Elecard Converter Studio Pro&ProHD

Elecard Converter Studio Pro is an application designed for professional conversion of media data to AVCHD and HDV formats at high-speed with high picture quality. The feature of watch folder mode makes this application a perfect tool for quick and automatic content preparation.

Professionals will definitely appreciate the full control over encoder settings as well as the ability to choose optimal encoding parameters from the profile list. Content creators, broadcasters, digital signage and postproduction companies that work with large amounts of media content will find this product more than just useful for processing the data and getting the best quality possible.

There are four product editions available: Elecard Converter Studio, Elecard Converter Studio AVC HD, Elecard Converter Studio Pro, and Converter Studio ProHD. Pro and ProHD editions provide additional functionality as compared to the standard version of Elecard Converter Studio. (See the section "Version comparison").

Features

• Resolution support: Up to SD 720x576 in Elecard Converter Studio Pro and HD 1920x1080 and higher in Elecard Converter Studio ProHD
• Watch folder mode: the program automatically scans the chosen folder for new media files and if any are found, they are added to the task list with the predefined encoding settings.
• Works as a Windows® service: you can run the watch folder mode as a Windows® service
• MPEG-2 Encoding: enables you to create DVD, HDV, HD-DVD and Blu-ray-compatible files that can be later written to a disc or other data carrier.
• 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 H.264 encoding: significantly improves the quality and makes encoding with the set filesize possible.
• Fast first pass for H.264 encoding: makes the encoding process in the two-pass mode even faster, reducing overall encoding time by 30 percent
• Indexing of MPEG files: after you have encoded MPEG files, you can create an index file which is necessary for network broadcasting.
• MPEG-1 Layer II, AAC (HE AAC + PS) and WAV PCM audio encoding: a wide variety of audio formats lets you choose a necessary format for each task.
• Extended access to the settings of different components: professionals that need full control over the settings will definitely like this feature.
• Full-featured multi-channel stream support: the program allows you not only to open a multi-channel stream and choose the needed channel, but also to create multi-channel streams, applying individual settings for each channel. MPEG multiplexer is also optimized for creating multi-program files.
• 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, MP4 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.
• AVC Blu-Ray and Sony Playstation3 profiles: ready-made profiles with the optimal encoding settings that will save a lot of your time.
• AVS (Avisynth Script): Avisynth allows you to perform the non-linear video editing, cropping, deinterlacing, trimming, color correcting 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.

During the encoding process the application lets you transform the image using the following features: deinterlacing, changing frame rate and frame size, frame cropping, and postprocessing.

What's new in 2.1

• Support of advertisement insertion
• Partial transcoding
• Batch list filter
• Ability to set the output file size
• Ability of input files indexing
• Profiles grouping into divisions
• Displaying of the recommended encoding settings

• * - Supplied separately, for more information please contact our sales department.

Supported formats

System Requirements

Requirements to hardware

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

Requirements to software

• Windows® 2000/XP/2003 Server

Installation

Uninstallation