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Blast your videos into iTunes®
Turbo.264 is a powerful hardware encoding device that quickly converts any video to the advanced H.264 (MPEG-4) format without using your Mac’s resources. Work, watch TV and surf the web while you encode video with no reduction in processing speed. Turbo.264 supports many third-party Mac video applications as well as EyeTV.
Turbo.264 also comes with its own software to quickly drop any video into iTunes to sync with an iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.
Unique Features
- Quickly and easily export content to iPhone™, iPod®, Apple TV® and PSP®
- Free up your Mac for other tasks while encoding
- Convert videos to superior quality H.264 files
- Accelerate EyeTV's Wi-Fi Access feature
- Prepare and upload videos to YouTube™
- Preserve Multi-channel Dolby Digital™ sound for playback on an Apple TV®
- Use Turbo.264 for hardware-based live encoding in QuickTime Broadcaster™
- Reviews
"If watching video wherever and whenever you want is the Shangri La of entertainment, then Elgato laid down the commuter rail to paradise with its Turbo.264... Elgato wins this Editor's Choice award for noticing early that a fast, easy-to-use video conversion dongle is only going to get more an more useful over time."
The Mac Observer
2008 Editor's Choice Award
The Mac Observer
2008 Editor's Choice Award
"Every once and a while a product comes along that doesn't just perform well, but, due to its expert engineering and refined user experience, is an actual joy to use. With the Turbo.264, Elgato has seemingly done the improbable: created a sexy hardware video encoder."
Videomaker Magazine
Videomaker Magazine
“Elgato’s Turbo.264 video compression co-processor frees up your Mac’s CPU, speeds up your video conversions, and provides an inexpensive way to get your video into H.264 format... for a $100 gadget, it can save you a lot of time and let you focus on the most important part of video: watching and enjoying it in the place you choose.”
MacDevCenter.com (O'Reilly Network)
MacDevCenter.com (O'Reilly Network)
"If you do more than an occasional export of video to an iPod or Apple TV, and find yourself frustrated by how long the conversions take, the Turbo.264 could be just the ticket."
The Mac Observer, USA
The Mac Observer, USA
“Keep in mind that QuickTime conversion to h.264 is notoriously slow. Handbrake and MPEG Streamclip provide much faster results but the off-loaded t.264 encoder beat them handily and freed up a large chunk of the main Mac’s CPU cycles.”
TUAW, USA
TUAW, USA
"Turbo.264 pumps out iPod, PSP and Apple TV-friendly video in a fraction of the time your Mac can. If you use one of these devices for video, Turbo.264 is a must-have.”
The Register Hardware, UK
The Register Hardware, UK
“If you do anything more than casual video encoding for your devices and have work to do while you encode, then this is a definite must consider.”
Apple Matters, USA
Apple Matters, USA
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