Digital Home Thoughts: TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 Released

"Import, edit, enhance, and encode your videos with the easy-to-use interface preferred by users the world over. Add video clips in practically any format, cut-out unwanted scenes, correct and enhance your video and audio, then encode to the format of your choice using custom settings or templates for popular formats."

TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress is a software "classic" amongst video encoders; the company has long been known for their high-quality, flexible, and powerful video encoding software. I reviewed version 4.0 back in 2008, and gave it high praise for its ability to import almost any video format and crank out a high-quality video in a variety of formats. It's now in version 5.0, and with the addition of multi-track timeline-based editing, this is the biggest change yet. Unlike many other video editing programs on the market - I'm looking at you Adobe Premiere Elements - TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 leverages not only CUDA support, but Intel's new h.264 encoding acceleration built into the new Sandy Bridge CPUs.