On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Alain Boisvert wrote:
I don't want to start a debate.
Heh
Since I am on a limited budget. If I can only get one of these
software (Cleaner / Squeeze).
Which should it be?
Absolutely depends on the breadth/depth of the features you need, as
well as the troubles and nonsense you're willing to put up with.
Cleaner has a far wider range of features and functionality, including
many more preprocessing options and input/output formats - but Cleaner
is also quite shakey in many uses these days, so if you'll be basing
purchasing on any specific features I'd be sure to ask about those
directly to verify they work as-advertised. Personally, I have a
love-hate relationship with Cleaner, though I still find it
indispensable and exceedingly useful for many things.
Squeeze is in many ways a far simpler product, which also means it
tends to work fine doing anything you ask it to do. It doesn't have the
flexibility Cleaner has, nor all the options, but if you're simply
wanting to produce good looking Quicktime/MPEG-4 encodes from good
looking source it should be excellent for almost anyone.
Given the same inputs, the same encoding options, and no filtering
(since Cleaner and Squeeze have different filter sets), you should get
virtually identical results from the two.
I plan to use this mostly to help me get great quality versus size
(but quality is the most important).
I won't use this to prepare QT for the web.
What will you be using it for then?
Best,
Roger Howard
Senior Digital Media Specialist
The J. Paul Getty Museum
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