New Transcode Options: VoltaicHD 2.0 and ClipWrap 2.0

Barry_Green said:
But to be fair, Voltaic's file sizes are much, much smaller than Cineform's. Voltaic recompresses to low-bitrate MPEG-4, Cineform recompresses to high-bitrate wavelet. So they're not doing the exact same job. One inflates the file sizes incredibly, the other recompresses and loses some visual quality.
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Thats exactly what I like about VoltaicHD (I am using the PC version) - the quality with regard to the small filesizes is incredible, and I can edit films on my dualcore laptop even in battery mode (slower harddrive, etc...).
 
I think Neoscene looks MUCH better. Sure, the file sizes are ridiculous, but i would rather deal with that than a quality hit right off the bat to already fragile footage.
 
And that is the exact tradeoff that's being asked for: you can have low cost and small file sizes by using Voltaic, but you won't get as good quality. You can get better quality (Cineform) but the file sizes will be much larger and the program costs more. Pick your preference.
 
Only if it output the file in its original format, without modification (the way ClipWrap 2.0 is supposed to work). But if ti did that, it wouldn't be able to strip out 24p pulldown, etc.
 
I used NeoScene and VoltaicHD on Windows 7 to deinterlace and reverse telecine some GH1 FHD AVCHD footage of people running in a circle indoors. The clip is challenging to the GH1 because there is significant vertical and horizontal motion. The VoltaicHD conversion has no obvious errors. At "high quality", the WMV file is about 2x as large as original MTS file and looks okay. The NeoScene high quality conversion results in an AVI file that is 6.3x as large as the original MTS file and contains obvious transcoding errors in the first 10 seconds of the clip (ghosting).
 
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