Features
Episode Pro is a powerful cross-platform desktop media encoding application that includes all the features and functionality of Episode plus support for advanced professional formats: MXF, GXF, H.264 High Profile, DVCPRO HD (with Final Cut Pro), mobile multi-bit rate and more with unlimited batch processing. Also includes complimentary instructional video, "Complete Training for Episode and Episode Pro".
Episode Encoder is the easy-to-use software application that offers extensive format support plus the highest quality and fastest video encoding for content repurposing and distribution to new media channels. Import virtually any file format and encode video to Web, DVD, mobile phone & portable device formats or add encoding to high-end professional formats.
Import virtually any file format, including broadcast or professional formats, and encode video to all major Web, DVD authoring, mobile and portable device formats, including Flash 8/9, WM9, QT, H.264, VC-1, 3GPP, MPEG-1/2/4, and much more.
- Batch - process in the background; prioritize encoding and add files and settings to the batch while running; edit jobs; create MBR jobs; set CPU priority and memory usage; create bookmarks to source folders; copy and paste settings onto multiple sources. Limited to 25 jobs. (unlimited in Pro)
- Watch folder support - drop a file into a specified folder for automated encoding
Preview - A/B comparison, auto-update, dynamic frame preview, bitrate analysis*, play functionality
- More than 500 professional settings templates
- Settings manager
- Scalable to Episode Engine* server-based solution
- Bumpers and trailers - add intro and outro movies to your content
- Picture-in-Picture - add a watermark to your content as a picture, animation or even as a movie
- Support for metadata and Closed Captions - ATSC A/53 Line 21
- Support for alpha channels
- Advanced deinterlace filters - produce the best possible progressive output even when the source material has been edited and cut
- 2-pass encoding - (H.264, WMV, MPEG2/4, H.263) for maximum quality
- Hinting (streaming) - according to IETF, ISMA and 3GPP
- Resizing and resampling algorithms - give the best quality for small-screen, low-bandwidth display devices and when upscaling from SD to HD
- Automatic input format detection - video codec, audio codec, color sampling, frame rate, pixel aspect, audio sampling
- Frame-rate conversion - NTSC to/from PAL: 3:2 pulldown, 2:3 pulldown
- Inverse telecine - even when the source material has been edited and cut
- Fully configurable advanced color preprocessing filters - (black and white restoration, HSV and gamma correction, noise removal, image sharpening
- Pipeline integration* - capture video directly to your encoding batch
- Advanced audio filtering - including normalize, balance, fade in/out...
Pro Adds:
- Unlimited batch processing
- High-end professional formats
- Support for Flip4Mac MXF import components*
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