Episode™ is a powerful desktop media encoding application for the Mac. It offers the highest quality and fastest desktop encoding for content re-purposing and distribution for Web, DVD, mobile phones and portable devices. Includes extensive format support, presets and filters, batch processing of 25 jobs, Compressor plug-in and Dashboard Widget.

Ultimate quality and format support
Episode is a future-proof software solution that offers extensive support for current and emerging video and audio file formats, up to HD resolutions in and out. Optimised codecs, filters and the most extensive fine-tuning compression capabilities on the market allow you to generate the highest-quality media files. Our optimised Flash 8 encoder option provides superior Flash 8 quality.

Episode includes MPEG-1/-2/-4, WM9, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV, other QuickTime codecs and more.

More choices. Hands on control
Episode’s intuitive user interface gives you complete hands-on control of the encoding settings. Choose from a wide range of advanced encoding settings, designed by experts. Use dozens of preset templates or create your own custom settings. An extensive range of video and audio filters, with powerful preview, let you analyse your setting results before the encoding begins.

Audio filters include balance, channel mixing, fade in/out, five-band equaliser, high pass/low pass filters and audio normalisation

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

Encoding. Performance. Ease of Use
Episode is a universal application optimised for Mac OS X Intel and PowerPC Macs. Features include multi-pass encoding for H.264, WMV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.263. Auto-batch encoding is enabled by simply dragging and dropping one or more media files to the Batch Job window.

Episode with Flash 8

Episode with Flash 8 includes all the features and functionality of Episode and adds the optimised Flash 8 encoder option, providing superior Flash 8 quality*.

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