

And there aren't any detailed breakdowns that I've been able to find for it.

But I'd rather not spend the $50 on it without knowing for sure that it can be useful for me.

That said, since Compressor is an Apple product. 2021 Macbook Pro M1 Max vs 10,000 Desktop PC 140,062 views I picked up the brand new 2021 Apple 16' Macbook Pro M1 Max and wanted to compare it to my 10,000 Puget Desktop PC. Handbrake is able to transcode video to a variety of different specifications. I like to stick to first-party tools whenever it's practical for me, so I'd love to start using Compressor if it can fit somewhere into my personal workflow. Final Cut Pro X has a few conversion options, and you can always use another converter like HandBrake. Apples T2 chip in the Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac Pro can greatly speed video encoding, but by how much. HandBrake The open source video transcoder. Video encoding is a small hobby of mine and, while I'm familiar with HandBrake and have been dipping my toes into the far more capable and complicated world of Avisynth, I only recently learned that Apple apparently has its own encoding utility called Compressor. Download the HandBrake Application or Source Code.
