Why We Like It
Because you can convert your Mac videos very quickly and efficiently to an iPod-ready format for your viewing pleasure.

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Summary
The iPod video was built to play videos for your pleasure but it’s sometimes a pain to convert your existing Mac videos or DVDs. But that’s no longer the case with the Elgato Turbo.264 Video Encoder because the Turbo.264 accelerates the time it takes to convert your videos to an iPod-ready format so you can be watching videos on your iPod video in no time at all!

What They Say

...a very well-priced product with performance benefits that are absolutely phenomenal... MacUser, June 2007

Manufacturer's Description
You have a collection of videos on your Mac. But how do you make them iTunes-ready for your iPod or Apple TV? And how do you speed up an export process that can be agonizingly slow? The solution is the Elgato Turbo.264, a blazingly fast and easy-to-use video encoder with a high-performance engine.

Turbo.264 is a powerful video encoder in the form of a compact USB 2.0 stick. Use the included software to convert your Mac videos one at a time or in a batch. The application then drops the converted file(s) into iTunes for you, ready to synch automatically with your iPod or Apple TV.

Alternatively, plug in the Turbo.264 while you use the iPod export command of popular Macintosh video applications. Turbo.264’s hardware encoder jumps in to take over for your Mac’s processor and does the hard work of encoding the videos to an H.264 format. Not only does Turbo.264 help get the job done faster, it frees up your processor for other tasks. Think of it as a "co-processor" for your Mac.

Turbo.264’s software application offers a choice of four presets: high resolution for Apple TV (up to 800x600), high quality iPod (640x480), standard resolution for even quicker exports to iPod (320x240), and Sony PSP (320x180).