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| |  | TV y Video | Home » » » » Codificador de video para Mac "ElGato Turbo.264 HD" | | | | | | | Description: | | Convierte tus archivos de vídeo para reproducirlos en el iPhone y el iPad y obtén acceso inmediato a los vídeos de la videocámara de alta definición de tu Mac. El software de conversión de vídeo es sencillo de utilizar y genera vídeo de calidad superior de hasta 1080p de alta fidelidad. El acelerador de hardware aumenta la velocidad de conversión incluso en el Mac más rápido.
El software de conversión de vídeo Turbo.264 HD es rápido y sencillo de utilizar, y es compatible con prácticamente cualquier archivo de vídeo, incluidos los vídeos descargados y los archivos MKV y AVI. Turbo.264 HD te permitirá ahorrar tiempo, especialmente si utilizas una videocámara de alta definición, ya que podrás previsualizar y cortar los vídeos de forma instantánea antes de convertirlos. Solo tienes que arrastrar y soltar el archivo en la aplicación de software y previsualizar, cortar y combinar múltiples clips de vídeo en un solo vídeo. Turbo.264 HD también puede realizar procesamiento por lotes y detectar automáticamente videocámaras AVCHD. | | | Features: | |
• Obtén acceso inmediato a los vídeos de la videocámara de alta definición de tu Mac
• ElGato Turbo HD acepta cualquier formato que funcione con QuickTime
• Convierte rápidamente cualquier archivo de vídeo para reproducirlo en el iPhone o el iPad
• Genera vídeos de calidad superior de hasta 1080p de alta definición
• Acelera el envío y optimiza la calidad de las imágenes de EyeTV en el iPhone o el iPad
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 0.47 inches | | Product Width:
| 3.35 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.18 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.31 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.75 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.51 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.02 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.31 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 52 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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49 of 50 found the following review helpful:
 Works as advertisedJun 12, 2007
By A. Wu
I use this device primarily to convert the AVI files from my Canon Powershot S3 to H.264 (using a MacBook 1.83GHz Core Duo). I only timed 3 tests but was convinced after seeing conversions with the Turbo.264 that were 5 times faster when compared with QuickTime Pro (using equivalent export settings). In addition to the much quicker conversions, the CPU usage was relatively low (50%) such that the fan didn't kick into high gear like it normally does (and allowed me to continue using the computer without it feeling sluggish).
It also converted a Video_TS folder (only the main 2.5 hr VOB/feature) in about 90 minutes. Although I didn't time it without the Turbo.264, this type of conversion would normally take all night (~8 hrs).
Be sure to check out Elgato's website/FAQ/forums to better understand what you're getting with this device. It doesn't really let you fine tune the export settings but the built-in defaults cover a decent range which worked perfectly for me (edit: the newer software allows more customization).
UPDATE Feb 2008: There are some complaints floating around regarding the conversion speed for certain file formats such as over-the-air HDTV. I rarely use the Turbo.264 to transcode OTA HDTV to H.264 but my own testing shows a 2.1X speed improvement over standard Quicktime or 1.9X faster than Handbrake (using identical output settings). Also, the Turbo.264 will not work with Handbrake (since that program uses something other than the Quicktime components for encoding). Lastly, the Turbo.264 does not currently support multiple-pass encoding, and it cannot output to higher than 800x600 (due to hardware limitations). So you may want to take this into consideration if these things are important to you.
37 of 42 found the following review helpful:
Claus Wolf MyMac.com ReviewAug 25, 2007
By Tim E Robertson
"Publisher MyMac"
My very first review for MyMac.com was for Elgato EyeTV for DTT and today I have another Elgato product for review. It is a product, which you could call a companion product for the EyeTV, but it serves just as much as a companion for your iPod with Video, AppleTV or PSP.
The biggest problem with converting video for use on your portable (or not so portable) device is the sheer time it takes to complete the task. In EyeTV you can schedule a recording and tell it to convert right away in a format suitable for your purposes. I love that feature, but my Mac Mini (1.42GHz G4, 512MB RAM) isn't quite up to the task. Converting a movie I have just recorded can easily take all night. The toll on system performance is so high that you most certainly do not wish to be working at the same time.
The turbo.264 steps up to the plate to address that very issue. it comes in the form of an USB device, roughly 83mm x 30mm x 12 mm in size, and a software application for your Mac. Once the application has been installed it will add itself to your favorite applications, such as EyeTV, iMovie, etc. - as a matter of fact any application that uses QuickTime to encode video.
The website promises speed increases that sounded too good to be true and thus I set out to prove them wrong. Let me just say from the very beginning, I failed miserably. The product is as good as they have announced and in my opinion even better.
