Anyone who's serious about video encoding will tell you that the only true solution out there is Sorenson Squeeze. Why? Because it offers a streamlined workflow, lots of presets and encodes videos very fast.

Sorenson Squeeze comes with hundreds of presets, from iPhone to PSP, presentation or web, which avoid you all the complicated tweaking. Even though it's a professional solution Sorenson Squeeze is very easy to work with and offers a streamline workflow: import your video, then select and drag the desired presets and filters in the job list, then render it. The built-in preview lets you check if you're reached the desired results.

Apart from a wealth of presets, Sorenson Squeeze is also loaded with many filters for deinterlacing, darkening, lightening or enhancing your video for web.

You can make your own custom presets in Sorenson Squeeze, but I found the process very unintuitive and complicated.

I was also very disappointed with lack of help. The guide included with the application is simply a summary of its features and totally fails in truly helping you use all the advanced settings. Sorenson better seriously start working on a good guide.

Those of you wanting to encode for Flash will find Sorenson Squeeze comes with the Sorenson Spark codec but not the higher quality On2VP6 plugin.

Sorenson Squeeze offers a streamline workflow and a wide choice of presets, however the speedy encoder lacks a good help guide.