Video Workflow Design

Telestream Vantage combines media capture, transcoding, clip management, analysis, QC, and metadata processing into one unified video workflow design and automation framework.  Vantage integrates with all the major broadcast servers, edit systems, streaming servers, cable VOD servers, SANs and virtually any network digital device in your facility to improve your video operations—without disrupting your video operations.

Telestream Vantage Transcode simplifies media conversion in today's multi-format, multi-vendor video environments. Video and audio are automatically converted with metadata between all the major SD and HD broadcast servers, edit system, streaming server, cable VOD server, web, mobile and handheld file formats.

Save time, effort and money

Vantage Transcode eliminates 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 – saving you time, effort and money.

Consistent, hands-free processing

Vantage is your professional media processing system. Set up automated workflows once for consistent, high-quality results every time. Simply set rules for where to look for your source files, what to do with them and where to deliver them. Vantage automatically monitors FTP, network or local folders for the arrival of new content, enhances media with preprocessing filters for high-quality output, transcodes and delivers your media – and sends email notifications.

Formats for SD & HD workflows

Vantage Transcode converts from virtually any source format to a broad range of web, mobile, edit, and VOD formats: WMV/VC-1, H.264, Flash 8 & 9, 3GPP, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QT, MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA, AMRNB, SD & HD Program Stream, SD & HD Transport Stream, and more. Exclusive Motion Resolve technology up converts SD interlaced content to superior quality 1080i and 720p HD output. With ongoing support for evolving formats, you can rest assured that you'll have a content repurposing

Vantage Transcode Pro provides the industry's deepest and broadest support for all the major professional video and audio file formats, systems and wrapper variants. In addition to web, mobile edit and VOD, Transcode Pro offers complete format support for IPTV, MXF and all leading SD and HD broadcast server formats. HD VANC is preserved or inserted. Optional Dolby E decode or pass through is also supported. Media files can be delivered through FTP and network folders automatically.

Enhance your workflow

Vantage also offers options and an upgrade path to enhance your workflow. Add Pipeline™ to ingest media from tape or live sources. Add Vantage Analysis to create “smart” transcoding workflows, which can automatically analyze source media and metadata, allowing the design of decision-making workflows that use analysis results during transcoding. Brand and localize your video assets with Graphics Factory which tailors your media per region or source file. Upgrade to Vantage Workflow to automate sidecar metadata transformation, monitoring of and delivery to broadcast servers using proprietory protocols, and web services notification.

Scalable, rock-solid server software

Vantage Transcode runs on your favorite Windows 2003, 2008 or XP Pro server. Optimized for server architectures, Vantage Transcode ensures high performance. Automatic pause-and-resume capability ensures that high priority media is processed as quickly as possible. Adding Vantage Array allows for full scalability, load-balancing and redundancy, giving you 24/7 reliability and auto-failover. Processing can take place on one or multiple load-balanced servers providing high-volume processing to meet your exact media workflow needs

Best in class customer support

You can rest assured that our highly-skilled technical team will be available to provide the quick and comprehensive support and guidance you need to fully leverage the power of your Telestream product.

Features & Benefits

Vantage Workflow

 Features:

·         Powerful and flexible workflow design and automation software; revolutionizes capture, transcoding, clip management, analysis/QC, metadata graphics assembly
 
Integrates into existing video operations, using existing video systems

·         Workflow design tools uniquely separate video processes from media/metadata

·         Scales up to automate thousands of different workflows

·         Includes workflow design and automation tools, all Broadcast server and edit system workflow support, metadata processing, clip management, integrated web services notification

·         Rock-solid server software, 24/7 reliability, auto-failover

Benefits:

·         Flexibility to design & manage virtually any video process – out of the box - Eliminates need for software engineers to design custom processes
 

·         Automates workflows that were previously impossible to automate - Self-healing workflows that react to errors and fix them automatically

·         Flexibility to stop worrying about cost savings & start being competitive
 

·         Affordable, modular, allows migration to IT as needed, without disrupting existing systems
 

·         Built to serve the next generation of video operations

Vantage Transcode

Features:

·         Broad format support: SD and HD edit systems, web, mobile, streaming servers, VOD.

·         Vantage Transcode Pro adds: IPTV, broadcast servers, MXF

·         Deep format support: VANC, timecode, multiple audio streams, captions

·         Optimized for speed 

·         FTP/Network folder workflow support

·         Built upon award-winning FlipFactory technology 
 

Benefits:

· Automates transcoding and file-based delivery

· Easy to install and use with graphical UI

· Upgradable to Vantage Workflow

Vantage Analysis

Features:

·         Option for Transcode/Transcode Pro and Workflow

·         Automates QC and video/audio analysis

·         Analyzes more video file formats than any other solution

·         Compares against master videos to detect errors

·         Analyzes video content and acts upon the results
 

Benefits:

·         Avoids costly production errors  

·         Automates today’s eyes-on manual processes

·         Upgradable to Vantage Workflow

Save time and money

with FlipFactory workflow automation applications

Telestream FlipFactory is the fast, powerful, scalable way to automate media workflows between all major video and audio file formats and transfer media and metadata files between all major professional systems.

