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How fast will VS6 Speedpack compress 60mb TIFF files into JPEGs approximately 4mb in size?

The answer to this question can be approximately inferred from the "Speed Test" spreadsheets we have on the web-site for encoding. 

There is an example on the spreadsheet involving a 13.3K x 13.3K RGB image (531 MBytes), being compressed to 2 bits/pixel, at 0.145 pictures/second, using the speedpack on a standard 2.4 GB core-2 duo machine.  From this, it can be inferred that compressing 60 MB down to 5 MB (12:1 is 2 bits/pixel for RGB, although colour properties were not specified in the original request) should occur at a rate of 1.2 pictures/second.  Compressing to the slightly lower target size of 4 MB will be a little bit faster.  Of course, if you use a machine with two quad-core Xeons at 3GHz, everything will go faster by a factor of 4 * 3/2.4 = 5.