Episode Engine Pro

Episode Engine delivers outstanding encoding speed, performance and value. Find out for yourself why video professionals worldwide rely on Episode Engine for its broad format support, encoding automation features and unlimited scalability for distribution to new media outlets. For professional time-critical productions, requiring professional formats and the highest encoding speed available, the Pro version of Episode Engine is the right choice.

Features:
- Input monitoring - browse and monitor folders over FTP, SMB or local files
- Engine SDK - enables easy integration to any workflow - NEW
- Scalable through clustering - you can cluster several Episode Engines
- Easy deployment and notification - with intelligent metadata driven scripts - NEW
- Bumpers and trailers - add intro and outro movies to your content
- Encode while ingest - with Pipeline - NEW
- Picture-in-Picture - add a watermark to your content as a picture, animation or even as a movie
- 10 bits 4.4.4 - support for formats like RED, DPX, ProRes 422, Uncompressed - NEW
- Support for metadata and Closed Captions - ATSC A/53 Line 21 - NEW
- Support for alpha channels
- Advanced deinterlace filters - produce the best possible progressive output even when the source material has been edited and cut
- Advanced standard conversions - hardware comparable - NEW
- 2-pass encoding - (H.264, WMV, MPEG2/4, H.263) for maximum quality
- Hinting (streaming) - according to IETF, ISMA and 3GPP
- Resizing and resampling algorithms - give the best quality for small-screen, low-bandwidth display devices and when upscaling from SD to HD
- Automatic input format detection - video codec, audio codec, color sampling, frame rate, pixel aspect, audio sampling
- Frame-rate conversion - NTSC to/from PAL: 3:2 pulldown, 2:3 pulldown
- Inverse telecine
- Fully configurable advanced color preprocessing filters - (black and white restoration, HSV and gamma correction, noise removal, image sharpening, ensuring the highest quality
- Advanced audio filtering - including normalize, balance, fade in/out, high/low pass and other advanced features