If you're working in a production environment and constantly encoding video, Sorenson's "watch" function is amazing.

We have a machine that is pretty much set aside for unattended tasks such as rendering. When I finish editing a clip, I have Premiere export it across the network to the rendering machine, and as soon as the the file appears in the folder, Sorenson starts encoding.

You can also set it to automatically upload the encoded files to the server after it's finished. It's been a real blessing.
Amazing. Now that's the kind of automation I love. My favourite thing is to go to sleep knowing my computer is still working, whether it be uploading, downloading or burning movies.

Thanks so much both of you, I already downloaded the trial although wasn't able to buy it yet, appears there store has been hacked:
http://www.sorensonstore.com/

At least I can play around with it and get used to it for 30 days and can't see any restrictions on the trial version. From what I have seen so far it was *exactly* what I was hoping to find. It'll be busy rendering about 2,000videos soon LOL.

Cheers,
D.