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Description
Episode Pro is a powerful desktop media encoding application for the Mac. It offers the highest quality and fastest desktop encoding for content repurposing and distribution for Web, DVD, mobile phones and portable devices. Includes extensive format support, presets, filters, Compressor plug-in and Dashboard Widget, plus advanced professional formats: MXF, GXF, H.264, High Profile DVCPRO HD, surround sound 5.7, 7.1 and more, with unlimited batch processing. Also includes complimentary instructional video, "Complete Training for Episode and Episode Pro".
Ultimate quality and format support
Episode Pro is a future-proof software solution that offers extensive support for current and emerging video and audio file formats, up to HD resolutions in and out. Optimized codecs, filters and the most extensive fine-tuning compression capabilities on the market allow you to generate the highest-quality media files.
Episode Pro supports high-end professional formats: MXF, GXF, H.264 High Profile, DVCPRO HD, MPEG-2/-4 Transport Streams, 3GPP, mobile multi-bitrate, and more. Our optimized Flash 8 encoder option provides superior Flash 8 quality.
Episode 5.0 Highlights
- Encode to new Flash 8 VP6s, Flash 9 (H.264) and Blu-ray (MPEG-2) formats for content authoring and repurposing
- Import and export support for ProRes HQ (with corresponding QT component installed)
- Log and capture video from tape or live sources with Telestream's Pipeline network video capture device (available with Pipeline v1.2 in May)
- Support for Flip4Mac MXF plug-ins in Episode and Episode Pro enables browsing and importing of content from Grass Valley K2, Profile and 360 Systems servers, plus Sony XDCAM, Ikegami Editcam and Grass Valley Infinity disk-based cameras
- High-quality NTSC/PAL video standards conversion, plus other new video and audio filters
More choices. Hands on control
Episode Pro - intuitive user interface gives you complete hands-on control of the encoding settings. Choose from a wide range of advanced encoding settings, designed by experts. Use dozens of preset templates or create your own custom settings. An extensive range of video and audio filters, with powerful preview windows, let you analyze your setting results before the encoding begins
- Audio filters include balance, channel mixing, fade in/out, five-band equalizer, high pass/low pass filters and audio normalization
- Video filters include timecode burn in, black and white restoration, contrast, fade, gamma correction, HSV levels, RGB filter, sharpen, smoothing, visible watermark, resize, de-interlace, fade in/out, inverse telecine, and noise reduction
Encoding. Performance. Ease of Use
Episode Pro is a universal application optimized for Mac OS X Intel and PowerPC Macs. Features include multi-pass encoding for H.264, WMV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263. Unlimited auto-batch encoding is enabled by simply dragging and dropping one or more media files to the Batch Job window. Dashboard Widgets make it even easier to submit jobs to Episode.
Scalability
Episode Pro is the scalable solution that grows with your media workflow needs. In addition to advanced professional formats, increased capacity with unlimited batch processing, Episode Pro provides a scalable path to Telestream - Episode - Engine, a server-based solution that enables faster, high-volume job processing.
Direct integration with Compressor 3
Final Cut users can expand their encoding to include the extensive array of Episode video & audio formats and features - directly from within the Final Cut timeline.
Flexible tape ingest with Pipeline
Encode SDI to DV, IMX & MPEG with our Pipeline network encoder.
System Requirements
- Intel based Mac or Apple PowerPC G5 (no longer supports G4)
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- Minimum 1 GB RAM
- QuickTime 7 or later
- 20 GB HD
Supported Formats
* Additional support via Quicktime available
** A selection of formats. New input and output formats are added on a regular basis. Please check our website for the latest news and updates.
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