Save time, effort and money

Anyone who creates and distributes lots of digital media will love FlipFactory — and enjoy immediate savings in time, effort and money.

FlipFactory eliminates tedious manual transcoding, cumbersome handling of tape and the need for digital-to-analog conversions just to get your media to its destinations. FlipFactory allows you to automatically reformat your media between virtually any file format or wrapper, enhance your media and move your media to destination systems — seamlessly, effortlessly, all-digitally.

Consistent, hands-free processing

FlipFactory is your professional media processing factory. Set up factories once for consistent, high-quality output results every time. Simply set rules for where to look for your sources files, what to do with them and where to deliver them.

From ingest to playout, FlipFactory automatically monitors folders and systems for the arrival of new content, enhances media with pre-processing filters, transcodes your media into virtually any digital output format, delivers your media to destination servers and systems, and sends you notifications.

Models and options for any workflow

FlipFactory is a vital tool for the world's leading broadcasters, major media companies, enterprises and service providers as well as smaller corporations and production companies. We have models and options to meet any digital media workflow requirement, including publishing to the web or mobile devices, exchange between professional/broadcast systems, commercial ingest at broadcast and cable facilities and integration with content management systems.

FlipFactory also offers the ability to ingest media from tape or live sources, analyze source media and metadata including user generated content, add watermarking to protect your assets, add branding to monetize your assets, plus add graphic overlays and subtitling.

Peace of mind integration

 With a well-documented software development kit, FlipFactory seamlessly integrates with third-party solutions to automate any workflow application. In fact, FlipFactory is the most integrated transcoding engine in the media and entertainment industry.

Scalable, reliable server software

FlipFactory runs on your favorite Windows 2008* or XP Pro server. Since it's fully scalable, processing can take place on one or multiple load-balanced servers providing high-volume processing and redundancy to meet your exact media workflow needs.

For ultimate reliability in critical workflows, add FactoryArray™ to ensure continuous, uninterrupted job processing. FactoryArray extends any FlipFactory product from a single server to an array of servers working together to process jobs in the most efficient and secure manner possible. Failover protection and database mirroring combine to ensure that no single point of failure will ever bring your system down.

Best in class customer support

Customers rely on our proven expertise in transcoding and workflow automation to meet their challenging multi format workflow needs. You can rest assured that our highly-skilled technical team will be available to provide the quick and comprehensive support and guidance you need to fully leverage the power of your Telestream product.

The Ultimate Desktop Media Encoder

Leading the way in speed, quality and ease of use  

Telestream’s Episode Encoder is a powerful, easy-to-use, cross-platform desktop media encoding application for Mac and PC. It offers the highest quality and fastest encoding for content repurposing and distribution to new media channels: Web, DVD and portable devices including iPod, iPhone and other mobile phones. Episode Encoder brings you ultimate encoding power, and a rich feature set to control your media.

Ultimate Quality and Format Support

Episode Encoder is the future-proof solution that offers extensive support for current and emerging video and audio file formats, including HD resolutions in and out. Optimized codecs, filters and extensive fine-tuning compression capabilities allow you to generate the highest-quality media files. Episode Encoder includes Flash 9 and Flash 8 (VP6s, VP6e), Windows Media, H.264, MPEG-1/-2/-4, VC-1, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV, other QuickTime codecs and more.

Episode Encoder Pro adds support for high-end professional formats, such as GXF, MXF (XDCam), H.264 High Profile, DVCPRO HD (with Apple’s Final Cut Pro), Transport Stream, mobile multi-bit rate and more.

Ease-of use

The intuitive user interface gives you complete hands-on control of the encoding process. Choose from a wide range of predefined encoding settings designed by experts, or create your own custom ones. With the powerful preview window you can analyze your settings results before encoding. Set up watch folders to let Episode Encoder automatically encode files that are dropped into them.

On the Mac platform, integration* with Apple’s Compressor 3 allows jobs to be submitted directly from the Final Cut Pro timeline. This adds immediate access from Final Cut Pro to virtually every video file format available.

