I received the sales E-mail from Sorenson to upgrade to Squeeze 5 from the version 4.5 for $199. I believe this is too steep of a jump from regular upgrade price of $79.00 to $199.

It doesnt make any sense when there is a steep competition going around with the other compression softwares like Procoder3.0.

Fred

 I wasn't sure I was reading the $199 price right-yikes!

I got Squeeze through Avid when I bought AXP and have upgraded once. Version 5 looks like an improvement worth the upgrade price. I'll wait to hear what users have to say before I upgrade. Leo 

$199 price is for upgrade from version 4.5 to 5.0. Any prior version to 4.5 they have to pay full price of 499.00.

Fred

Maybe I missed something, but it just seems like a few more presets and batch conversions (several at once).  In my estimation $199 is too much for these minor features.

I was in the Squeeze 5 Beta and other than better organization for presets (to an extent) and a really upgly skin for the software I didn't find any improvement or specific reason to upgrade from 4.5.

I haven't reviewed 100% of the new features, but I only use it for batch encoding and I'll be sticking with 4.5 for a while.  I think if they allowed me to use the 4.5 skin on 5.0 I might consider the upgrade ;).

 Well it gets worse - the pricew from Squeeze Compression Suite 4.5 (which is what most Avid users have) is $199 to upgrade Squeeze 5 but you lose a lot of the Pro codecs you had in compression suite. The nearest equivalent is Squeeze 5 Pro which will cost you $299 -- forget about it and hopefully Avid will continue to work with 4.5.7....

Why is "Upgrade Suite 4.5 to Pro 5" so much more expensive on the mac?

Upgrade Suite 4.5 to Pro 5 for Windows -- Shipped CD $ 299.00

Upgrade Suite 4.5 to Pro 5 for Mac -- Shipped CD $ 479.00

Wait, why are all the mac versions more expensive? I'll be sticking with 4.5.7 for quite a while.

Mondo:

 Well it gets worse - the pricew from Squeeze Compression Suite 4.5 (which is what most Avid users have)....

Unfortunately, I am not included in 'most Avid users have". I am Still with 4.3, I took a look at the 4.5 additional features which didn't give me any reason to upgrade. What has V5 to propose? 

I however have upgraded to Procoder 3, slower, but...............

 No upgrade for me either. I will keep using 4.5.7.I will instead use the money to upgrade my second AXP licence to MC.

Heck, we're still using Squeeze version 3! And it still gets the job done.

 Just for my info, Paris, wasn't MCA 1.1.1 buggy ?

That is a pretty steep price for an upgrade.  I was also in the Squeeze 5 beta.  It looked nice, the only real improvement I could see was that is had more image processing filters than the previose versions.  I'm planning to stick with 4.5 for the time being.  Does everything I need it to do for now and seemd just as fast as 5.

 I thought the big deal about this release was the ability to process multiple files and save a lot of time in doing so. I think that is well worth the price for its ability to take advantage of multiple processors. I know that the amount of time I will save with this capability is worth more than $199. See below:

"Sorenson Squeeze 5 dramatically reduces encode times on multi-core machines by allowing users to compress and encode as many as 1.5 files on each of the host computer’s processor cores, enabling a quad-core processor, for example, to process six files simultaneously."

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"Sorenson Squeeze 5 dramatically reduces encode times on multi-core machines by allowing users to compress and encode as many as 1.5 files on each of the host computer’s processor cores, enabling a quad-core processor, for example, to process six files simultaneously."

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I fear this upgrade is only for a few of us, but won't interest everybody . My first concern is QUALITY which is NOT what about Sorenson can be proud..

It really doesn't happen every day to me to have simultaneously 6 files to encode !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can just open 4.5 as many times as you need so if you have 2 or 3 files to encode just open Sorenson that many times and encode those files seperatly at the same time...