On my 8-core Mac Pro with an ATI 5870 card, QuickTime H.264 encoding speeds were comparable to Apple Compressor 4 with similar encoding settings and formats. If you have a CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPU card, then the encoding of AVC/H.264 content is accelerated. This permits the playback from that site to throttle performance by shifting between the files of these different date rates. In this process, a set of different files with low to high data rates are encoded and grouped into a folder for upload. Most smaller users never encounter that, but it’s a requirement for many large enterprise-grade video sites. One big feature of Squeeze is support for adaptive bitrate encoding. Publishing to the web or disc burning is part of the Squeeze workflow, so your presets can include target publishing destinations, like a YouTube channel or your Sorenson 360 account. There is a large set of audio and video filters, which can be integrated into any preset, including VST audio filters already installed on your computer. Of course, you can modify existing presets, create custom presets from scratch and save the ones you use most often as favorites.

On the other hand, if you want to burn DVDs, then getting there via the workflow tab makes the most sense. If you want a specific preset, then it’s easier to find that in the format tab. The Sorenson Squeeze 9 presets are built around formats and workflows for easy access. All Squeeze purchasers get 5GB of free cloud storage with Sorenson 360, which they may use for private review and approval with clients or as a place to host videos that they’d like to embed into their own web sites. As before, Squeeze supports import from files or camera devices and you can set up watch folders. These will be encoded together with the additional video clip(s) embedded into the same file – no editing required. This lets you attach an additional file, like a branding message, to the beginning and/or end of your video. Another new feature is pre/post-roll stitching.

New for Squeeze 9 is an update of the user interface, HTML5 optimization, faster encoding and closed caption support. The difference between Standard and Pro is that Squeeze 9 Pro supports the encoding of Avid DNxHD and Apple ProRes (Mac only) codecs. Sorenson Squeeze 9 Standard and Pro are Mac and Windows desktop applications, while Premium is designed to run on Windows servers. It’s now in the ninth generation of the software with standard, pro and premium versions. Sorenson Media’s Squeeze encoder has always been at the top of the market for encoding features and quality.

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