Elecard Converter Studio Pro is an application designed for professional conversion of media data to AVC/H.264, MPEG-1/2, MPEG-4 formats at high-speed with high picture quality. Cluster encoding makes huge multimedia archives conversion a quick and pleasant job thank to sharing encoding load among computers in the local network. The feature of watch folder mode makes this application a perfect tool for automatic content preparation.

Content creators, broadcasters, digital signage and postproduction companies working with large amounts of media content enjoy full access to encoder settings as well as the ability to choose optimal encoding parameters from the profile list.

Flexible sale system allows the customer to tailor product functionality to fit any budget.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

What's new in 3.3

• Ability of FTP-folder monitoring
• Lossless transcoding of MPEG-2 streams during the logo overlay process
• Ability to create multiple instances in Watch Folder Mode
• Insertion of advertisements during the transcoding process (CodecWorks)
• Event creation for a cluster node (CodecWorks)
• Ability to encode to AVC High 422 Profile using 4:2:2 and 4:0:0 chroma formats
• Insertion of subtitles using DirectVobSub
• Ability to add two identical sources Into one channel (CodecWorks)
• Dialog for profile synchronization between manager and cluster node
• Ability to bind the program to the PC

Supported formats

* - not implemented, will be available in the next versions

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• SSE-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium III, Celeron, 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/7

Installation

Uninstallation

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.