Scalability

Episode Encoder is the scalable solution that grows with your media workflow needs. Scale up from Episode Encoder to Episode Encoder Pro and get advanced professional formats and increased capacity with unlimited batch processing. From either Episode Encoder or Episode Encoder Pro the upgrade path to Telestream’s Episode Engine* provides server-based solutions with faster, high-volume job processing for time-critical workflows.

Ingest using Telestream’s Pipeline

Capture video into Episode Encoder in real time with Telestream’s Pipeline in one single workflow. Pipeline is a network-based capture device that supports scheduled record of live feeds, log and capture from tape, or manual record. Material is ingested directly into the batch, ready to be encoded by Episode Encoder.  

Features

• Batch – process in the background; prioritize encoding and add files and settings to the batch while running; edit jobs; create MBR jobs; set CPU priority and memory usage; create bookmarks to source folders; copy and paste settings onto multiple sources. Limited to 25 jobs. (unlimited in Pro)

• Watch folder support – drop a file into a specified folder for automated encoding

• Preview – A/B comparison, auto-update, dynamic frame preview, bitrate analysis*, play functionality

• More than 500 professional settings templates – for ease-of-use. No compression knowledge needed. 

• Settings manager – to create your custom settings

• Support for up to 16 audio channels – channel mapping filter for 16 channels included. 

• Scalable to Episode Engine* server-based solution

• Bumpers and trailers – add intro and outro movies to your content

• Picture-in-Picture – add a picture, animation or a movie as a watermark

• Support for metadata

• Closed captions – Pass-through of EIA-608 and EIA-708 in ATSC A/53, SCTE- 20 and VBI in-band Closed Captions when encoding MPEG-2 video; conversion of NTSC-CC types including VBI in-band to EIA-608 or SCTE-20

• Support for alpha channels

• Advanced deinterlace filters – produce the best possible progressive output even when the source material has been edited and cut

• Full field order handling

• 2-pass encoding – (H.264, WMV, MPEG2/4, H.263) for maximum quality

• Hinting (streaming) – according to IETF, ISMA and 3GPP

• Resizing and resampling algorithms – give the best quality for small-screen, low-bandwidth display devices and when upscaling from SD to HD

• Automatic input format detection – video codec, audio codec, color sampling, frame rate, pixel aspect, audio sampling

• Frame-rate conversion – NTSC to/from PAL: 3:2 pulldown, 2:3 pulldown

• Inverse telecine – even when the source material has been edited and cut

• Fully configurable advanced color preprocessing filters – (black and white restoration, HSV and gamma correction, noise removal, image sharpening…)

• Pipeline integration* – capture video directly to your encoding batch

• Advanced audio filtering – including normalize, balance, fade in/out...

Pro adds:

• Unlimited batch processing

• High-end professional formats

• Support for Flip4Mac MXF import components   

Output Formats

Episode Encoder provides superior format support for Web, Mobile, Apple TV, iPod, PSP, DVD, IPTV and Broadcast.

For example:

• Web: Flash 9 (H.264)

Flash 8 (VP6s, VP6e)

Windows Media 9 (VC-1, WMA Pro, WMV, Intellistream MBR)

H.264

QuickTime formats

• Streaming / Mobile:

3GPP, 3GPP2, MP4 (MPEG-4, H264, AMR, AAC)

Windows Media 9

• Apple TV:

H.264

• iPod/iPhone:

H.264, MPEG-4, AAC

• IPTV:

MPEG-2

• DVD and Blue-Ray:

MPEG-2

• Audio only:

AAC, MP3, WMA

Pro adds:

• Editing / Post Production:

Apple ProRes 422*, DNX HD*

• IPTV/Video On Demand: MPEG-2 (CableLabs) transport streams,

H.264 transport streams, VC-1

• Streaming / Mobile:

MP4 (HE-AAC)

• Broadcast: Windows Media 9 (WMA Pro surround sound)

GXF, MXF (XDCam),

AMC Transport Streams (.ts), 3GPP multi bitrate

Transcode any format faster-than-real-time

Telestream’s Episode Engine is the smart choice for broadcast, post-production and new media workflows. Professionals worldwide rely on Episode Engine’s broad format support, scalability and automation to deliver unprecedented speed, performance and value. Episode Engine is ideal for businesses in need of an automated and scalable solution for new media, post production or broadcast workflows.

Extensive Format Support

Episode Engine allows you to transcode most input formats to a wide range of output formats such as Flash 8/9, Windows Media, H.264 and much more. Repurpose media for websites, mobile phones, iPod, Sony PSP and other mobile devices, television, archiving, DVD and more. Whatever your encoding needs may be, Episode Engine can handle them.

Outstanding Quality and Ease of Use

Excellent quality is the trademark of Episode Engine. Plenty of easily adjustable filters allow you to fine-tune your media to achieve the highest quality output results.

