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Multi-format, multi-vendor transcoding

Vantage® transcoding products utilize the latest technologies to deliver pristine quality, exceptional processing speeds, plus the industry’s most extensive file format support. Dynamic, decision-based workflows can be designed for most any application. Vantage Transcode products can be used standalone, clustered using Vantage Array, or integrated using any of the Vantage Enterprise System Management products.

Vantage transcoding products allow you to:

• Bridge incompatible devices with faster-than-real-time file-based transcoding
• Automate standards-conversion and up-conversion workflows with exceptional visual quality
• Prepare content for broadcast, VOD, IPTV, web and mobile delivery
• Move transcoding and content ingest from edit and desktop systems to powerful servers

Vantage Transcode Pro Products

Vantage Transcode Pro products simplify media conversion in today’s multi-format, multi-vendor video environments. Video and audio are automatically converted with metadata between all the major broadcast servers, edit system, streaming server, cable VOD server, web, and mobile file formats.

Vantage Transcode Pro offers the industry’s deepest and broadest support for all the major professional video and audio file formats, systems, and wrapper variants. It converts from virtually any source format to a full range of web, mobile, edit, VOD, IPTV, MXF and all leading broadcast server formats. For broadcast content, HD VANC is preserved or can be inserted, and optional DolbyE decode or pass through is also supported.

Vantage Transcode Pro Connect adds the ability to automate XML sidecar metadata transformation, monitoring and delivery to broadcast servers using proprietary protocols, creation of TAR packages, and web services notification. It also adds integration with Avid Interplay, allowing ingest of media from Avid and delivery into Interplay.

Vantage Transcode Products

Vantage Transcode products simplify media distribution and editing in today’s multiformat, multi-vendor video environments. Video and audio are automatically converted to all major edit, web, mobile and MPEG-2 VOD file formats. Vantage Transcode products save you time, effort and money by eliminating tedious manual transcoding, cumbersome handling of tape, and the need for digital-to-analog conversions just to get your media into the right file format.

Vantage Transcode converts from virtually any source format to a full range of web, mobile, edit, and MPEG-2VOD formats. Exclusive Telestream technology up converts SD interlaced content to superior quality 1080i and 720p HD output; high-quality deinterlacing also allows the creation of exceptional web and mobile content.

Vantage Transcode Connect adds the ability to automate XML sidecar metadata transformation, the creation of TAR packages, and web services notification.

Lightspeed Server

Lightspeed Server can be added to any Vantage Transcode product to accelerate video processing and H.264 transcoding. Lightspeed Server accelerates Vantage video and H.264 processing with GPUs and multicore CPUs to provide the best image quality in the least amount of time. Housed in an efficient 1 RU server, Lightspeed Server reduces rack space, power and cooling requirements while meeting increased output capacity needs. Lightspeed Server accelerates image processing within Vantage workflows, including scaling, deinterlacing, frame rate conversion, motion vector calculation, and other tasks that require computation and analysis to modify or create new video frames. Faster video preprocessing acceleration benefits the output quality of all video output formats.

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