Rhozet has announced Carbon Coder 2.5, the latest version of its universal video transcoding solution. This new version of Carbon Coder supports both SD and HD versions of Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM and Avid MediaStream formats, as well as Dolby Digital AC-3.
In addition to supporting P2, XDCAM and MediaStream formats, Carbon Coder v2.5 also supports the import of IMX or HDV files in a QuickTime wrapper. This type of format has become popular in Macintosh-based editing systems and can now be converted for broadcast, Web and mobile playout via Carbon Coder. Additional improved format support includes Quantel HD and the LongGOP version of LXF for Leitch servers.
In the MPEG domain, Carbon Coder’s addition of Dolby AC-3 brings support for CableLabs, ATSC and DVB outputs in both the SD and HD domains. This means video professionals in cable, satellite and broadcast can use Carbon Coder for creating compliant bit streams. Also new to Carbon Coder is the ability to both import and export MPEG video with SMPTE 302M audio, which is a format often used in high-end post production.
Other features include expanded support for closed-captioning and titling. Users can import SCC files and have the closed-captioning data injected into an EIA-608- or 708-compliant video output. Line 21 data can also be extracted from a video source into an XML file that can be used by database systems for indexing video via speech content. The new titler supports multiline, multilanguage titles as well as image scripting of graphic overlays.
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