Elecard Converter Studio User manual

Elecard Converter Studio

User Guide

Version 3.3

Notices

Elecard Converter Studio User Guide

First edition: December 2006

Date modified: July 28 2009.

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the use of the information contained herein. Changes are periodically made to the information

herein; these changes will be incorporated in new editions of the publication. Elecard may make

improvements and/ or change in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described in this publication

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CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................................. 4

1.1 PREFACE ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1.2 USING THIS GUIDE ............................................................................................................................................................. 4

1.3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ...................................................................................................................................................... 4

1.4 LICENSING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................... 4

2. DESCRIBING ELECARD CONVERTER STUDIO ...................................................................................................... 6

2.1 CONVERTER STUDIO FEATURES ............................................................................................................................................ 6

2.2 SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................................. 9

3. ELECARD CONVERTER STUDIO INTERFACE ...................................................................................................... 12

3.1 MAIN MENU ................................................................................................................................................................... 13

3.2 BATCH LIST PANEL ......................................................................................................................................................... 14

3.3 PROFILES PANEL .............................................................................................................................................................. 17

3.4 TASK PARAMETERS PANEL ................................................................................................................................................ 19

3.5 PREVIEW PANEL ............................................................................................................................................................... 20

3.6 MESSAGES PANEL ............................................................................................................................................................ 22

3.7 CLUSTER PANEL ............................................................................................................................................................... 22

3.8 STATISTICS PANEL ............................................................................................................................................................ 25

4. ADDING FILES FOR CONVERSION .......................................................................................................................... 26

5. SAVING, A LYING AND CHANGING TASK ARAMETERS ............................................................................ 30

5.1 PROFILE APPLYING ........................................................................................................................................................... 30

5.2 FAST PROFILE CHANGING .................................................................................................................................................. 30

5.3 TASK PARAMETERS CHANGING ........................................................................................................................................... 32

5.4 INPUT FILE INFORMATION .................................................................................................................................................. 32

5.5 STREAM TYPE PARAMETERS .............................................................................................................................................. 34

5.6 VIDEO ENCODING PARAMETERS .......................................................................................................................................... 37

5.7 PICTURE TRANSFORMATION ................................................................................................................................................ 39

5.8 LOGO AND ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION ............................................................................................................................... 47

5.9 AUDIO PARAMETERS ......................................................................................................................................................... 48

5.10 CHAPTER POINTS ............................................................................................................................................................ 50

6. ADVANCED ENCODING SETTINGS .......................................................................................................................... 51

6.1 AVC/H.264 VIDEO ENCODER ADVANCED SETTINGS ........................................................................................................... 52

6.2 MPEG-1/2 VIDEO ENCODER ADVANCED SETTINGS ............................................................................................................ 57

6.3 MPEG-4 VIDEO ENCODER ADVANCED SETTINGS ................................................................................................................ 59

6.4 MPEG MULTIPLEXER ADVANCED SETTINGS ....................................................................................................................... 61

7. TOOLS ............................................................................................................................................................................... 64

7.1 WATCH FOLDER MODE .................................................................................................................................................... 64

7.2 FEATURES VIEWER ........................................................................................................................................................... 65

7.3 ADVERTISEMENT SCHEDULE EDITOR ................................................................................................................................... 66

7.4 CONVERTER STUDIO SERVICE MANAGER ............................................................................................................................. 67

7.5 BATCH LIST FILTER .......................................................................................................................................................... 69

7.6 CONVERTER STUDIO CONSOLE ........................................................................................................................................... 71

8. CONVERTER STUDIO REFERENCES .................................................................................................................... 73

9. CLUSTER NODE INSTALLATION AND ADJUSTMENT ....................................................................................... 75

10. HOT KEYS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 76

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1. Introduction

1.1 Preface

Elecard Converter Studio is intended for professional conversion of media files at high-speed with

high quality. The program converts video data into MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 ASP

AVC/H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) DV25 AVI Uncompressed and AVI HuffYUV formats. Audio

data is converted into MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer I/II AAC and WAV formats.

1.2 Using This Guide

The guide is intended for users and developers. It describes all program functions encoding

parameters and provides the instructions for its usage.

1.3 Syste Require ents

The Elecard Converter Studio program requires the following minimum system configuration:

•SSE-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium Core2Duo Xeon AMD® Athlon Opteron etc.)

•512 MB RAM

•Any VGA card (NVIDIA video adapter with the CUDA technology support is strongly

recommended)

•Windows® 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

•USB HASP HL key (for Pro/Pro HD versions only)

1.4 Licensing and Technical Support

Elecard Converter Studio is available as a shareware or as a registered product.

