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Episode

Name: Episode
Price: 594.00 $
Rating: 3.1 (3 reviews)

6.4.4

15 August 2014

Professional media encoding application.

Overview

Episode is a powerful cross-platform desktop media encoding application for Mac and Windows. It offers the highest quality and fastest desktop encoding for content repurposing for distribution to Web, DVD, mobile phones and portable devices. Includes: extensive format support in/out including superior quality Flash 8/9 encoding, presets and filters, watch folders, batch processing of 25 jobs and Compressor plug-in.

Format Flexibility

Current and emerging video & audio file format support: SD & HD, in and out
Import virtually any file format, including broadcast/professional formats
Encode to WM9, VC-1, Flash 8/9, H.264, MPEG-1/-2/-4, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV, QT and much more

Speed

Fastest encoding speeds available in a desktop encoder

Ultimate Quality

Optimized codecs, filters extensive fine-tuning compression capabilities allow you to generate the highest-quality media files
Superior Flash 8/9 quality included

Easy to Use

Intuitive user interface with powerful preview window
Predefined or customized encoding settings for beginners & pros alike
Watch folders for automated encoding
Batch processing of up to 25 jobs

Scalable: desktop to server solution

Upgrade to Episode Pro to get advanced professional formats and increased capacity with unlimited batch processing
Upgrade to scalable server-based Episode Engine with ultra-fast job processing for high-volume, time-critical workflows

What's new in Episode

Version 6.4.4:

Added the ability to choose GOP size for Split and Stitch, Will force the number of frames in a split to
be divisible by the number selected.
Replaced the monitor code to optimize it and give it better stability.
Improvements to status across networks when joined by IP.
Fixed so that monitors that are active always show up as active.
Updated MXF to handle more input files.
Updated H.264 encoder to fix 10-bit 4:2:2 encodings.
Fixed channel order for QuickTime surround sound input files.
Fixed Quality Slider for MPEG-2 encodings.
Added switch to enable/disable SDSM and ODSM tracks in MP4-files.
Fixed so that renaming an encoder task won’t cause a duplicate on Mac.
Fixed so that SMB Deployment gets the right name on Mac.
Added x264 to Episode, Episode Pro and Episode Engine (no longer requires separate license)
Added Execute tasks, Image sequence imports, and mail tasks to Episode Pro and Episode Engine (no
longer requires separate license).
Fixed amount of memory reported on Windows.
Fixed the version number reported by CLI and XML-RPC

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I tried the demo version of Episode after feeling very limited by the lack of certain higher end features on applications like VisualHub and AudialHub, which i used for video and audio conversion respectively. They were both amazing applications for most purposes but have now regrettably been discontinued. Despite the extremely limiting 20 second clip demo conversions i was extremely impressed by the clean interface, smooth and uncomplicated conversion workflow, wide choice of codecs and presets, and the speed and quality of the results. This is definitely software that does what i need, and does it well, but there is one thing that is preventing me from purchasing. Yes the price is very high considering there are many decent cheap (or free) video converters out there, but you get what you pay for and Episode is a high end application with a smooth professional feel to it... So why then do they cripple their $500 high end software by imposing a 25 item batch limit?!?! I mean you have this amazing conversion engine which is the same on the desktop and pro versions, and i can understand paying extra for the pro version to gain the pro features like high quality broadcast and surround applications, but for $500 i would expect unlimited batch processing and wont pay this price for such a limitation.

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