Episode Pro provides powerful desktop encoding plus professional broadcast format support and unlimited batch encoding. In addition, Episode Pro will act as a gateway to our workgroup server.
Episode Pro is an all-in-one, multiformat encoder designed for post production and new media workflows.
Episode Pro is also a cross-platform software encoder on the market that scales from the desktop to a server cluster.
Episode Pro accepts and transcodes more video and audio file formats than any other encoder in its class.
Episode Pro includes: One-Click Clustering, integrated file sharing, unlimited batch encoding, watchfolders, publishing to YouTube, an intuitive UI, video preview and more.
Here are some key features of "Episode Pro":
· Encode MPEG 1/2/4, Windows Media 9, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV and other QuickTime codecs, Flash 8 encode is optional.
· Plus high-end professional formats, such as MXF, GXF, H.265 High Pofile, DVCPRO HD, MPEG 2/4 Transport Streams, mobile multi-bitrate and more Plus Surround Sound
· 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
· Unlimited batch processing
· More than 80 professional setting templates Plus the ability to scale to Episode Workgroup server-based solutions
· Multiprocessor support
· Prioritize encoding
· Metadata support.
Requirements:
· Intel based Mac or Apple PowerPC G5 (no longer supports G4).
· Minimum 1 GB RAM.
· QuickTime 7 or later.
Limitations:
· 30 days trial period.
· Encoding jobs are limited to 30 seconds or half the duration of the input file.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Fixes and Improvements:
· Significant changes and improvements to the saving and management of user tasks and workflows.
· Improved H.264 encoding quality, especially at lower bit-rates.
· Fixed an issue with WebM playback in Chrome browsers.
· Fixed an issue with .MP4 not streaming properly from Flash streaming servers.
· Changed Episode???s ProRes file creation to work around a bug in Final Cut Pro that caused it to intermittently crash when importing ProRes files.
· Fixed a licensing error with the ???Wrap Avid compliant OP-Atom??