Your MPEG and DVD projects can have the same quality as a Hollywood studio

Designed for professionals, Cinema Craft Encoder SP3 is for those who want to go beyond simple consumer products and get the finest quality MPEG encodes for DVD authoring, CDROM and PowerPoint 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 tool! Cinema Craft Encoder SP3 is a standalone encoding application and does not include a plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro.

Features

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 SP3!

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.

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 SP3 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.

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 SP3. 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.

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 SP3. 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.

With SP3, it is not necessary to re-encode the entire source every time you make a change. It is now possible to re-encode only the segment that has been changed, thus saving a lot of encode time when you are under a deadline.

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Cinema Craft Encoder SP3

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".. if you must have the best software encoder in the world today, this is it."
- Barry Braverman, Digital Content Producer

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