I recently startes usin leopard an I was wondering what's a good encode program I used nero vision for years an vso convertor for awhile I've tried ilife but that's not what I'm lookin for

Well on the mac there is nothing better than 'compressor' which is a part FCS2

Visual Hub

Can be gotten for free on major torrent sites.

Works great!

Handbrake is good too, and it's free...

I use FFMPEGX and sometimes avidemux.

Quicktime Pro and Perian..?

MPEG Streamclip works great and it's free!

I think MPEG Streamclip is one of the essential apps for such kind of job!

Nothing better than Compressor for sure, but it needs learning and it also costs $