Carbon Coder

Carbon Server

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Carbon Coder

The Essential High-Speed Transcoding Tool

Carbon Coder is a universal transcoding application that facilitates the transfer of media between acquisition, editing, playout, archive, Web, mobile and more. Supporting all major formats (currently more than 40), Carbon Coder is continually updated to accommodate new formats. Carbon Coder can run as a stand-alone application or as part of a multi-node, fully-automated rendering farm under the control of Carbon Server.

As part of the transcode process, Carbon Coder handles a wide array of critical operations including SD/HD conversion, PAL/NTSC conversion, logo insertion, color space conversion, color correction, Close Captioning extraction and more. Carbon Coder provides high-performance, scalable and cost-effective transcoding for a broad range of business environments, from specialized studios to enterprise-scale installations. Carbon Coder can be run via its user interface or via an XML-based API that is included with the product. The same API controls both Carbon Coder and Carbon Server.

Supported Formats

Video Codecs

  • MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
  • H.263, H.264, VC-1, Flash
  • DV25, DV50, DVCPro
  • DPS, DivX, JPEG 2000
  • Image Sequences
  • Windows Media, RealVideo

Media Containers

  • HDV
  • MXF (including D-10/IMX)
  • MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-2 TS
  • GXF, LXF, QuickTime
  • WMV, ASF, AVI, VOB
  • 3GPP, 3G2
  • WMA, WAV, Broadcast WAV

Audio Codecs

  • PCM, MP3, DTS
  • AAC, AMC, AMR-NB
  • WM Audio, RealAudio

Systems

  • Leitch VR, Nexio
  • Grass Valley Profile, K2
  • Omneon Spectrum
  • Quantel sQ
  • Avid Editing Systems
  • Apple Final Cut Pro
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Grass Valley Edius

Additional Functions

Basic Operations

  • Frame size conversion
  • Frame rate conversion
  • Color space conversion
  • Aspect ratio conversion
  • Interlace/de-interlace
  • Telecine/inverse telecine
  • PAL/NTSC conversion
  • SD/HD conversion
  • Cropping
  • Key-frame extraction
  • Multiple target outputs
  • Batch processing

Advanced Operations

  • Timecode imprint
  • Subtitle/CC imprint
  • XML controllable titler
  • Metadata transport/conversion
  • Line 21/CC conversion
  • Watermarking
  • Logo insertion
  • 601/709 color space support
  • Video capture board support
  • Remote job submission
  • Watch folder automation
  • Segment extraction/insertion

Video Filtering

  • Fade in/out
  • Median
  • Blur
  • Sharpen
  • NTSC-safe
  • Rotate
  • Black/white correction
  • Color correction
  • Gamma correction
  • Temporal noise reduction

Audio Filtering

  • Normalize
  • Low-pass
  • Fade In/Out
  • Volume
  • Dynamic range compressor

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