Amber Neely has the news that Apple purchased an AI Video Compression company.
This is of course for iPhones, as the technology is made to cut file sizes in half while prioritizing Faces and Text and de-prioritizing backgrounds.
Better video compression is always to be looked for, but I am assuming this won’t be like ProRES HQ or 4444, but more highly compressed, so likely won’t be a great editing compression.
So I came across this compression software on one of my Premiere Pro forums on Facebook, having not hear of it before. Someone was asking for a batch compressor that could set a file size for all your files and this was recommended.
Shutter Encoder bills itself as a converter designed by Video Editors and it does have some pretty impressive functionality in a very simple interface.
It uses the same FFmpeg engine as the awesome Handbrake software, so you know it has impressive results.
It can trim videos without re-encoding, replace audio, rewrap, merge, subtitle, and do so much more. And unlike Handbrake it does all the important pro formats, it even has file renaming and an ftp program for uploads and downloading of web video, and can open multiple instances of the app. And it is donation ware and is for Mac, Windows, Ubunti and Linux and it has a whole slew of presets you can download.
This is an impressive piece of kit that should be added to every editors arsenal, and please consider donating if you use it professionally.
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The open source video transcoder Handbrake has always been an awesome tool for compressing video, and should be in every video pros arsenal.
It’s lesser known sibling HandBrakePM, which is based on Handbrake (so uses the Handbrake CLI or command line interface) to do batch conversions. And it has been updated to include working on M1 processors. You should have Handbrake already installed for it to work.
You might not think you need this, but someday when you have a bunch of files to compress you will realize just how useful this is.
Worth Checking out their results. I am sure this makes PC users wish they have the full ProRES suite!