Grass Valley Canopus ProCoder 2.0, High Speed Software Transcoder

The Ultimate Format Converter
Whether you're encoding MPEG for DVD production or a Windows Media for streaming, ProCoder makes conversion from one video format to another quick and easy. Featuring Canopus's highly optimized DV and MPEG CODECs, ProCoder provides high-quality output without the long wait and guesswork of similar tools .

Produce, Perfect, Process: To simplify your workflow, ProCoder provides some powerful manipulation tools to get your sources ready for conversion. Stitching allows you to link multiple sources of various formats together to create a single seamless result, preventing you from having to combine the sources in an editor.

Source filters provide useful enhancement tools, such as bitmap overlay, cropping and volume adjustment, to ensure perfect input before encoding, while target filters give you the flexibility to make specific adjustments for particular output.

High-quality Codecs: ProCoder includes Canopus's high-quality, high-speed, proprietary DV and MPEG-2 codecs. Canopus's DV codec provides the best picture quality preservation at the highest speed, reducing the impact of multiple recompressions. Canopus's MPEG-2 codec employs two-pass variable bitrate (VBR) compression and advanced motion-estimation algorithms to provide the best possible encoded result.

Speed without Limits: Utilizing the full power of modern computer systems through Canopus's Scalable Technology architecture, ProCoder's conversion speed increases with the power of your system. In many cases, ProCoder can transcode files faster than realtime, beating out costly hardware encoders.

Convert once, Create many: Encode a single source to multiple targets simultaneously, run multiple conversion jobs back-to-back in batch mode, or use ProCoder's drag-and-drop preset icons to start conversion with a single click. ProCoder provides the streamlined workflow to convert once and create all the output formats you need.