I work in a video house, and we need rapid conversion of files to other formats, often in large batches, as when we're converting an entire season of a sitcom to prepare for subtitles and a DVD release. We don't need something like Episode. We're not making production renders. We just need a nice clean and fast avi or mpg1 out of a Mac or whatever format. This is FAST, and another advantage is that there's a Windows version too. So if the Mac is open, we'll convert with one; if a Windows machine is free, we'll convert it with Windows.

How fast is it? Well, when some production house sends us a DVD recorded without copy protection, it takes real time to capture the video into an avi. And then we might need a mov copy or avi. So it'll take 1x time, plus the additional conversions.

Other converters seem to choke, for instance on H.264. Or they deliver an mpeg 1 with the audio out of sync. Or the other converter does the wmv well, but only with a specific original.

This converter is FAST. Drop in the DVD, and it converted a Video_TS folder of an 1:40 movie in 44 minutes. Put the same DVD in the line and make a wmv -- again, half time. It batches very easily