The render queue, the per-minute meter, the upload model, the lone box — side by side, with every competitor's real strengths printed. Padded comparisons convince nobody. These aren't padded.
One workstation, one queue, one export at a time — no chunking, no fleet, no stitching. Includes the dailies case study: the evening that becomes arithmetic.
Flat fleet pricing on hardware you own versus the cloud meter — with the arithmetic at AWS's own published rates, and the cases where the meter honestly wins.
The best free single-machine transcoder there is, honestly credited — and the fork that appears at the second machine and the first mezzanine deliverable.
A managed SaaS with the category's best trust paperwork versus a fleet your footage never has to leave the building to reach.
Two on-premises distributed transcoders that share a thesis and split on audience: open-source cluster infrastructure versus a finished post-production pipeline.
Install the master, join a worker, submit a job. Self-hosted and free to run on hardware you already own.