I recorded a 1:03h long TV program and then instructed EyeTV to export for iPod. I wanted to give my little Mac Mini the best shot at being quick, so I didn't use any other application, nothing that wasn't involved with the encoding process. It took an exhausting 5 hours and 46 minutes. Now that was what I had expected - it takes for ages.
I deleted the recording, installed the turbo.264 application.
Installation was a breeze - open the disc image, move the application to the provided "Application Folder" alias and then double click the turbo.264 application. It takes you step by step through a quick installation process, which makes sure its encoding ability will sit within EyeTV, iMovie, etc.
After installation, I plugged in the USB device, started the encoding process and went off to do something else for a while. After about quarter of an hour I came back to take a casual glance at my computer screen and I surely couldn't believe my eyes how far the status bar had come.
Talking about the status bar in EyeTV, when the turbo.264 is plugged in it looks a bit different. The text saying "exporting" is red and underneath the status bar in an animated red graphic of bullets indicating that it is working hard.
When the process was finished I was astonished to find that it had merely taken 54 minutes to complete. To you and me that is a time saving of 84.39%. In other words the turbo.264 has encoded at a frame rate considerably higher than the standard PAL signal (25 fps).
To be quite honest, at this point I was worried that the result would be utter rubbish, but I opened the file in iTunes and it wasn't rubbish at all. It was great quality. Something else was quite remarkable the resulting file was smaller as well 566.8MB (without turbo.264) and 556.2MB with turbo.264.
Now I read another review that voiced concerns over the image quality of the output, but to my naked eye I really couldn't see a difference. I am sure that there are people far more sophisticated than me in evaluating video quality, but to me the file just looked great. Obviously one shouldn't ignore the fact that DTT footage isn't the best type of footage to begin with.
I continued looking at task I could have the turbo.264 complete for me. How about exporting a small movie from iMovie, ready for use on the web. Again I saw encoding speeds of below the actual running time.
Not trusting my luck I set EyeTV to record a 30 minutes program that I love to watch on my iPod while being on the road. This time I didn't plug the turbo.264 directly into the USB port, but hooked it up to my USB hub. I went for a walk with the dog and by the time I was back after just under an hour, the completed project was waiting for me in iTunes.
I had prepared lots of statistics for you to look at, but I find that the statistics are not nearly as interesting at the result. They all resulted in the same, the time it took to encode a file to mp4 (h.264) was considerably shorter than the runtime of the video clip.
The application itself wishes to remind you of the speedometer in your car and it counts up the frames per second it is encoding and the estimated time it will take. Once you unplug the USB device the "turbo on/off" indicator will go read and the needle will point to off.
I encoded an unencrypted DVD which came with PC Pro many years ago. It worked perfectly and very fast as well. It was easy to select the the VOB file and I had it read directly from DVD for the encoding.
I followed with a task that would represent my main use for the turbo.264. I took a DVD I had created with my Philips HDD/DVD PVR and had it encoded. The task was completed very quickly, unfortunately the software got its estimation wrong. The task of encoding a one hour TV show was to take 11 hours, plus... The task completed in under an hour, so it is merely a display problem and it seems as if we were looking at a problem created by my PVR rather than the application.
A slightly more annoying problem is what turbo.264 will do with DVDs I created with my PVR that contain two or more movies -it will encode the first and then stop right there and do nothing. I have reported this behavior to Elgato, but upon further tests with other "home made" DVDs I come to the conclusion that my PVR does non-standard-compliant DVDs and thus I will not old these problem against the turbo.264..
Of course I had to try what would happen, if I was to try to convert a commercial DVD. and as one would have expected nothing did happen. Unfortunately the software didn't just tell me to bugger off and tried to get started - showed 000fps and 999 hours remaining, I was forced to "force quit" the application. But then again it isn't designed for this particular purpose. So I am not too unhappy, though I would have hoped for a warning message.
My contact at Elgato had informed me that they were working on an enhanced version of the software and let me take a "beta peak" and so I did. First thing I noticed is that it would open the Video_TS folder much quicker and it gave me a lovely warning message. Way to go elgato!
I am being told that this new version will also allow you to pick the language track on a DVD, but unfortunately I do not have any unencrypted DVDs that would allow me to test that feature.
In addition to exporting to iPod with Video, there are settings for Apple TV and PSP and from what I can tell those tests are just as favorable as my other tests.
Conclusion:
I am totally amazed by this USB device, which to me is worth every cent. It truly gives my Mac Mini a type of power that I just could never have even started to imagine and I dread the moment where I have to return it to Elgato. Probably it will not take a week, before I buy my own copy.
The integration with EyeTV and all the other applications I tested was superb. The software tool that comes with the turbo.264 is functional and does it job well. It doesn't like the "PVR DVDs" I create, but it encodes single movie PVR DVDs flawlessly.
