I was more interested in what was out there. All of the major sites for discussion of this kind of thing are consumer-oriented (videohelp, cdfreaks, hydrogenaudio, etc.), and most folks only talk about freeware or very cheap stuff... not a lot of discussion about high-end software and hardware.

The consumer-grade software can be quite good enough, but I was wondering what the pros use, as a benchmark for comparison against the consumer-grade stuff. For example, how MUCH better is Procoder than TMGENC? It would be nice to see some comparisons. But if most pro's are using Procoder and other similarly-priced products ($500 and up), they probably won't be touching TMGENC if they want top-quality encoding for the work they get paid for, right?

Thus, I imagine it would be hard to find such a comparison, except by asking here. Is something like Procoder WORTH that much more money, because it's encoding/transcodingis THAT MUCH BETTER? That's what I'm curious about.

I have access to copies of Adobe Premier and Sony Vegas 7, but they seem to be a lot more about editing and less about transcoding. Am I missing something there?

- Tim