“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 29
[Thank you, we have a winner. This contest is now closed. Congratulations to faithful Macenstein reader Trip!]
On the Twenty-Ninth Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) a Turbo.264 from elgato!
Got an iPod, iPhone, PSP, or Apple TV and want to watch video on it? Then you want the Turbo.264.
The Turbo.264 is a USB hardware video encoder which acts as a co-processor for your Mac, enabling you to quickly convert video (up to 15 times faster!) to the processor-intensive H.264 format without using your Mac’s resources. That means you can let the Turbo handle the heavy lifting compression duties, freeing your Mac’s processor to do more important things, like let you surf Macenstein.
Any Application that uses QuickTime to export video can take advantage of the Turb.264’s speed, including: iMovie, Final Cut, Compressor, Toast Titanium, EyeTV, MPEG StreamClip and others, but the Turbo.264 also comes with an easy “drag and drop†application as well. The application converts video that is not copy-protected one at a time or in a batch, and drops the converted file(s) into iTunes®, where they automatically sync with a connected iPod, Apple TV or iPhone. The Turbo.264 application also encodes video to a YouTube®-friendly format and uploads it to your YouTube account.
Turbo.264 supports DVD chapter markers, and enables you to pick from multiple audio tracks. It can also preserve Dolby Digitalâ„¢ audio when encoding to Apple TV format so you can play back video on your Apple TV with your multi-channel audio sound system. Turbo.264 supports the transcoding of entire transport streams, for example from set top boxes, and automatically detects widescreen DVD content to encode it without black bars.
To enter: Since the Turbo is all about speeding up the encoding of your favorite videos, leave us a comment telling us what is the best movie of all time? (Answers other than Army of Darkness will be reluctantly accepted). Winners will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to all readers world-wide. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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Matrix
Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Azkabam!!! It’s the best for me…
Rear Window
Forrest Gump!
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Monty Python and the holy grail
Dude, Where’s My Car?
Real Genius! It’s great!
2001
Austin Powers! Yearrhh baby!
Well, many good films come to mind, and I nearly wrote 2001: a space odyssey, but I’ll stick with Ensemble, c’est tout 🙂
Forrest Gump.
Blade Runner
The Iron Giant..
Fight Club!
Constant gardener
Evil Dead 2
Return of the Jedi
Can’t decide between LotR and GitS.
Sean of the Dead
Napoleon Dynamite
Well, I’ll go with a classic: The Godfather.
Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu).
16 Candles
Black Rain (Michael Douglas). Great East meets West movie
Recently rewatched the Godfather, so I’ll go with the Godfather trilogy
Fight Club
Psycho
Shawshank Redemption
I can confidently say you guys are all wrong it’s ~ The Boondock Saints
Magnolia
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Forrest Gump
Well, I will go with Madagascar (“Madahooha?!”)… I’m a fan of King Julian 🙂
Gone with the wind!
Die Hard (the first one)..
Spaceballs! I loved it when they ‘combed’ the area!!
The Princess Bride
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. “
Penelope
Children of Men was pretty awesome! In fact, a lot of great movies named, though I still haven’t seen “The Return of the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” named.
But for my entry I’ll say… “A Bridge Too Far”
Jurassic Park
Back to the Future
City of God
WALL•E
Don’t really know about ‘best of all time’. But to me this one’s the best i’d seen during those days when i HAD the time.
The Sixth Sense. Got me slapping my forehead a few times when it turned out the guy was dead himself! 🙂
Hard to decide….
I’ll say Trainspotting
Forrest Gump.
The Big Lebowski
Amelie … or 2046
Pulp FIction