“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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“Nobody knows”
The Curious Caseof Benjamin Button
Tie between Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl and Star Wars: A New Hope
well several of my top choices have already been mentioned so for sake of being different I’ll pick:
Repo Man
” I ain’t gonna be no repo man. No way. “
Godfather Trilogy
The Bucket List
The Big Lebowski
“Hey, careful, man, there’s a beverage here! “
City of God
Forest Gump
Zoolander
Back to the Future!
Shogun Assassin has to the greatest movie ever made.
Hot Fuzz
Galaxy Quest
Bladerunner
The best movie of all time was The Shawshank Redemption. By the way, that Turbo.264 is quite cool.
Fight Club !
“Winners will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified”. Are you billionaire or something? It seems that you have a lot of stuff to give away…
Sneakers
o brother where art thou
Equilibrium with Christian Bale
Or Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio
Princess Caribou
5th Element
Fight Club!
Life is Beautiful
i’m torn between Godfather and Brazil.
The Big Lebowski
Pinocchio in Outer Space 1965.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Fight Club is one of those movies you just have to watch at least once a year.
Batman Begins
remember the titans
Princess Bride!
“Stop rhyming, and I mean it! Anyone want a peanut?”
It’s got to be Ferris Bueller’s Day Off!
That movie rocked! How much did everyone want to be him in high school huh? Ferrari’s, hot girlfirneds, and screwing over the principal? It doesn’t get any better than that. And don’t forget the totally milked trampoline landing scene. Classic!
Waiting
Shawshank Redemption
StarWars I
Dark Knight =D
Back To The Future Trilogy
Space Balls, of course
Star Wars – Return of the Jedi
My facebook has it Army of Darkness
Trainspotting
The Fifth Element
Leloo Multipass!
The Wrong Guy
The Wall, a great movie aroud the Pink Floyd’s universe!
High Fidelity
High School Musical 3
Lord of the Rings trilogy
I’ll go with “The Horse In Motion” (1878) as the best because it was the first motion picture ever made, thus creating the industry that has made numerous great films ever since.
Star Wars IV – A New Hope