By installing copying or otherwise using the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or any UPDATES you

agree to be bound by the terms of the "Elecard'' End-User License Agreement (''EULA''). This

EULA is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a single entity) and Elecard for

the "Elecard" software product(s) accompanying this EULA which include(s) computer software

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and may include "online" or electronic documentation associated media and printed materials

(''SOFTWARE PRODUCT'').

For sales and licensing information contact the Elecard Sales Department: [email protected]

For technical support contact the Elecard Technical Support Team: [email protected]

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2. Describing Elecard Converter Studio

2.1 Converter Studio Features

Elecard Converter Studio is the program (series of programs) that performs the format

conversion of media files at high-speed and with high quality. It supports the Watch Folder Mode

that provides automatically converting of files from specified folder and can be started as

Windows® service. The program allows user to use computing power of locally networked PCs

for common task list encoding (distributed computing).

Optimal encoding parameters can be selected from the preconfigured profiles. Profiles provide the

compatibility of created files with different devices such as DVD SVCD HDV AVCHD® Blu-

Ray FLV Sony PlayStation® Portable (Sony PSP®) Sony PlayStation3® Apple iPod® etc.

You can also create your own profile and save it for further use. The complete control over

encoding parameters and extra facilities allow you to solve professional tasks.

Elecard Converter Studio has the following features:

•Watch Folder mode. The program automatically scans the specified input folder and

converts new media files according to the selected profile.

•Work as Windows® service. Allows the Watch Folder mode start as Windows® service.

It is used only in Pro/Pro HD versions.

•Console application mode. The program can be started as console application that

supports both the single file converting and the Watch Folder mode.

•M EG-2 Encoding. Widespread and high-quality encoding format. It allows you to create

DVD HDV and Blu-ray compatible files that can be used for further recording to discs

and other storages.

•Lossless M EG-2 transcoding. Allows lossless transcoding of MPEG-2 streams during

the logo overlay process.

•M EG-4 AS and AVC/H.264 Encoding. Foremost encoding format that is used in wide

application area from network broadcasting to encoding of FullHD video for HD-DVD and

Blu-ray storages.

•DV Encoding. Allows saving video into AVI DV format. It is a widely used format for

video editing. The format provides easy editing and the optimal proportion of encoding

quality to the output file size.

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•Saving video to uncompressed or lossless format. Allows saving video to uncompressed

AVI or using lossless encoding (to make file size smaller).

•Two pass M EG-2 and AVC/H.264 encoding. Allows encoding quality improvement.

•Fast first pass for two pass encoding. Allows encoding acceleration in two pass mode.

The total encoding time is reduced up to 30%.

• M EG-1/2 Layer I/II, AAC LC, L CM and WAV CM audio encoding. Support of

different audio formats allows selection of the optimal encoding format for every task.

•Work with DVD. Allows conversion of the whole DVD or only the selected parts.

•Advertisement insertion. Allows advertisements adding to a file during conversion.

•Specifying part for transcoding. Allows transcoding the specified part of the file.

•Chapter oints adding. Allows adding key frames to the specified positions during video

encoding in MPEG-2 format.

•Extended access to components settings. Allows complete control over encoding

parameters.

•Work with multichannel streams. Allows you to open multichannel stream to select the

required tracks for work and to create multichannel streams with individual settings for

each track. Work with MPEG multiplexer is adapted for multiprogram files creation. It is

used only in Pro/Pro HD versions.

•Stream Copy mode for video and audio. The mode of the original track transferring from

the input file to the output file without conversion. It accelerates the conversion process

and keeps the data quality.

•Multiplexing into AVI, FLV, M 4, 3G , AVCHD®, M EG-1 SS, M EG-2 S/TS

and elementary streams saving. Provides wide application of the output files.

•M EG streams indexing. Provides index files creation for encoded MPEG files. This

option is necessary for broadcasting.

•Set of preconfigured profiles for optimal encoding. Provides easy creation of files that

are compatible with different devices.

• rofiles creation, editing and saving. Provides creation and further use of the user

original profiles.

•Cluster encoding. Encoding of common task list using the computing power of locally

networked PCs (distributed computing).

Elecard Converter Studio is available as Elecard Converter Studio Mobile Elecard Converter

Studio AVC HD Elecard Converter Studio Elecard Converter Studio Pro и Elecard Converter

Studio ProHD. Each version is intended for a certain range of tasks and provides respective

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functionality. The table below specifies features that are available in the different Elecard

Converter Studio versions.

