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.

Video Codecs

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
• H.263, H.264, VC-1, Flash
• DV25, DV50, DVCPro
• DPS, DivX, JPEG 2000
• DNxHD, AVCIntra
• 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
• 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