Episode 5.2

Episode 5.2 is considered as a cross-platform desktop video encoding application that offers the highest quality and fastest desktop video encoding for content repurposing for distribution to Web, DVD, mobile phones and portable devices.

Major Benefits:

• Format Flexibility
• • Current and emerging video & audio file format support: SD & HD, in and out
  • Import virtually any file format, including broadcast/professional formats
  • Encode to WM9, VC-1, Flash 8/9, H.264, MPEG-1/-2/-4, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV, QT and much more
• Speed
• • Fastest encoding speeds available in a desktop video encoder
  • Ultimate Quality
  • Optimized codecs, filters extensive fine-tuning compression capabilities allow you to generate the highest-quality media files
  • Superior Flash 8/9 quality included
• Easy to Use
• • Intuitive user interface with powerful preview window
  • Predefined or customized encoding settings for beginners & pros alike
  • Watch folders for automated encoding
  • Batch processing of up to 25 jobs
• Scalable: desktop to server solution
• • Upgrade to Episode Encoder Pro to get advanced professional formats and increased capacity with unlimited batch processing
  • Upgrade to scalable server-based Episode Engine with ultra-fast job processing for high-volume, time-critical workflows

Major Features:

1. 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)
2. Watch folder support - drop a file into a specified folder for automated encoding
3. Preview - A/B comparison, auto-update, dynamic frame preview, bitrate analysis*, play functionality
4. More than 500 professional settings templates
5. Settings manager
6. Scalable to Episode Engine server-based solution
7. Bumpers and trailers - add intro and outro movies to your content
8. Picture-in-Picture - add a watermark to your content as a picture, animation or even as a movie
9. Support for metadata and Closed Captions - ATSC A/53 Line 21
10. Support for alpha channels
11. Advanced deinterlace filters - produce the best possible progressive output even when the source material has been edited and cut
12. 2-pass encoding - (H.264, WMV, MPEG2/4, H.263) for maximum quality
13. Hinting (streaming) - according to IETF, ISMA and 3GPP
14. Resizing and resampling algorithms - give the best quality for small-screen, low-bandwidth display devices and when upscaling from SD to HD
15. Automatic input format detection - video codec, audio codec, color sampling, frame rate, pixel aspect, audio sampling
16. Frame-rate conversion - NTSC to/from PAL: 3:2 pulldown, 2:3 pulldown
17. Inverse telecine - even when the source material has been edited and cut
18. Fully configurable advanced color preprocessing filters - (black and white restoration, HSV and gamma correction, noise removal, image sharpening
19. Pipeline integration* - capture video directly to your encoding batch
20. Advanced audio filtering - including normalize, balance, fade in/out...

• New features
• • Added support for Closed Captioning: EIA-608, EIA-708 and SCTE-20 Closed Captions can now be imported and exported. In-band Closed Captions can also be decoded from the VBI data.
  • Added feature to Resize filter for MOV files: Adds option to use ITU-R Rec. BT.601 compatible PASP values.
  • New MPEG-PS/TS importer which has better support for MPEG Audio, AC-3, AAC, AES3, H.264, MPEG-1 Video and MPEG-2 Video.
  • AES3 audio can now be encoded in MPEG Transport Streams.
  • Added VBI Importer and VBI Exporter filters to pass-through in-band VBI data.
  • New MXF templates for Harris (Leitch) Nexio and Omneon playout servers. Copyright © 2009 Telestream, Inc. June, 2009 Page 2
  • New MXF templates for Avid compatible XDCAM EX, XDCAM HD, XDCAM HD422 and IMX.
• Fixed issues
• • Episode is faster to start-up on computers not connected to the Internet (thus not able to reach licensing server.)
  • Improved error messages.

Requirements:

• Intel based Mac or Apple PowerPC G5
• Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
• QuickTime 7 or higher
• Final Cut Pro 6
• Minimum 1 GB RAM
• 20 GB HD