Table 1. Elecard Converter Studio and Elecard Converter Studio Pro/Pro HD Features

Features Mobile AVCHD Consu er Pro ProHD

Supported Input Formats

MPEG-1/2 √ √ √ √ √

MPEG-4 ASP √ - √ √ √

AVC/H.264 √ √ √ √ √

DV25 √ √ √ √ √

DVC Pro 50/100 - - - √ √

DVD √-√ √ √

MPEG-1 Layer 1/2/3 √ √ √ √ √

LPCM √ √ √ √ √

Dolby Di ital* √ √ √ √ √

AAC √ - √ √ √

AMR* √ - √ √ √

Supported Video Encoding Formats

Maximal resolution limits √ (720x576) - - √ (720x576) -

MPEG-1/2 √ (MP@ML) √ (MP@HL) √ (MP@HL) √ (HP@HL) √ (HP@HL)

MPEG-2 Lossless - - - √ √

MPEG-4 ASP √ - √ √ √

AVC/H.264 √ ([email protected]) - √ (Hi [email protected]) √ (Hi [email protected]) √ (Hi [email protected])

DV25 √ √ √ √ √

DVC Pro50 * - - - √ √

DVC Pro100 * - - - - √

Supported Audio Encoding Formats

MPEG-1/2 Layer I/II √ √ √ √ √

AAC √ - √ √ √

AMR* √ - √ √ √

LPCM √ √ √ √ √

WAV PCM √ √ √ √ √

Multiplexing Formats

RAW √ √ √ √ √

AVI √ √ √ √ √

FLV √ √ √ √ √

MP4 √ - √ √ √

3GPP* √ - √ √ √

AVCHD® - √ √ - √

MPEG-1 SS √ √ √ √ √

MPEG-2 PS √ √ √ √ √

MPEG-2 TS - √ √ √ √

Miscellaneous

Denoisin - √ √ √ √

Sound correction - √ √ √ √

Lo o insertion - - - √ √

Chapter Point - - - √ √

Advertisement insertion - - - √ √

Enhanced file processin

mode - √ √ √ √

Indexin of output MPEG

files - - - √ √

MPEG-2 TS files

encryption - - - √ √

Encodin with constant - - - √ √

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Features Mobile AVCHD Consu er Pro ProHD

bitrate (CBR)

General settin s of video

encoders - √ √ √ √

Advanced settin s of

encoders - - - √ √

Advanced settin s of

MPEG-2 TS multiplexer - - - √ √

Creation of multipro ram

streams - - - √ √

Watch Folder mode - - - √ √

Console application mode - - - √ √

Converter Studio service - - - √ √

Cluster encodin ** - - - √ √

HASP HL protection - - - √ √

* - not implemented will be available in the next versions

** - delivered as option for Pro/Pro HD versions

2.2 Specifications

Elecard Converter Studio supports the following multiplexed output formats:

•MPEG-1 System Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1)

•MPEG-2 Program Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1)

•MPEG-2 Transport Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1)

•AVCHD® streams

•MP4 ISO compatible files (ISO/IEC 14496-14)

•MP4 Sony PSP compatible files

•MP4 Apple iPod compatible files

•MP4 ISMA compatible files

•MP4 3GPP compatible files

•FLV compatible files

•AVI files

•ES Annex B Type II (ISO/IEC 11172-1)

Elecard Converter Studio supports the following output elementary stream formats:

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•AVC/H.264 High Profile (ISO/IEC 14496-10)

•MPEG-4 ASP (ISO/IEC 14496-2)

•MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-2)

•MPEG-2 HL@HP (ISO/IEC 13818-2)

•DV25 (SMPTE 314M-1999)

•AAC (ISO/IEC 13818-7)

•MPEG-1/2 audio Layer I/II (ISO/IEC 11172-3 ISO/IEC 13818-3)

•LPCM

•WAV PCM

•AVI Uncompressed files

•HuffYUV AVI

•DVB subtitles

•Closed Captions EIA-608 EIA-708

•Teletext subtitles

Elecard Converter Studio supports the following input formats:

•AVI Uncompressed files (RGB YV12 YUY2)

•DV25 DV50 DV100 MPEG-4 SP/ASP (AVI MOV files)

•AVS (Avisynth Script)

•MPEG-1/2 (MPEG PS/TS VES ES XPL)

•MPEG-4 SP/ASP (MOV MP4 MPEG PS/TS VES XPL)

•AVC/H.264 (MOV MP4 MPEG PS/TS VES XPL)

•LPCM

•WAV PCM

•Dolby Digital

•MPEG-1 Audio Layer II

•MPEG-1 Audio Layer III

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