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Your MPEG and DVD projects can have the same quality as a Hollywood studio
Designed for professionals, Cinema Craft Encoder MP is for those who want to go beyond the default Compressor engine and get the finest quality MPEG encodes for DVD authoring, CDROM, presentations, museum exhibits, digital signage and other uses.
Cinema Craft encoders have multi-core processor support. The choice of many Hollywood studios, Cinema Craft encoders are so fast that they can encode faster than real-time even with multi-pass encoding! With special proprietary filtering algorithms, Cinema Craft encoders produce pristine picture quality that is unmatched. With support for Quicktime Reference Files and animation sequences (BMP, TGA, TIFF, PNG and JPEG), no studio should be without this full plug-in for Apple Compressor 3/3.5. Why wait any longer?
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Features |
| Cinema Craft Encoder MP includes many awesome new features |
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| Cinema Craft Xtream (CCX) Encode Engine |
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The CCX engine is highly regarded as the finest MPEG encoder engine in existence. Hollywood knows quality. Cinema Craft encoders were used to produce a long list of released DVD titles. What used to be the domain of only the very sophisticated hardware systems produced by Cinema Craft is now available to you for a fraction of the cost in Cinema Craft Encoder MP! |
| Multi-Core Processor Support |
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With the advent of multi-core processors, it is like having a team doing the work of one. Particularly with a CPU-intensive task such as MPEG encoding, it is good to split the calculations among multiple processors equally. With eight cores, each encodes 1/8 of the content resolution. This can make processing go very fast indeed, resulting in multi-pass quality that can be attained in faster than real-time. |
| Virtual Multi-Pass Encoding |
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During an encode, there is a tremendous amount of processing. These calculations help to build a sophisticated processing model that gets smarter with each pass. Cinema Craft Encoder MP not only does multi-pass encoding of the source, it also adds the sophistication of performing virtual passes in memory when scene changes and complex transitions warrant extra care in tuning the model. |
| Advanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix |
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Perhaps the one area where the CCX engine really shines above all other encoders is the level of sophistication given to the routines that perform quantization. MPEG is highly compressed and a lot of visual information has to be discarded. You want the end result to look good, not fuzzy. Most encoders simplify this step. Not Cinema Craft Encoder MP. It adds GOP-level adaptation of the quantization matrix, continually adjusting to changes in luminance, light levels and motion. During each pass, the quantization becomes more exact. The result? Awesome picture quality. |
| Advanced Adaptive GOP Structure |
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Another CCX exclusive is the added sophistication of varying the size of the GOP structure depending upon its analysis of the content. Most encoders have a fixed GOP size and placement of the I, B and P frames. Not Cinema Craft Encoder MP. It adjusts the size depending upon motion and scene changes. When there is high motion in a scene, it will reduce the size of the GOP to produce a more accurate picture. Likewise, it will increase the GOP size with scenes that have low motion. |
| Compression |
| MPEG2 |
System |
ITU-T Rec.H222.0, ISO/IEC13818-1 (PS only) |
| Video |
ITU-T Rec.H262, ISO/IEC13818-2 (MP@ML only) |
| MPEG1 |
System |
ISO/IEC11172-1 |
| Video |
ISO/IEC11172-2 |
| Audio |
ISO/IEC11172-3 (Layer II only) |
| Video |
| Input format |
AVI |
1.0 (Including reference file)/2.0/OpenDML
* CODEC used is required |
| QuickTime |
QuickTime (mov)
* QuickTime 7 is required |
| DV |
DV (dif)
* CODEC used is required |
| Sequential images |
BMP/TGA/TIFF/PNG/JPEG |
| Output file |
MPEG2 |
PS (CBR only)/Video ES |
| MPEG1 |
SS (CBR only)/Video ES |
| SVCD |
1.0 |
| VCD |
2.0 |
| Frame size |
Input |
Unlimited |
| Output |
Up to 720x576 |
| Frame rate |
Input |
Unlimited |
| Output |
23.976 ... 30fps |
| Encoding mode |
CBR |
Single pass/Multi pass |
| VBR |
Single pass/Multi pass |
| Bit rate |
Up to 15Mbps |
| Virtual Multi-Pass Encoding ™ |
Performs multiple quantization passes (2-8 passes) during each encoding pass |
| Advanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix ™ |
Automatically optimizes for the best quantize matrix |
| Advanced Adaptive GOP Structure ™ |
Automatically optimizes for the best GOP structure for each GOP |
| I-frame insertion |
Automatically inserts an I-frame at the scene change
Change a frame you specify to an I-frame |
| Bit allocation in VBR |
Ability to see bitrate fluctuations or quantization scale on the graph and optimize the structure of each GOP |
| Segment Re-Encoding |
Re-Encodes just a segment you specify |
| Pre-filtering |
Multi-function filters are available such as Noise Reduction and Non-linear/Linear filters
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| Inverse 3:2 pulldown |
Highly accurate 3:2 pulldown detection |
| DVD player bug avoidance |
Against some hidden violations within particular DVD players |
| Batch encoding |
Batch encode all of the entries in a list |
| Audio |
| Input format |
PCM Uncompressed |
WAV/AIFF |
| Output file |
PCM Uncompressed |
WAV/AIFF |
| MPEG1 Audio |
Audio ES (Layer II only) |
| Sampling frequency |
48,000/44,100/32,000 Hz |
| Quantization bitrate |
16-bit |
| Bitrate |
MPEG1 Audio |
Up to 384 Kbps |
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Reviews and News
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Cinema Craft Encoder MP Plug-In for Compressor 3
"The Cinema Craft MPEG-2 encoding engine is far superior to anything on the market ..
.. a huge step forward for professional, high quality MPEG2 encoding on the Mac platform."
- Brian Gary, Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro Web Site
Read the Article (English)
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Technical Support
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Cinema Craft Encoder - Knowledge Base
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