AC3 encoding soft...again but maybe ?

[Aquarius]

Hi !

Browsing the net, I've found this company :
http://www.surcode.com/ , a subdivision of minnetonka audio.
They have an AC-3 encoder for Dolby Digital, (Dolby approved) capable of timestamping TC in the final file.... [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
I'd like to know what are the Pros thinking about it ? I've read many times that software encoders doesn't offer TC timestamp, so that's why they're pretty useless (Kind of loud) and you have to buy the rather expensive Dolby hardware [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Could this be a reliable alternative ?

[Rail Jon Rogut]

I haven't used them.. but KindOfLoud makes SmartCode Pro for PT.. unfortunately, I don't believe it's available for HD yet.

Rail

[The Chinese]

I have been testing Surcode....TC stamoing doesn;t seem to work properly. Also, there is no provision to change the TC rate (Not even DF to NDF). so this prog has limited use. Granted, I have not spoken w/ Minnetonka yet,but will be doing so next week.
-Todd A.

[ODC]

Maybe this could be great news but this soft's PC only....besides, it's around 1K $ so tht's kind of expensive....

[Henchman]

I can't see the prices coming down. I'm sure they have to pay a hefty price to dolby to license the technology.

Remeber, their hardware boxes go for around $5k each for encoder and decoder.