Helix Mobile Producer offers high quality encoding and tools for increasing the efficiency and productivity of encoding large volumes of content.

HIGH QUALITY ENCODING

Multiple file formats — The Helix Mobile Producer supports a variety of file formats. Supported file formats include RealAudio, RealVideo, 3GPP Rel 5, and 3GPP2 Rel 6 and 3GPP2 (wireless industry standards).

Multiple encoding formats — The Helix Mobile Producer supports a variety of video and audio encoding formats. For video, it supports RealVideo, MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264 formats. For audio, it supports RealAudio, AAC, AACPlus, Enhanced AACPlus, AMR (NB and WB), QCELP and MP3 formats.

Variable bit rate encoding — This feature enables the video codec to vary the bit rate throughout the clip, depending on the type of content being encoded (high action scenes, low action scenes etc.). This allows for more consistent quality of video encoding for downloadable content, while keeping download times as short as possible.

Video Scaling — For 3GPP, 3GPP2, and RealVideo output formats, imported video files can be scaled to standard resolutions from SQCIF (128 x 96) up to CIF (352 x 288). Helix Mobile Producer Professional can also encode RealVideo at up to VGA (640x480).

Prefiltering — Cropping, frame rate conversion, inverse telecine, deinterlacing, noise filtering, brightness, contrast, and gamma adjustments all combine to allow you to create even better quality video.

Brand integration — Ability to burn logos as part of the video stream/feed

Encoding options — Live and on-demand encoding


EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY

Input file support — The Helix Mobile Producer can accept a variety of filetypes for encoding. Supported file types include AVI, MOV, DV, MPEG1, MPEG2 (with an additional DirectShow or Quicktime plug-in), MP3, MPEG4 and WAV.

Intuitive GUI — The Helix Mobile Producer has an intuitive GUI which displays both the source multimedia content and the encoded content in separate panels. You can visually observe the encoding, and determine the start and end points.

XML job files — Define all of the settings for encoding (what format, what codec to use, configuration for the specific codec that you are using, bit rate etc.) in an XML file, for fast reuse of the same settings for multiple input files.

Users guide & sample settings files — The included users guide will help you get started quickly, and will provide the information you need to define your own preset and project files to provide the best encoded content to your viewers.


HIGH-VOLUME MANAGEMENT TOOLS (PROFESSIONAL EDITION ONLY)

Graphical Batch Interface — Designed for processing large volumes of content.

Scriptable Command line encoding — If you prefer scripting to using a GUI, you have the option of running the encoder from a command line interface.

SNMP Monitoring — remotely monitor encoding with an SNMP network management system.

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