Episode 4.2.1 review

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Popwire's Episode marries the reliability and speed of server-based encoding to the ease of the desktop environment.

License: Trial
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 43819K
Developer: Popwire
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Price: $395.00
Updated: 28 Dec 2006
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Popwire's Episode marries the reliability and speed of server-based encoding to the ease of the desktop environment.

By taking full advantage of Mac OS X's multithreaded environment as well as multiprocessor (SMP) and Velocity Engine support, Popwire has created the fastest desktop encoder on the market.

Episode is the unparalleled tool for producing high quality content in multiple formats on the Mac OS X platform.

What's New:
Encode MPEG 1/2/4, Windows Media 9, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV and other QuickTime codecs, Flash 8 encode is optional
Audio filters include balance, channel mixing fade in/out, five-band equalizer, high pass/low pass filters and audio normalization
Video filters include timecode burn in, black and white restoration, contrast, fade, gamma correction, HSV levels, RGB filter, sharpen, smoothing, visible watermark, resize, de-interlace, fade in/out, inverse telecine and noise reduction
Batch processing of up to 25 jobs
Prioritize encoding
Multiprocessor support
Metadata support
More than 80 professional setting templates.

Limitations:
30 days evaluation
All encodings are limited to 20 seconds.

Requirements:
Minimum 1 GB RAM
QuickTime 7 or later.

What's New:
Added VC-1 encoder
Added WMA Pro
Added HDV encoder
Added ATSC A/52 encoder and decoder
Support for adding bumper / trailer to encoded clips
Added filter that can change field order of the video
Added apple help
Added channel mapping to channel filter

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