Automation

Episode Engine can be integrated into any media encoding workflow environment. Simply setup your input monitors, and Episode Engine will automatically begin the transcoding process. With the input monitors you can monitor for example local files, FTP servers. You can remotely follow the progress of your jobs from any Mac OS X computer. Event intelligent deployment and notification scripts in Episode Engine facilitate for easy, automated integration with your production workflow.

Episode Engine Pro

For professional time-critical productions, requiring professional formats and the highest encoding speed available on the market, the Pro version of Episode Engine is the right option. Additional format support in Episode Engine Pro includes high-end broadcast formats such as MXF, GXF, H.264 High Profile and Transport Streams.

Ultimate Speed - Split-and-Stitch

Episode Engine and Episode Engine Pro provide ultra fast server-based media transcoding. They are massively scalable to keep pace with the growth of your business. Start with an Episode Engine; when your transcoding needs increase, you can easily add additional servers to create a cluster and use the full power of parallel encoding.

Episode Engine Pro also includes our unique Split-and-Stitch* functionality, providing speeds up to several times faster than real time, for any output format, such as Flash 8, Windows Media, H.264 and much more. If you are working with HD material and have a time-critical setup, upgrade to Episode Engine Pro and real time HD encoding is a snap!

Engine SDK

The Episode Engine SDK provides the tools you need to integrate Episode Engine into your workflows. It consists of several interfaces from command line to independent web services.

High Availability

In addition Episode Engine Pro offers a High-Availability option with a redundant master node for 24/7 reliability in your mission-critical workflow.

Features

• Input monitoring – browse and monitor folders over file servers (FTP, SMB) or local files

• Engine SDK – enables easy integration to any workflow

• Scalable through clustering – you can cluster several Episode Engines

• Easy deployment and notification – with intelligent metadata driven scripts

• Bumpers and trailers – add intro and outro movies to your content

• Transcode or edit while ingesting your content – integrate with Telestream’s Pipeline

• Picture-in-Picture – add a picture, animation or a movie as a watermark

• 10 bits 4:4:4 – Support for formats like RED, DPX, ProRes, Uncompressed

• Support for metadata

• Closed captions – Pass-through of EIA-608 and EIA-708 in ATSC A/53, SCTE- 20 and VBI in-band Closed Captions when encoding MPEG-2 video; conversion of NTSC-CC types including VBI in-band to EIA-608 or SCTE-20

• Support for alpha channels

• Advanced deinterlace filters – produce the best possible progressive output even when the source material has been edited and cut

• Advanced standard conversions – with quality comparable to hardware standard  Converters

• 2 pass encoding – (H.264, WMV, MPEG2/4, H.263) for maximum quality

• Hinting (streaming) – according to IETF, ISMA and 3GPP

• Resizing and resampling algorithms – give the best quality for small-screen, low-bandwidth display devices and when upscaling from SD to HD.

• Automatic input format detection – video codec, audio codec, color  sampling, frame rate, pixel aspect, audio sampling

• Frame-rate conversion – NTSC to/from PAL: 3:2 pulldown, 2:3 pulldown

• Inverse telecine

• Fully configurable advanced color preprocessing filters – (black and white resto-ration, HSV and gamma correction, noise removal, image sharpening…) ensuring the highest quality

• Advanced audio filtering – normalize, balance, fade in/out, high/low pass and more

Pro adds:

• Split-and-Stitch – distributed transcoding for all output formats enables maximum transcoding speed

• High Availability option – for full robustness in cluster installations

• SNMP – System Management for network monitoring

Output Formats

Episode Engine provides superior format support for Web, Mobile, Apple TV, iPod, PSP, VOD, DVD, IPTV and Broadcast.

For example:

• Web: Flash 9 (H.264) Flash 8 (VP6s, VP6e) Windows Media 9 (VC-1, WMA Pro, WMV, Intellistream MBR) H.264 QuickTime formats 

• IPTV/Video On Demand:

MPEG-2 (CableLabs) transport streams,

H.264 transport streams, VC-1

• Streaming / Mobile:

3GPP, 3GPP2, MP4 (MPEG-4, H264, AMR, AAC)

Windows Media 9 

• Apple TV:

H.264 

• iPod/iPhone: 

H.264, MPEG-4, AAC 

• DVD and Blue-Ray:

MPEG-2

• Audio only:

AAC, MP3, WMA Pro adds: 

• Editing / Post Production:

Apple ProRes 422, DNX HD

 • Streaming / Mobile:

MP4 (HE-AAC)

• Broadcast: Windows Media 9 (WMA Pro surround sound) GXF, MXF (XDCam), AMC, Transport Streams (.ts), 3GPP multi bitrate