Elecard Converter Studio AVC HD Edition - is the special edition for files conversion from AVCHD® to MPEG-2, Blu-Ray, Sony® PlayStation3, HDV, DVD and DV formats. This product will be appreciated by AVCHD® digital cameras (Sony® HDR-SR1E, Panasonic® HDC-SD1, a full list of AVCHD® cameras) users for conversion of the video footage to a format supported by video editing software. If you have a wider range of tasks, pay your attention to other products of this line.

Features

• 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.
• Two-pass MPEG-2 encoding: significantly improves the quality and makes encoding with the set filesize possible.
• Fast first pass for MPEG-2 encoding: makes the encoding process in the two-pass mode even faster, reducing overall encoding time by 30 percent
• MPEG-1 Layer II and WAV PCM audio encoding: a wide variety of audio formats lets you choose a necessary format for each task.
• Multiplexing into AVI and MPEG-2 PS/TS with 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 default profiles for optimal encoding: using our default profiles, you can create media files compatible with different devices.
• 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 correcting and many other things.

What's new in 3.0

• Using G4 codecs instead of old components
• Overwriting of the existing profile in the task list
• Only selected task coding in the task list
• Two-pass audio correction ussing Elecard Sound Level Corrector
• Maximum bitrate limitaion of the for video encoders
• Tooltips for the enhanced settings
• «Save the profile» button is on the task setting bar
• LATM format demultiplexer support
• The new mode of field coding of the interlaced video into MPEG-2
• The new option «add files to the list of tasks with the profile»
• Export and import of the profiles from the application
• Selecting the default profile
• Audio and video tracks choosing in the preview window from the context menu

Supported formats

Transcoding formats	Encoding formats
Video formats:
MPEG-1/2 AVC/H.264 DV 25 WMA WMV	MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-2) AVI DV25 Uncompressed AVI files
Audio formats:
MPEG-1 Layer II, III Dolby Digital ( without code conversion) LPCM	MPEG-1 Layer II (ISO/IEC 11172-3) LPCM
Files formats:
AVI MPEG System Stream MPEG Program Stream MPEG Transport Stream MPEG Elementary Stream WMV AVS (Avisynth Script)	MPEG-2 Program Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1) MPEG-2 Transport Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1) AVI ES Annex B Type II (Elementary stream) (ISO/IEC 11172-1)




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System Requirements

Requirements to hardware

• SSE-enhanced CPU (SSE-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium, Core2Duo, Xeon, AMD® Athlon, Opteron etc).
• 512 MB RAM
• Any VGA card

Requirements to software

• Windows® 2000/XP/2003 Server

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. 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 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, Elecard Converter Studio ProHD 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 the versions of the edition comparison in the following table «Version comparison».