shrink is an encoding application specifically geared for post-production and visual effects companies.

• Autodesk Wiretap access to Fire/Flame/Flint/Inferno/Smoke framestores.
• Non-Destructive Frame Burnin (visible or within QT Player controller).
• Non-Destructive Letterbox with any user input aspect ratio.
• Ability to delay Frame Burnin and Letterbox to account for slates.
• Crop video to a given aspect ratio.
• Automatic Notification on completion of each encode via iChat or E-Mail.
• Automatic Intelligent version naming.
• Automatic Format and Pixel Ratio detection.
• Bypass compression/scaling to quickly letterbox/frame burn clips for DVD.
• No installation or configuration on server neccessary.
• Intelligent use of mutli-cores/processors.
• Intelligent caching of network files.
• Use any 3rd party Quicktime codec installed on your Mac. (i.e. Sorenson Pro, Flip for Mac WMV)

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