Elecard Converter Studio 3.1

Elecard Converter Studio 3.1  brings users a powerful software designed to convert multimedia files into different formats, such as AVC/H.264, MPEG-2, FLV, DV and Uncompressed AVI, at blazing speed with high quality. This is a perfect solution for quick processing of many movies for video libraries and movie archives or putting videos on the internet thanks to the support of the popular Flash Video format, used by such portals as YouTube and Yahoo! Video.

Elecard Converter Studio provides fast and high-quality MPEG-2 encoding in two passes. The fast first pass allows to reduce total encoding time up to 30% whereas the second pass assures that the output file will be of the highest quality possible.

Elecard Converter Studio works wth DVD discs allowing to convert the whole DVD or only the selected parts. It allows to add advertisements and set key frames during video encoding.

A set of preconfigured Elecard profiles for optimal encoding has been implemented in the program but users can always create their own original profiles that suit their particular needs.

Elecard Converter Studio product line offers a vast array of functions and has been divided into four editions, directed towards users with different tasks at hand. The product line comprises Elecard Converter Studio, Elecard Converter Studio AVC HD, Elecard Converter Studio Pro, and Elecard Converter Studio ProHD. If you have some particular conversion tasks to be completed please take a look at all the products of this line to see if any of them suit your needs.

It is a line of products for media files in other formats conversion with the following opportunities: file content conversion in an automatic mode, starting of the given mode in a form of Windows ® service, stations and IPTV servers management and monitoring. Elecard Converter Studio is the irreplaceable tool during media material preparation. Optimal coding parameters can be chosen from the list of the ready made profiles. Each profile allows to get files compatible to various playback devices, such as DVD, SVCD, HDV, Blu-Ray, Sony PlayStation ® Portable (Sony PSP ®), Apple iPod ® etc. The opportunity of one's own profile making and its saving for further use is provided. The full coding parameters control helps to solve tasks on a professional level. Availability of additional opportunities expands a range of the edition use.

The Elecard Converter Studio product consists of the following versions: Elecard Converter Studio Mobile Edition, Elecard Converter Studio AVC HD Edition, Elecard Converter Studio, Elecard Converter Studio Pro, Elecard Converter Studio ProHD and Elecard Converter Studio CodecWorks. Each version is aimed at the certain number of tasks solving and consequently contains different functionalities.

Major Features:

1. Flash Video encoding: Full support of this popular format allows Elecard Converter Studio users to upload their video clips to various video portals on the Internet.
2.  MPEG-2 Encoding: enables you to create DVD, HDV and Blu-ray-compatible files that can be later written to a disc or other data carrier.
3.  MPEG-4 ASP and AVC/H.264 Encoding: using the cutting-edge encoding format you can prepare media content for different purposes, from network broadcasting to HD encoding for HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs.
4.  Two-pass MPEG-2 encoding: significantly improves the quality and makes encoding with the set filesize possible.
5.  Fast first pass for H.264 encoding: makes the encoding process in the two-pass mode even faster, reducing overall encoding time by 30 percent
6.  MPEG-1 Layer II, AAC and WAV PCM audio encoding: a wide variety of audio formats lets you choose a necessary format for each task.
7. Direct copying of video and audio streams: enables you to copy an original stream from an input file to an output file without conversion, thus making the encoding process faster without any quality loss
8. Multiplexing into AVI, MP4 and MPEG-2 PS/TS with Elementary Stream saving: a wide variety of file formats and the option of Elementary Stream saving makes all future work with the files a lot easier
9.  Set of default profiles for optimal encoding: using default profiles, you can create media files compatible with different devices, such as Sony® PlayStation3, Apple® iPhone, Apple® iPod.
10.  Creating, editing and saving profiles: if you are not satisfied with the default profiles, you can create a new one, save it and use in your future tasks.
11.  AVS (Avisynth Script): Avisynth allows you to perform the non-linear video editing, cropping, deinterlacing, trimming, color correcting and many other things.
12. Full-featured DVD Support: you won’t need to use separate applications while working with DVDs anymore, just run Elecard Converter Studio and let it do the job.
    

Enhancements:

• Version 3.0 Encoding into AVCHD® format
• Correction of video characteristics (brightness, contrast, saturation, hue,gamma)
• Audio encoding into MPEG-2 format

Requirements:

• SSE-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium, Core2Duo, Xeon; AMD® Athlon, Opteron, etc)
• 512 MB RAM
• Any VGA card
• Windows® 2000/XP/2003 Server