How are you getting to that window Guy?
-C

Hi Chris,

In DV Kitchen press the green "+" for Create New Recipe > QuickTime Movie > Video Settings

Man, this little turbo.264HD so far is pretty amazing for $149. I'm impressed. Although for some reason in Compressor nothing comes up in the Batch Monitor during the encode but the little light is glowing on the USB unit itself. Could anyone else confirm this? In other words, there is not a progress bar at all if I create a setting using the QuickTime components and Submit the batch then check the Batch Monitor. The encode does indeed take place and the finished movie does work, I'd just like to know the status of the encode as it is processing.

Confirmed.
Just wait until the red light turns off! :)
-C

It works for me. I added a Setting File Format: QuickTime Export Component Encoder Type: ELgato Turbo.264 HD & can view the progress of the encoding in Batch Monitor

The Elgato just arrived and it breezed thru 26 minutes of DV to h.264 web files in 13 minutes on a MacMini! The 640 size file quality was not as good as Compressor but on my G5 system that would have taken a good 2+ hours, the MacMini I have no idea. The 320 file was very close in quality. The footage was not easy footage to work with at all (dark unevenly lit jazz club, grainy, lots of video level boosting) so I'll try again with better footage later.

I am consistently blown away by the Elgato - still cant believe this is only $150.00.
Hey owners, you all should email tech support and ask for compressor 2.0 support and multi-pass encoding in future updates. I already did ;)

-C

There were some complaints about the 10Mbps bitrate limit. There is the new 1.0.2 software update which ups the limit to 20Mbps, among other nice things.
Here are the changes:
Turbo.264 HD Updates

I am still considering buying it; my only problem is its integration with Compressor 3 and the multipass encoding. I would hate to pay 150 Euros and then get a much faster but lower quality output from Compressor 3.

For those who tried it with Compressor 3, is it possible to use the Frame Controls inside Compressor and still export using the Elgato stick?

Wow. Thanks for the heads up, Cosmin!
Nope, frame controls are controlled in the Elgato window (see previous page for screenshot).

-C

I looked at your screenshot but I don't really see what I was referring to. I would need control over "Output Fields: Progressive", "Deinterlace: Motion adaptive". I have these in Compressor - Frame Controls. Are they in Elgato as well? Maybe they are in that particular screenshot under different names.

Thanks.

Sorry what I mean to say was the picture attached on the first page (there are three attached to one posting- it's the longest photo). It shows all the 3 windows in QuickTime Components for the Elgato. Just look on page one of this posting.
-C