| Elgato Turbo.264 - Video H.264 (MP4) Encoder Hardware 10020500 | 
| Brand: Elgato
Category: CE
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Rating:  51 reviews
Format: CD
Platform: Mac
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.5 x 1
MPN: 10020500
Model: 10020500
UPC: 852095000676
EAN: 0852095000676
ASIN: B000PCVIEU
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Product Description
H.264 Video Encoder Hardware. It accelerates video exports to iPOD and Apple TV formats and comes with optional software to convert video files to H.264(.mp4) format.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 51
 Definitely Works As Advertised July 13, 2010
G. YEO (Singapore)
Don't believe the naysayers. We use this for converting production work on 20 - 60 minute clips and there seem to be no issues. No crashes, no audio drifts or visual artifacts. nothing. Just speedy conversions. I also use handbrake and visualhub on the mac. This may be superceded by faster technology in the long run, but in the present workflow of a G5 quadcore, it definitely still is useful.
 Avoid January 16, 2010
Mr. MAC (GA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This poduct is gabage perid....
the video quality is worse than an mpeg-4 video, elgato has no shame putting out this poor of a product.
I for one will never buy another elgato product.
Audio is Always OUT OF SYNC November 6, 2009
J. Cross (SF, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT ... files generated have horribly out of sync audio and El Gato has no fix for it. Do your own research and you will find out that this product does not work as advertised.
 Works fine, has some problems October 6, 2009
Christopher Baier (Charlotte, NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been using my Turbo.264 for about a year. I got it when I had my iMac G5 and it really made conversion faster. Now that I have an Duo Core iMac, I don't really *need* this, because conversion seems to be just as fast on without this device, however it offloads the processing from my Mac and provides some additional features.
I use this for converting video to use on my AppleTV and iPhone. It does a good job. The quality is good. I have not experienced any of the quality problems other users have encountered. I am converting to 720x480, 29fps, ~1500 bitrate (so the same file plays on both my AppleTV and iPhone).
One of the benefits the Turbo.264 provides is that it will convert the closed captioning to a format that AppleTV can use. (It converts the closed captioning, not the subtitles. The captioning is like what you get when you turn on captions via your TV. The subtitles are the foreign languages included on the DVD that you access via the special features on the DVD).
However, one BIG FLAW of this device (or more accurately, the software) is that it OFTEN will not see the various episodes on a DVD containing multiple episodes (like a TV series). It will see all the episodes as one long movie. Instead of seeing 5 30-minute episodes, it will see one 2.5-hour movie. This seems like a very basic flaw. So for these DVDs, I cannot use Turbo.264. I don't understand why this is happening, because DVD players and other DVD software can see the episodes fine. It is only the Turbo software that can't see them.
 Quick and dirty conversion August 3, 2009
Printer User (Dayton, OH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Potential buyers are advised to check out the numerous reviews and especially the end-user support forum at Elgato's web site that report poor quality, fuzzy video produced by this device.
If you want quick encoding, you will get it -- but at a steep loss in quality. That's a shame for an encoding device at the price Elgato asks for the Turbo.264 and the Turbo.264HD. Handbrake produces much higher quality video and while it is slower, it is also free.
Elgato needs to make some serious improvements in video quality.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 51
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