“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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Kung Fu Panda
For this time of year… Christmas Vacation
Empire Strikes Back
Reservoir Dogs
The Fifth Element
Air Force One
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
The Blues Brothers
Big Lebowski
WALL•E at least for now
Saving Private Ryan
Spaceballs
Fight Club
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Shawshank Redemption
CloverField
Blade Runner.
I don’t know that there can be _one_ best movie of all time. Maybe one best movie of all time in different classes (comedy, sci-fi, action, drama, etc). But if I was going to be stuck with only 1 movie to watch it would have to be…. uh…
The Indiana Jones Trilogy.
It holds up and is just plain fun. We can even add the fourth movie in and I’m all happy.
Only one huh ?
Empire Strikes Back.
The Godfather
Better Off Dead
The Matrix series or the Star Wars movies
godfather
casblanca
warriors
Got a thing for Highlander!
Rat Race.
Fight Club ° Fight Club ° Fight Club ° 😀
Braveheart
Bruce Willis “Armageddon”
Followed by Leonardo DiCaprio “Titanic”
Want to see a great action packed movie pick up “Eagle Eye”
Blade Runner
The English Patient
I have to say, Godfather
Amanece que no es poco
Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart
Army of Darkness
or anything with “Debby Does” in the title would work too.
My Cousin Vinny. Duh!
repo man
Star Wars, Episode IV, the original, where Han shoots first
Pans Labryinth
Gran Torino.
Amelie
Iron Man
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Pukp fiction
For a comedy; Army of Darkness
Everything Else: Star Wars IV – VI
The best movie of all time is: The Usual Suspects
american pie
The only movie that ever got me up out of my chair yelling YEAH!
The Last Castle
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
To Kill a Mockingbird
American President