Sorenson Squeeze is a compression suite for video. It encodes to multiple formats including QuickTime

QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...

, Windows Media

Windows Media

Windows Media is a multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. It consists of a software development kit with several application programming interfaces and a number of prebuilt technologies, and is the replacement of NetShow technologies.The Windows Media SDK...

, Flash Video, Silverlight, WebM

WebM

WebM is an audio-video format designed to provide a royalty-free, open video compression format for use with HTML5 video. The project's development is sponsored by Google....

 & WMV. It uses multiple codec

Codec

A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of "compressor-decompressor" or, more commonly, "coder-decoder"...

s, including the Sorenson codec

Sorenson codec

Sorenson codec may refer to either of three proprietary video codecs: Sorenson Video, Sorenson Video 3 or Sorenson Spark. Sorenson Video is also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ...

s SV3 Pro and Spark, H.264, H.263, VP6, VC1, MPEG2, and many others. Squeeze operates on the Apple Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 and Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 operating systems. Squeeze 7 offers native plugins to Avid

AVID

AVID stands for:* Advancement Via Individual Determination, a college-readiness system designed to increase the number of students who enroll in four-year colleges in the U.S....

, Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere (CS4, CS5) NLEs. Sorenson Squeeze 7 is available via electronic download or CD. The price is $799; upgrades from previous versions begin at $299 (with an introductory $199 price for Squeeze 6 users).
Since its release, Sorenson Media

Sorenson Media

Sorenson Media was established in December 1995 to address market demand for rich online media content by developing innovative, cost-effective video encoding technology that significantly reduced bandwidth requirements while preserving the highest video quality...

’s industry-changing video encoding technology has been used repeatedly by major motion picture studios such as Disney, Lucas Film, MGM and Paramount to deliver high-quality streaming video movie trailers over the Internet for a host of high-profile feature films.

Features

Squeeze 7 includes a number of features to improve video & audio quality. Features include: GPU accelerated H.264 encoding, adaptive bitrate encoding, HD encoding and Dolby certified AC3 Audio. Intelligent encoding presets available in Squeeze include: Mainconcept H.264 and Mainconcept H.264 CUDA

CUDA

CUDA or Compute Unified Device Architecture is a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia. CUDA is the computing engine in Nvidia graphics processing units that is accessible to software developers through variants of industry standard programming languages...

. Adaptive bitrate encoding allows for optimal bitrate and error resilience based on network conditions, resulting in a dynamic adjustment of the video bitstream being delivered.
Each copy of Squeeze 7 includes the Dolby Certified AC3 Consumer encoder. Squeeze 7 also includes a simplified review and approval process, which allows the user to automatically send secure, password protected videos for immediate review. Instant feedback is received via Web or mobile.

History

Since its inception in 1995, Sorenson Media has been instrumental in bringing Internet video to mainstream applications and is committed to dramatically improving the online video experience for content creators, managers and consumers alike. Apple acknowledged the superior quality of Sorenson Media’s video encoding technology by licensing the Sorenson Video 1 (SV1) codec for inclusion in the Apple QuickTime video player, establishing a new and higher standard for video quality on the Internet. The SV1 codec was included with the release of QuickTime 3, and received wide exposure with the release of two high-profile online trailers for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, both of which utilized the pioneering codec. The Sorenson Video Pro encoder was the first of many transformational products and technologies created by Sorenson Media, and the strategic partnership with Apple was the first of a number of such productive collaborations for Sorenson Media with major industry players.

Versions

• Sorenson Squeeze 3 was announced in 2001.

• Sorenson Squeeze for Macromedia Flash MX was announced in 2002.

• Sorenson Squeeze 5 was released on March 31, 2008.

• Sorenson Squeeze was updated to version 5.1 on May 11, 2009.

• Sorenson Squeeze 6 was released on November 3, 2009.

• Sorenson Squeeze 7 is the current version and was released January 25, 2011.

Awards

• Streaming Media magazine Readers’ Choice Award for Encoding Software for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

• 2008 Vanguard Award from Digital Content Producer magazine

Squeeze 7 System Requirements

Windows

• Pentium IV-based computer or greater
• Windows XP, Vista or 7
• 32- and 64-bit compatible (including AVID 64-bit update); Faster performance on 64-bit systems
• 512 MB RAM
• 120 MB available hard drive space
• QuickTime 7.2 or later
• DirectX 9.0b or later

Macintosh

• Intel-based processor
• Mac OS 10.4 or later
• 32- and 64-bit compatible; Faster performance on 64-bit systems
• 512 MB RAM
• 120 MB available hard drive space
• QuickTime 7.2 or later

External links

• Version 6 press release
• Version 5.1 press release
• Sorenson Squeeze Website
• Digital Video Editing Software Gallery - includes Sorenson Squeeze version history