“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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American Beauty ! 🙂
But really it is hard to say what is the best movie .. it depends on a mood , genre and etc..
Transformers
A Beautiful Mind
Lawrence of Arabia
Ok so the lover of all things musical in me wants to say “The Sound of Music”
but the real me will go with
Dances With Wolves.
American History X
(fast and furious) x 4
Blades of glory 🙂
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Toy Story (the 1st)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Goodfellas
“Hackers (’95)” where some students hack into a company to get rid of a virus 🙂
C’était un rendez-vous (1976)
Equilibrium
Las Vegas Parano
Coraline (?)
Baza ludzi umarÅ‚ych (The Depot Of The Dead) (1959). Director – Czeslaw Petelski.
Almost Famous. Best movie EVER. Brings me back to a time… Were I wasn’t even born yet…
Blade Runner, Final Cut.
The Matrix
I want to say ‘Evita’, but I won’t and I’ll say The Matrix.
Rote Sonne
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Gump Fiction
Event Horizon or Sunshine
harry potter
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starship Troopers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Transformers
cassablanca
Real Genius
Animal House!!!
Kwaidan
The Godfather I and II… I don’t mind III but not one of the greatest ever…
Star Wars – A New Hope
Has to be American History X fantastic film!
Transporter
IV A New Hope
the breakfast club
Shortbus
“Safe Men”
but, “Death Bed, The Bed that Eats” is a close 2nd
Blazing Saddles
Godfather
Toy Story
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
while Army of Darkness ranks pretty high (my daughter and I watch it about once a month), My top two are gonna go to The Matrix(original) and Reservoir Dogs. It’s a tough choice but I think I will say The Matrix because I was so blown away with it when I first saw it in the theater.
godfather (I or II, take your pick)
The Godfather…
Bourne Identity
It would have to be the original Star Wars Trilogy (episodes IV, V VI).