CustomerQuotes

Customers

"The best MPEG encoder I’ve seen or heard of is MPEG Power Professional—2."

Arvid Bjorn

"In my limited experience I feel that software encoding gives much better results than hardware encoding. I digitize at 360 Kb on the Media 100 and then use the QT files generated to encode straight to MPEG-2 using HEURIS’ software. Because of deadline problems I also had the material encoded in real time straight from beta SP tape (at one of the best places here). It cost more than I paid for the software and the results were a lot worse."

Marc Burkett, Digital Media Arts/Interactive Visual Systems

"We really can’t say enough about this product. It’s so easy to use. We love the built-in templates because they really save a lot of time. And the MPEG Export Engine Pro feature allows us to access the software from the QuickTime 3 Movie Player without even having to open the software. The technical support team is among the best in the industry. They always went the extra mile for us when we had a problem. And the quality is awesome. For long video segments from tape we use Minerva and Sonic Solutions systems, but when we have short sequences that have to look as good as possible we turn to MPEG Power Professional—DVD."

Leroy Radford and Pete MACKenzie, Studio M2K

"I had over 60 GB of still images of Mars that were captured by NASA over the past 30 years. The quality of these images presented some limitations on my animated source video. Using MPEG Power Professional allowed me to encode my video into the best quality MPEG possible, as I could control the bitrates and didn’t have to lay off to tape."

Ralph LaBarge, Alpha DVD

"I needed to pull a lot of this source material in and out of Media Cleaner Pro, so HEURIS’ MPEG Export Engine Pro was a big time saver. I could access MPEG Power Professional from Media Cleaner Pro without having to constantly switch between programs. Also, since MPEG Power Professional is a software codec, we were able to give it pure digital input. This allowed us to create images with much better contrast and richer blacks than would be possible if we used a hardware solution with video inputs. So the Media Cleaner/MPEG Power Professional solution gave us a simpler and better looking result than we could have gotten out of a hardware solution at ten times the price."

Ben Waggoner, Journeyman Digital

"The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia has always had the best looking videos in the interactive encyclopedia field. We don’t compromise on image quality in our own video work, so we were very impressed when Ben Waggoner of Journeyman Digital was able to create low-bit-rate MPEG streams for us that meet our standards. They look great, despite being created from archival sources. That’s really a tribute to Ben’s knowledge and experience, and to using the best tools for the job—including MPEG Power Professional."

Dan Kinoy, Grolier Interactive

"MPEG Power Professional—DVD is the first MPEG encoder I’ve utilized, and it’s very user-friendly. The MPEG files look very good. We’re pleased with the visual quality. We’re especially happy that MPEG Power Professional—DVD is a software product. Since upgrades are frequent and inexpensive, we know that this product will grow along with the needs of our company."
Suzanne Schwilk-Smith, Digital Video Production Manager

"We’ve been concentrating on digital media for several years in order to break the barriers of interactive media. MPEG Power Professional allowed us to create this application the way we imagined it, with moving video, animation, and text. The results were stunning. The museum staff was excited that the breakthrough digital imagery revealed details of the painting that were impossible to see before."
Michael Roper, Botticelli Interactive

"We live and die by our editing suites. When we first started in multimedia, we were spending an enormous amount of time rendering to AVI and Quicktime. Now, with MPEG Power Professional, we set up our encoding tasks during the day and encode whenever the machine is free. And if another critical job comes in, I can just click 'Interrupt' and return to encoding later. You can't believe how much time and money this saves us."
Dave Dipazo, CCD Productions

"This client was really worried about compressing their video. But compressed video was really the only way to get the applications to run on their own computer systems. We used MPEG Power Professional-2 to create some MPEG-2 streams for them. We were really excited about the results, and so was the client. MPEG Power Professional works so well, we even convinced them to use MPEG-1 in some of the kiosks."

Ed Wood, President, Media Cottage

"We needed something to convert training videos from Laser Disc to CD- ROM. We looked at several MPEG encoding products, but MPEG Power Professional was the only one which produced the quality results we required at a price we could accept. We also find the software upgrade path extremely attractive. As a production company, it's easy to get stuck with hardware that is very expensive to update. MPEG Power Professional allows us to purchase the "latest and greatest" as cost effective software upgrades."

Adam Bauser