“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
How can you pick just one?!?!?! Army of Darkness is great. Raising Arizona, The Matrix, and of course anything I’ve worked on (Ratatoullie, Wall-E, Ice Age 🙂 ).
STAR WARS !!! (all 6 parts 😛 )
tron, but really taxi driver
Raising Arizona by Joel & Ethan Cohen
“The Doctor said her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.”
behind the door
Monty Python…The meaning of Life…
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Bladerunner is the best film.
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben- Hur
I would have to go with The Holy Grail, you can watch it every week and never get tired of it… Maybe I should get a life…
Willy wonka and the chocolate factory
Seven Samurai
Cinema Paradiso.
Hands down.
Army of Darkness
empire strikes back
Half Baked
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Either Top Gun or Forrest Gump…
Kung Pow.
Apocalypse Now
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Most important to me: “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Most important to the film community at large: Citizen Kane
Lord of the Rings
scary movie
I have to say It’s a Wonderful Life. Every year I say I’m not going to watch it again. And every year it sucks me in again. Darn it!
Blazing Saddles…
Garden State !
Crash.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Back to the Future
The pursuit of happyness
I’ll have to go with “What the Bleep Do We Know?” on this one. It’s one of the best, so far 🙂
Armageddon!!!
Bladerunner, hands down. Way ahead of the pack when it was new, and still on top.
Die Hard
Transformers
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Saving Private Ryan
The Godfather !
There’s too many to choose just one… Bladerunner, The Crow, The Matrix, and The Princess Bride all came to mind though…
Stepbrothers
Spies Like Us
It might not be the best ever, but I haven’t seen Lucky Number Sleven mentioned. Pretty awesome flick…
I feel the best all time movie is Star Wars. It allowed me to see the universe in a different way and to let my imagination run wild. It’s one of the reasons why I got into Visual Effects.
The Terminator
The Godfather part 2
The Goonies!!!
Star Wars Episode IV