Technical Specifications
Minimum
System
Requirements
- Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better.
- 2GB of RAM (4GB of RAM recommended).
- OpenCL-capable graphics card or
Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later. - 256MB of VRAM (512MB of VRAM recommended).
- Display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher.
- OS X v10.6.8 or OS X v10.7.5 or OS X v10.8.3 or later.
- 758MB of disk space.
High-
Performance
Encoding
- H.264 multipass encoding for Blu-ray discs and files.
- Support for red laser burning of AVCHD discs for playback in compatible Blu‑ray players.
- H.264 encoding for Apple devices, web and mobile devices.
- Support for image sequence sources: TIFF, Targa, DPX, JPEG and OpenEXR.
- Support for encoding HTTP live streaming.
- Support for encoding to TIFF, Targa, DPX, JPEG and OpenEXR image sequences.
- Full QuickTime support.
- MPEG-2 encoding.
- MPEG-1 encoding.
- MPEG-4 encoding.
- Two-pass VBR encoding for MPEG-2.
- Export to uncompressed 8-bit and 10-bit 4:2:2.
- Dolby-certified encoding to Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 format.
- Accepts QuickTime (single-channel or multichannel), AIFF, Sound Designer and WAV files.
- Advanced chaptering for Apple TV and podcasting.
- Closed-caption support for Apple devices, QuickTime and MPEG-2.
- Automatic setting creation via drag and drop of a QuickTime file.
- Scaling and down-converting.
- Standards conversions.
- Retiming.
- Preview with split-screen comparison.
- High-quality image processing.
- Batch templates with job actions for automating workflows from encoding to delivery, including:
- Add to iTunes Library
- Create DVD
- Create Blu-ray Disc*
- Create Web Reference Movie
- Open with Application
- Prepare for HTTP Live Streaming
- Run Automator Workflow
- Publish to YouTube
- Publish to Facebook
- Publish to Vimeo
- Publish to CNN iReport
- Send Email
- Podcast Producer Workflow
- More than 100 presets included.
- Automated encoding with Droplets.
- Automatic and custom cropping.
- Automatic and custom padding.
- Automatic copying of source media for reference media to encoding nodes.
- Automatic FTP.
- Reverse Telecine.
- Deinterlacing.
- Enhanced Droplets for easy desktop encoding.
Built-in
Distributed
Encoding
- Built-in setup for distributed encoding, including This Computer sharing options as well as the ability to create rendering jobs and administer clusters.
- Create Rendering Jobs option to run third-party process on available clusters.
- Full cluster administration tools including maximum number of jobs to be run, email notifications and security permissions.
Dolby Digital
Professional
Encoding
- Dolby-certified encoding to Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 format.
- Accepts QuickTime (single-channel or multichannel), AIFF, Sound Designer and WAV format sound files for encoding.
- Support for all channel formats from mono to 5.1 surround.
- Automatically creates 2.0 or 5.1 based on the number of channels in the source media file.
- Confidence decoding for preview of AC‑3 files.
Video Filters
- BlackWhite Restore.
- Brightness and Contrast.
- Color Correct Highlights.
- Color Correct Midtones.
- Color Correct Shadows.
- Deinterlacing.
- Fade In/Out.
- Gamma Correction.
- Letterbox.
- Noise Removal.
- Sharpen Edge.
- Text Overlay.
- Timecode Generator.
- Watermark (Image, animated with QuickTime or Motion files).
Audio Filters
- Dynamic Range.
- Peak Limiter.
- Apple: AUGraphicEQ.
- Fade In/Out.
