Cinematic Craft Encoder 2.66.01.06 released
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Posted on Friday 15th of November, 2002 at 20:46 by SirQUK
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Cinema Craft
Encoder SP allows you to directly encode AVI, QuickTime and DV files into
pristine, DVD compliant MPEG-2 streams, or beautiful MPEG-1 streams for delivery
on CD-ROM or the Internet. Cinema Craft SP gives unprecedented control over the
MPEG encoding process and delivers professional results in record time.
Features
Advanced Motion Detection Algorithms
Most encoders use a conventional algorithm based on the exhaustive search. This
method has inherent flaws and is much more susceptible to encoding errors caused
by things like noise in the source video. Cinema Craft's advanced "multiple
high-speed scan" algorithm resolves these problems and increases the quality of
the final output video.
Automatic Scene Change Detection
The Cinema Craft encoder uses an advanced forward scanning technique to identify
scene changes and use them as points for keyframe (I-Frame) insertion. This
allows for cleaner scene transitions and more accurate seeking during playback.
Cinema Craft SP also allows you to manually set keyframe (I-Frame) insertion
points, great for inserting pin-point accurate chapters in DVD titles.
High-Performance Pre-Encoding
During Automatic Scene Change Detection, Cinema Craft SP also performs an
additional step that involves high-performace pre-encoding of your source video
data. This produces data that contains important bitrate to distortion ratios
that are used to assure the production of a high quality and stable MPEG stream.
Variable Bit Rate Encoding
Most software MPEG encoders support both Constant Bit Rate (CBR) and Variable Bit
Rate (VBR) encoding. But very few (if any) support true multi-pass VBR the way
Cinema Craft SP does. VBR encoding provides the best utilization of the MPEG-2
bitstream by analyzing the motion of the video being encoded and varying the
bitrate accordingly; More action, more bitrate, less action, less bitrate. This
generally leads to higher quality video and smaller file sizes which is always
good.
Multi-pass VBR takes this one step farther by making multiple passes through the
video, each time revising the bitrate structure generated from the previous pass.
This used to be the realm of high-end hardware encoders, but now it's available
right on your desktop
Technical Specifications
Video Formats: MPEG-1 System (ISO/IEC 11172)
MPEG-2 Program/Elementary (ISO/IEC 13818)
Encoding Method: Constant Bit Rate (CBR), Variable Bit Rate (VBR) w/
Multi-pass
Frame Rates: 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
Bitrates 0.5 Mb/s - 3.0 Mb/s (MPEG-1)
1.0 Mb/s - 15.0 Mb/s (MPEG-2)
Aspect Ratio 4:3, 16:9
Audio Modes: Mono, Stereo, Joint Stereo, Dual Channel
Audio Bitrates: 64 - 384 Kbps
Sampling Frequency: 32, 44.1, 48 KHz
I Frame Insertion: Automatic, Manual
Batch Encoding? Yes
System Requirements
Intel Pentium 4, Pentium III, Celeron (533 MHz or better), AMD Athlon, AMD
Duron
256 MB RAM minimum
Windows 2000, XP
MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 decoder/player to view finished files.
Available USB port for security key.
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