The speed increase advertised by Elgato was measured with a fairly high powered machine to begin with and I just couldn't imagine to benefit quite as much as I did. Obviously I cannot directly compare my measurements with those of Elgato. We are looking at two very different test environments and video clips for the encoding. Still I believe that encoding times smaller than video runtimes are remarkable. When actually using the computer moderately (eMail + Web Browsing) the frames per second encoded were still remarkable at 23fps.
There is only one conclusion one can have about this tool - it is fantastic without a doubt and despite the minor flaw I found I think I am 100% justified in awarding the following rating: MyMac.com Rating: 5 out of 5
System Requirement:
Mac with G4, G5 or Intel Core Processor, 512 MB or RAM, USB 2.0 port
Mac OS X 10.4 (or later)
QuickTime 7.1.5; iTunes 7.1.1
Universal Binary
http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=2985
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Works GreatJun 28, 2007
By Jerry
"gr8ful-tx"
Ever since getting an Apple TV, I have been converting lots of iMovie movies to Apple TV encoding. The Elgato Turbo.264 works great - it appears as another selection from the Export options within iMovie. On my iMac G5 (2.0 GHz), a 90min iMovie took just under 2hrs to encode using Elgato compared to 10hrs otherwise. The picture quality is equivalent to encodings I did previously without it.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Does not work well for AppleTVAug 24, 2008
By E. Martinez
I got this for exporting eyeTV recording to appleTV format and first time a try at the end of the process it give an error message and does not create a file. After checking the web site it turns out it is a know bug. When it works it encodes video in a 1to1 speed (one hour recording takes one hour to encode in a mac mini). I am disappointed because my main use was Apple TV encoding. My other use is iPod encoding and that appears to work ok.
When using Turbo.264, some exports to the Apple TV format may fail
Solution
When using Turbo.264, some exports to the Apple TV format may fail before completing.
If you are exporting from within EyeTV, the error reported will be something like 0xE0004051 or 0xE00002E0. You may also see a blank, grey window with the Turbo.264 icon in one corner.
If you are exporting using the Turbo.264 application, version 1.2, the error will be something like -536870176.
In either case, Turbo.264 is prevented from completing the export, due to an issue with the firmware inside the unit. This issue is particular to the Apple TV export preset.
This issue is being researched with the assistance of the hardware manufacturer, and once a solution is found, a software update to Turbo.264 should resolve the problem.
Until then, there are a few workarounds you can use:
1) Export using a setting other than "Apple TV", like "iPod High".
2) Customize your Apple TV export, reducing the resolution by 16 pixels in both directions.
3) Unplug and replug the Turbo.264 before starting the export.
Any of these three steps should allow the export to complete.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that this error has caused.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Good for Apple G4 owners with video capable iPods or an iPhoneOct 21, 2007
By The Crayola Kid
I picked this up because my MDD dual 867GHz G4 (circa 2002) was particularly slow at converting video to an iPod video format, either MP4 or H.264. What I had hoped was that it would at least match the conversion to H.264 I get on a dual 2.0GHz G5 and I was pleased to discover it was even a bit faster. Computers faster than a 1.8GHz Core Duo will likely be faster than the stick, but for computers where it takes over 5 hours for a 2hr film, it's worth it. The box packaging was really classy, a lot like an iPod. The stick itself is well-made with a simply designed high quality plastic shell, quite unlike most typical plastic USB dongles.
What you need to know:
Conversions to H.264 with the Turbo stick will happen at about 30fps, or close to that on older G4 computers. This translates to about 1 to 2 hours per long-format (2hr) video.
Over the 2007 summer, ElGato was good about releasing a software udpate that included a new preset for the iPhone. The software that's included can do batches of video and even convert DVDs (non-DRM only), but you can also use the stick from any Quicktime Export capable application. For example, you can export from iMovie using the stick's preset Quicktime formats. Essentially, the stick works with any format that Quicktime can open so you can convert to an iPod, Apple TV, or iPhone preset that the ElGato software installs. For converting from MPG, DivX, etc, I found that installing the freeware Perian made the Quicktime and the Turbo.264 much more comaptible with file types.
The Turbo.264 needs to be plugged into a USB 2.0 slot that has power, so a non-powered hub like a keyboard USB slot won't do the trick. Also, if it's plugged into a hub, make sure that no USB 1.1 or older devices are plugged in at the same time, just in case the hub defaults all connections to USB 1.1 speeds. This stick really needs the USB 2.0 through-put to achieve good conversion frame rate speeds.
Overall, it added the comfort of iTunes ready video conversion functionality to my older mac that will keep it in use for a while longer with the latest iPhone, 3G iPod Nano, iPod Touch and Apple TV. If your computer is on the specification threshold of being able to run OS X 10.4 or 10.5, this is probably something you could use.
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