JANNKI MITHAIWALA  simply the best ever! i love it. great job! and great software  
(Version 1.6)

DB  I have been authoring a large number of DVD's from a variety of video sources using FCP and DVDSP. I have consitently encountered problems with the QT compressor and using Compressor itself. Upon purchasing BV 1.6 I am more than impressed. It always works and is rock solid! I can have 5 versions of it running at the same time on the same machine and go about my daily business using any other programs at the same time. I have encoded about 20 or so 30 min clips with great results. Never any problem. Well worth the price. It is a bit slow, but who cares. I put it on at night and will batch encode 5 or 10 clips at a time and when I get up, they are done. I am running this on a DP 1.8, 2 GB of RAM and 10.4.  
(Version 1.6)

G.H. HOVAGIMYAN  I found it to be really good with a clear manual and better than either the quicktime encoder or the dnd studio pro encoder for the Macintosh  
(Version 1.5.2)

GCURNEW  Just ran a test comparing Bitvice 1.5.1 and Compressor (shipped with DVDSP3) running on a dual G5 with 2mb RAM.

First off, Bitvice was noticably slower on my G5...don't know how other folks who claim it's faster are getting those results.

The quality of the compression was flat out horrible...encoding at the same bitrates as Compressor, Bitvice output was soft on all edges, and layered effects that were brought in as backgrounds (footage was shot on green screen and composited) were completely unviewable.

If this were freeware, it would be overpriced...couldn't delete it from my hard drive fast enough...  
(Version 1.5.1)

JANKROD  These guys super blow. My mail isn't valid enough for them either, thats messed up. It is obvious that they dont have there act together.  
(Version 1.5.1)

ANONYMOUS  When I register to receive the download instruction I get a message that says "Please enter a more valid email address!". I *did* enter a valid email address. If your registration is this lame I can just imagine what your software is like. I'll pass on this one, tyvm.  
(Version 1.3.6)

ANONYMOUS  Version 1.3.5 & 1.3.6 crashes after the the first pass, latest version that works for me is 1.3.4.

G5 1.8 Single

Panther

PAL  
(Version 1.3.6)

FRANX  You have to provide a valid email address just to get the demo. Okay, so I do that. Now I get it downloaded and the installer hangs without fail. I go to the site to get support but you have to register to even look for support in their forum.

They certainly make it a pain to use their software.  
(Version 1.3.5)

HANK  Does anyone offer an encoding _service_ (online, or a place like Kinko's)?

I'd like to encode -- better than I can with Apple's software -- a few small files. But I'd rather pay to use the software than own it, it's priced for commercial/business users who can make money with it.

(I found I can do little stereo movies successfully with two firewire cameras and EvoCam v3, on the Powerbook; a couple of   
(Version 1.3.3)

ANONYMOUS  1.3.1 - simply the best encoder out there.  
(Version 1.3.1)

ANONYMOUS  This demo version transforms the previous versions of bitvice into demo mode, throughout the whole network.

There is NO WAY BACK to a fully functional version.   
(Version 1.3.1)

ANONYMOUS  quiero uno  
(Version 1.2.5)