BitVice opinions

Steve Strickland

Steve Strickland

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I've just read through a few posts about BitVice and am considering forking out the dough for it. BitVice seems to be a great app. I just wanted to get some opinions on the improvements I would see versus using Compressor 2. The results from Compressor are O.K., but I'm really looking for more. Will I see a noticable difference with BitVice? It's really hard to tell with the watermark the demo slaps on there.
 
First: It's faster.
Faster is better -;)

Depends a bit on your sourcematerial (in my experience).

If the source is good, BitVice is better, but if the source is "bad" BitVice does too much to fix it... (IMHO - others may think differently!)

I do a lot of taking old (60's) TV shows, originating on bad filmstock and scanned to digibeta to DVD's, these days.

On the really crappy images (heavy noise and images jumping a bit from frame to frame) BitVice freaks out.

'Cept from that I really like it.

Gunleik
 
I'm a little curious about it myself too so I'll ask...

Compressing right from the time line, using compressor, where it can read all your cuts, and compression markers, and so forth Vs running a exported quicktime movie through BitVice...

Does the quality hold up in BitVice? Or can BitVice encode from say an XML and read from a cut list then?

cheers.
 
BitVice won't read a cut list. You have to export a QuickTime movie for Bit Vice. I use Bit Vice Pro a lot. It's the same quality as Compressor, it's just a little bit faster than Compressor. That's all. If time is a major issue for you, Bit Vice Pro is what you want.
 
Thanks a lot, guys. If speed is the only major upgrade, then I think I'll stick with Compressor for now. Maybe I'll upgrade to BitVice down the road.
 
gunleik said:
First: It's faster.
Faster is better -;)

Depends a bit on your sourcematerial (in my experience).

If the source is good, BitVice is better, but if the source is "bad" BitVice does too much to fix it... (IMHO - others may think differently!)

I do a lot of taking old (60's) TV shows, originating on bad filmstock and scanned to digibeta to DVD's, these days.

On the really crappy images (heavy noise and images jumping a bit from frame to frame) BitVice freaks out.

'Cept from that I really like it.

Gunleik
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not to hijack, but ya Gun, i hate working with ancient footage, just worked with some old Christmas Cartoons for Xmas season at retail, and they are jumpin everywhere, colors are gone! ugh.

anyways, ya Compressor will do you fine with the speed thing, i wasnt a big fan of bit vice , probably because ive never needed it
 
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