High-Speed Distributed Enterprise Transcoding

Multiple Carbon Coder nodes can be configured as a rendering farm, controlled by one or more Carbon Servers. Distributed enterprise transcoding with Carbon Server provides maximum flexibility, future-proofing and cross-vendor interoperability. Carbon Server allows for automated processing of high-volume transcoding tasks, as well as pre-emptive special case jobs, managing job distribution, job prioritisation, load balancing, FTP transfer, status monitoring, and job notification.

All interaction with the server software is through an administrative Web interface that can be accessed from remote machines. Carbon Sever can be run via its user interface or via an XML-based API that is included with the product. The same API controls both Carbon Coder and Carbon Server.

Additional Features:-

• Basic Operation:
  Frame size conversion
  Frame rate conversion
  colour space conversion
  Aspect ratio conversion
  Interlace/de-interlace
  Telecine/inverse telecine
  PAL/NTSC conversion
  SD/HD conversion
  Cropping
  Key-frame extraction
  Multiple target outputs
  Batch processing
  
  
• Advanced Operation:
  Timecode imprint
  Subtitle/CC imprint
  XML controllable titler
  Metadata transport/conversion
  Line 21/CC conversion
  Watermarking
  Logo insertion
  601/709 colour space support
  Video capture board support
  Remote job submission
  Watch folder automation
  Segment extraction/insertion
  
  
• Video Filtering:
  Fade in/out
  Median
  Blur
  Sharpen
  NTSC-safe
  Rotate
  Black/white correction
  colour correction
  Gamma correction
  Temporal noise reduction
  
  
• Audio Filtering:
  Normalise
  Low-pass
  Fade In/Out
  Volume
  Dynamic range compressor

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
  
• H.263, H.264, VC-1, Flash
  
• DV25, DV50, DVCPro
  
• DPS, DivX, JPEG 2000
  
• Image Sequences
  
• Windows Media, RealVideo
  
• PCM, MP3, DTS
  
• AAC, AMC, AMR-NB
  
• WM Audio, RealAudio
  
• HDV
  
• MXF (including D-10/IMX)
  
• MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-2 TS
  
• GXF, LXF, QuickTime
  
• WMV, ASF, AVI, VOB
  
• 3GPP, 3G2
  
• WMA, WAV, Broadcast WAV

• Adobe Premiere Pro
  
• Apple Final Cut Pro
  
• Avid Editing Systems
  
• Quantel sQ
  
• Grass Valley Edius
  
• Omneon Spectrum
  
• Grass Valley Profile, K2
  
• Leitch VR, Nexio

Carbon Coder is a universal transcoding application that facilitates the transfer of media between acquisition, editing, playout, archive, Web, mobile and more. Supporting all major formats (currently more than 40), Carbon Coder is continually updated to accommodate new formats. Carbon Coder can run as a stand-alone application or as part of a multi-node, fully-automated rendering farm under the control of Carbon Server.

As part of the transcode process, Carbon Coder handles a wide array of critical operations including SD/HD conversion, PAL/NTSC conversion, logo insertion, colour space conversion, colour correction, Close Captioning extraction and more. Carbon Coder provides high-performance, scalable and cost-effective transcoding for a broad range of business environments, from specialised studios to enterprise-scale installations. Carbon Coder can be run via its user interface or via an XML-based API that is included with the product. The same API controls both Carbon Coder and Carbon Server.

Carbon 3.13 introduces a number of new features, which include support for new codecs, improved performance, new intuitive managements of automated transcoding processes and many more.

1. XDCam Importer Enhancement - added the ability to import XDCam EX files.

2. Avid DNxHD Importer Enhancement - Carbon 3.13 can now import MXF wrapped Avid DNxHD source material which follows the OPATOM standard.

3. Panasonic AVCIntra - Carbon 3.11 can now import and export Panasonic's AVCIntra codec.

4. H.264 Exporter Enhancement - with Carbon 3.11 you can now create MP4-wrapped H.264 video with Dolby Digital audio.

5. DPX Importer Enhancement - Carbon 3.11 can now import timecode from a DPX sequence as well as associated information, such as colour correction data, contained in separate LUT file.

6. Carbon Hardware Platform - with Carbon Server or Carbon Coder pre-installed.

7. Video Timecode Inject Filter - Allows you to manually set the Start Timecode of a target. This can be controlled through the Carbon Coder application as well as the API.

Additional Functions

Basic Operation:

• Frame size conversion
  
• Frame rate conversion
  
• Colour space conversion
  
• Aspect ratio conversion
  
• Interlace/de-interlace
  
• Telecine/inverse telecine
  
• PAL/NTSC conversion
  
• SD/HD conversion
  
• Cropping
  
• Key-frame extraction
  
• Multiple target outputs
  
• Batch processing

• Fade in/out
  
• Median
  
• Blur
  
• Sharpen
  
• NTSC-safe
  
• Rotate
  
• Black/white correction
  
• Colour correction
  
• Gamma correction
  
• Temporal noise reduction

• Timecode imprint
  
• Subtitle/CC imprint
  
• XML controllable titler
  
• Metadata transport/conversion
  
• Line 21/CC conversion
  
• Watermarking
  
• Logo insertion
  
• 601/709 colour space support
  
• Video capture board support
  
• Remote job submission
  
• Watch folder automation
  
• Segment extraction/insertion

• Normalise
  
• Low-pass
  
• Fade In/Out
  
• Volume
  
• Dynamic range compressor