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Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

Turbo.264

Written by DF from Hobe Sound

Jun 28, 2009

During a One on One session, I bought this on the recommendation of my Trainer. It is awesome! I first used it on my 15" Mac Book Pro. While rendering a video, I checked my CPU usage with iStat. My Mac Book Pro wasn't even working hard. I could surf the net, work in iMovie without any problems. I would recommend this product to anyone.

22 of 22 people found this useful

Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

Works as advertised!

Written by JS from Newport Beach

Jul 5, 2009

My only gripe is the software update mechanism, new downloads can only be accessed through the application itself so don't lose your install CD!

9 of 12 people found this useful

Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

Files Are All Out Of Sync

Written by PF from Ventura

Nov 5, 2009

This product is a joke ... most of the files generated using this product have audio that is completely out of sync and are unwatchable. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!

8 of 12 people found this useful

Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

Waste of money

Written by AM from San Jose

Nov 16, 2009

This product does exactly what it says on the box; it makes AppleTV format movies in a very short time. The issue is, they're unwatchable. I've ripped 15 movies in the last 10 hours, and not one of them has the audio in sync with the image.

From a quick google search, it seems that if you're converting AVI/DIVX to MP4, this product, is not for you.

I'll be returning mine to the store later today.

5 of 7 people found this useful

Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

Serious Voice Sync problem - Worthless product

Written by AG from Hong Kong

Oct 2, 2009

This product has serious voice sync problem when converting VOB files to MP4. So far Elgato programmers have not been able to solve this problem; There is no sync problems with converting TS files to MP4, but there is a stability problem with the Elgato software itself. It crashs 40% of the time when I drag the TS files to Elgato software window. Sometimes it simply freezes, and requires a "force quit". At other times, it treats the TS files as an unrecognized format.

3 of 3 people found this useful

Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

Outstanding Product

Written by RH from Chula Vista

Oct 16, 2009

As previous reviews say, the Turbo.264 HD does exactly as advertised. I was able to encode an EyeTV recording of a hour-long TV show in 13 minutes instead of 40 minutes on my Mac Pro Quad 2.66. I highly recommend this to anyone that needs to convert video files fast!

1 of 1 people found this useful

Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

Great speed and decent quality, but....

Written by TH from EGGEDAL

Sep 20, 2009

This gadget is great for some tasks, but not so great for others. If you got a high quality AVCHD HD camera, like for example Sony HDR-TG7VE and you are thinking about using it together with this encoder, forget about it. The end quality is just way too low nomatter what setting you use. (I might be picky, but my eyes sees major loss of quality thats for sure) If you use AVCHD cameras, i recommend storing the clips in their original AVCHD format since AVCHD original format does not get bigger than this gadgets max settings anyway. Also, I recommend the software "RevolverHD" instead for use with AVCHD if you want to burn blu-ray compatible DVDs in a flash. Nevertheless, this gadget is great for all other purposes tho, except from AVCHD.

1 of 1 people found this useful

Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

Works As advertised

Written by AH from Bryant's Cove

Oct 11, 2009

This is a great companion to the Mac and until the time Apple builds a coprocessor like this into new consumer based Mac's I will look to Elgato for products like this.

Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder

I'm Speechless

Written by LP from Scarborough

Sep 30, 2009

WOW, On my Unibody MacBook Pro, this thing converts a 700MB .avi file to AppleTV format at nearly 5 times the speed of Quicktime with no loss in quality whatsoever while keeping my MacBook's CPU at ~50%, and the fans only at 2000rpm. I'd recommend this device for anyone who find themselves converting video. It is well worth the price tag!!

1 of 2 people found this useful