as some of our DVDs have up to 12 foreign language audio tracks that need room). As usual - a short test run with e.g. 2 or 3 minute samples is the only reliable way to find the perfect setting for a given project. No need to feel bad or amateurish about it - even we occasionally still encode many hours worth of footage several times to find the right settings, and we've been producing DVDs ever since 1998... It's perfectly normal.
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