“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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Charade
The one I’m shooting now. Or, it may be the worst movie ever.
I choose the movie Die Hard
Godfather
Click! adam sandler was awesome in that
Office Space
Across the Universe is by far my favorite movie ever.. and I don’t really even like musicals haha
Brazil
WALL-E!
No question….Karate Kid.
Pee Wee Hermans Big Adventure
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
Steel Magnolia
Iron Man
History of the World, Part 1 or Blazing Saddles
Star Wars
Seriously people are picking other Star Wars movies over Empire??
I will have to go with Clerks with a budget of $27,575 and The MPAA originally gave Clerks an NC-17 rating, based purely on the film’s explicit dialogue; – it contains no real violence, and no clearly depicted nudity.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Fight CLub
the best movie is the godfather
It’s hard to say, but I guess I’ll have to go with “The Shawshank Redemption”
Best movie of all time? It’s a toss-up between Ishtar and Plan Nine.
The Sure Thing….John Cusack, Anthony Edwards and a young Nicollette Sheridan in a bikini..enough said!
Pulp Fiction
Crank
Looking forward for ‘Crank 2 – High Voltage’
Hitchcock’s Notorious
Animal House
Mary Poppins…..
Austin Powers!! Shaggy, baby (:
The Big Lebowski
An amazing, but often overlooked (because it had the unfortunate luck of coming out the same year as Godfather II) – Chinatown.
The Shawshank Redemption
Princess Bride
Anything else is Inconceivable!
Braveheart
“They may take out lives, but they’ll never take our Freedom!!!”
Star Trek IV: The Wrath of Khan, of course.
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
Withnail & I
The Shawshank Redemption
Fifth Element
Forest Gump.
Bladerunner … nuf said.
Hands down: Boondock Saints!
Citizen Kane, I can’t believe nobody put this yet. It really is, and I actually think so too, not just because AFI says so.
Casablanca
there are other movies than Army of Darkness?
Blade Runner
The Italian Job
The Shawshank Redemption
pulp fiction 😉
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy….
any LOTR fan will tell you that technically all three movies are technically just one. Tolkien originally wrote LOTR as one book, but his publishers made him split it into thirds.
The Graduate, Young Frankenstein and LOTR trilogy (gotta watch em all once you start) all have merit; but Life is Beautiful (but probably better as La Vita e Bella) gotta be mostest and bestest