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Episode is a powerful desktop media encoding application for the Mac. It offers the highest quality and fastest desktop encoding for content repurposing and distribution for Web, DVD and portable devices including Apple iPod, Sony Playstation Portable and mobile phones
Features
- Encode MPEG 1/2/4, Windows Media 9, VC_1, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV and other QuickTime codecs, Flash 8 encode is included
- Audio filters include balance, channel mixing fade in/out, five-band equalizer, high pass/low pass filters and audio normalization
- Video filters include timecode burn in, black and white restoration, contrast, fade, gamma correction, HSV levels, RGB filter, sharpen, smoothing, visible watermark, resize, de-interlace, fade in/out, inverse telecine and noise reduction
- Batch processing of up to 25 jobs
- Prioritize encoding
- Multiprocessor support
- Metadata support
- More than 80 professional setting templates
This version is not compatible with Compression Engine older than version 4.0
Version 5.0.1 - Several H.264 encoding options have been added:
- Slice count can be set for each encode
- CBR encode modes have been added
- Signaling of fixed or variable frame rate has been added
- Dialog Normalization setting has been added to ATSC A/52 audio encoder
- Pixel aspect control, and writing of 'pasp' atom, has been added to the QT video encoder
- A new deinterlace method, called Smooth Blending, has been added
- File dependency support has been added to the Engine API
Enhancements in 5.0.1
- Improved H.264 Quality
- Additional options have been added to the advanced frame rate filter
Fixed issues in 5.0.1
- Stability issues in the Episode Desktop UI have been resolved
- Several GXF import issues have been resolved
- Writing of video bit rate metadata has been fixed in WMV encodes.
- Problems with encoding Flash-8 with alpha channel have been fixed
- Stability fixes have been made concerning Flash-8 encoding
- Vp6-S Flash-8 can now be used as input
- End-of-sequence start code is written to MPEG-2 encodes
- Burning a user-defined timecode is now functional
- AAC can now be properly packetized in the “mpeg4-generic” format.
- Issues appearing when using 10-bit formats (such as ProRes HQ or Blackmagic) as input
on G5 machines have been resolved
- Pixel aspect ratio is now properly set in H.264 encodes
- WAV-files larger than 4GB are now supported as input
- Issue with green artifact at bottom of DV NTSC encodes has been fixed
- Fade filters can be used in Split-and-Stitch encodes
- Correct MPEG audio type (1 or 2) is flagged when exporting transport streams
G5+, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, QuickTime 7 or later.
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| Episode User Reviews (11 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Aug 17 2008 |
MAC ADAM Lots of Problems with MacPro by encoding VOB !!! Deamon Crash, or stop to works alone… Please Update
(Version 5.0.1) | |
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 | Feb 27 2007 |
DGOMBAU Aha - I tracked down (on SoftPedia). Trial version encodings are limited to 20 seconds. That is a shame - hardly enough to evaluate. I am sure that the developer loses potential sales that way. Many people (like me) make their purchase based on actual full use for one or two small projects, rather than the disabled or time-limited version. Here is some advice - if you prefer, shorten the evaluation period to just two weeks, but allow people to have full functionality to try for this time. That way, serious testers find out how good and indispensible the product really is, and will gladly pony up the dollars to buy. And if you are afraid that some people will exploit you and dowload a freebie so they can use it a few times then not buy it, do you think these users would buy it anyway? How about it guys? Here is a Cleaner user, waiting to take advantage of the cross-grade offer. I just want to try it properly before I decide.
(Version 4.2.2) | |
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| Feb 26 2007 |
DGOMBAU Downloaded this to evaluate and compare with Cleaner 6.5 as my video compression tool of choice, with a committed view to purchase if it excelled. However, I ran into a short time-limit on conversions. Was this the case? 30 days is plenty to evaluate, even 15 days. But a 30-second limit does not let me compare. I need to test the full capacity to render a couple files in total. Even a week's trial would be OK with a full version. But don't be parsimonious (stingy) with the length of clip. So what if a few people use it once or twice for a job they need and don't buy. You lose more sales to folks like myself who say, "Well, if I cannot really tell how good it is, I will pass." Or did I miss a setting somewhere? Very serious question.
(Version 4.2.2) | |
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| Jan 1 2007 |
JEFF H. Autodesk Cleaner is $599...this does a comparible job, and it's nearly $200 cheaper.
(Version 4.2.1) | |
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 | Feb 7 2007 |
CRAIGSEE Episode is $395, is updated more frequently and includes more codecs. If you own Cleaner you can crossgrade for only $195. http://www.flip4mac.com/episode_cleaner_offer.htm
(Version 4.2.2) | |
| Nov 9 2007 |
SHEIK YERBOUTY for 23$, Visualhub converted files that Episode Pro didn't. Ok, Visualhub might not be enough for professional users but it's still a great program. Actually it's an amazing program for 23 dollars. I have Episode Pro, but for my needs I have enough with Visualhub, much easier to use and converts allmost evey file a throw at. Can't say the same for Episode Pro.
(Version 4.4) | |
| Nov 6 2006 |
Looks good, but $400?!
(Version 4.1.3) | |
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| Sep 18 2006 |
NICELODEON HE-AAC+PS (aacPlus v2) doesn't work! At least on PPC. A real pitty as this is the only Mac software that supports it. Otherwise a great piece of software!
(Version 4.1.1) | |
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| Aug 8 2006 |
TURNTABLEROCKER Tried this version (4.0) as well as 4.0.1 from popwire website under 10.4.7 on a Dual G5 2GB system, but the application is closing down before the window can even open up. Also does not write ANY crash log. Tried uninstalling, turning off ANY other 3rd party applications, but still no go. | |
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 | Jun 2 2006 |
MADMACMAD i have tried Cleaner 6.5, Apple Compressor and Compression Master. Well to make it short Compression Master is for me the best one. The Software works now on Intel Mac's and has awesome Encoding Results with all Formats even Mpeg 2... Try it by yourself !!!
(Version 4.0) | |
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| May 18 2006 |
TOGGLEMEDIA I had been messing around with cleaner 6.5 trying to perform some basic video conversion, and it would crash at every step...I tried to troubleshoot and isolate why this was happening, but to no avail. So after stumbling upon Compression Master, I thought I would give it a try... and WOW!!! It has a great interface, and was "blazingly fast"...with not even a hiccup I encoded 10 files, in both QuickTime and WMV. Highly recommended. Comparatively cleaner 6.5 is a joke.
(Version 4.0) | |
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| Mar 13 2006 |
DVISION This is the most comprehensive video encoder for Mac OSX that I have seen yet. I found a U.S. Reseller as well: compressionx.com
(Version 3.2.2) | |
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