Elecard Converter Studio is a software for high speed and superior quality multimedia conversion to many popular formats, such as AVC/H.264, MPEG-2, Blu-Ray, HDV, DVD, DV and will be an ideal solution for such devices as Sony PlayStation3™, Apple iPhone™, and Apple iPod™ of all modifications. Thanks to the Flash Video format support users will be able convert their videos into FLV files and publish them on popular web sites, such as YouTube™, Myspace™, Yahoo!™ and others. The owners of AVCHD® Camcorders might find it a useful product, which will allow them to convert footage from their camcorders into formats supported by their favorite editing software.

Features

• Flash Video encoding: full support of this popular format allows Elecard Converter Studio users to upload their video clips to various video portals on the Internet
• MPEG-2 Encoding: enables you to create DVD, HDV and Blu-ray-compatible files that can be later written to a disc or other data carrier
• MPEG-4 ASP and AVC/H.264 Encoding: using the cutting-edge encoding format you can prepare media content for different purposes, from network broadcasting to HD encoding for HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs
• Two-pass MPEG-2 and AVC/H.264 encoding: significantly improves the quality and makes encoding with the set filesize possible
• Fast first pass for MPEG-2 and AVC/H.264 encoding: makes the encoding process in the two-pass mode even faster, reducing overall encoding time by 30 percent
• MPEG-1/2 Layer I/II, AAC and WAV PCM audio encoding: a wide variety of audio formats lets you choose a necessary format for each task
• Direct copying of video and audio streams: enables you to copy an original stream from an input file to an output file without conversion, thus making the encoding process faster without any quality loss
• Multiplexing into AVI, FLV, MP4 and MPEG-1/2 SS/PS/TS with ability of Elementary Stream saving: a wide variety of file formats and the option of Elementary Stream saving makes all future work with the files a lot easier
• Set of pre-defined profiles for optimal encoding: using our default profiles, you can create media files compatible with different devices, such as Sony® PlayStation3, Apple® iPhone, Apple® iPod
• Creating, editing and saving profiles: if you are not satisfied with the default profiles, you can create a new one, save it and use in your future tasks
• AVS (Avisynth Script): avisynth allows you to perform the non-linear video editing, cropping, deinterlacing, trimming, color correction and many other things
• Full-featured DVD Support: you won’t need to use separate applications while working with DVDs anymore, just run Elecard Converter Studio and let it do the job

What's new in 3.3

• Insertion of advertisements during the transcoding process (CodecWorks)
• Event creation for a cluster node (CodecWorks)
• Ability to add two identical sources into one channel (CodecWorks)
• Insertion of subtitles using DirectVobSub
• Dialog for profile synchronization between manager and cluster node

Supported formats

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• SSE-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium, Core2Duo, Xeon; AMD® Athlon, Opteron, etc)
• 512 MB RAM
• Any VGA card (NVIDIA video adapter with the CUDA technology support is strongly recommended)

Software Requirements

• Windows® 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7

Installation

Uninstallation

Elecard Converter Studio is a line of products for media files in other formats conversion with the following opportunities: file content conversion in an automatic mode, starting of the given mode in a form of Windows ® service, stations and IPTV servers management and monitoring. Elecard Converter Studio is the irreplaceable tool during media material preparation. Optimal coding parameters can be chosen from the list of the ready made profiles. Each profile allows to get files compatible to various playback devices, such as DVD, SVCD, HDV, Blu-Ray, Sony PlayStation ® Portable (Sony PSP ®), Apple iPod ® etc. The opportunity of one's own profile making and its saving for further use is provided. The full coding parameters control helps to solve tasks on a professional level. Availability of additional opportunities expands a range of the edition use.

The Elecard Converter Studio product consists of the following versions: Elecard Converter Studio Mobile Edition, Elecard Converter Studio AVC HD Edition, Elecard Converter Studio, Elecard Converter Studio Pro and Elecard Converter Studio CodecWorks. Each version is aimed at the certain number of tasks solving and consequently contains different functionalities. One can find the information about the editions comparison in the following table: