Canopus Debuts ProCoder Station Render Farm
April 15, 2005
San Jose, CA - Canopus will unveil its ProCoder Station Render Farm solution next week at NAB.
ProCoder Station Render Farm is a network-based encoding solution that combines speed and flexibility in a streamlined encoding solution for production and broadcast facilities that have a high volume of transcoding jobs that need to be performed quickly, the manufacturer describes. Using the company's powerful ProCoder video encoding software, the ProCoder Station Render Farm provides an efficient solution for the distribution of multiple transcoding jobs to multiple ProCoder Station Render Farm machines through a single unified management interface.
ProCoder Station Render Farm is the perfect solution for facilities that find their encoding system overloaded with a large number of queued tasks and need a more efficient solution to handle the workload. Through a shared storage device, ProCoder Station Render Farm processes multiple jobs concurrently on separate Render Farm machines, resulting in more jobs being processed. The system also provides for efficient allocation of jobs to the Render Farm machines. Each machine is monitored to assign incoming job tasks to the least-busy machine, reducing the possibility of one or two machines being overworked while other machines are idle.
ProCoder Station Render Farm automatically encodes single or multiple sources to any number of output formats simultaneously and delivers the converted files to a LAN folder or by FTP, while creative work continues on the production system. ProCoder Station Render Farm features Canopus's high-quality, high-speed, industry recognized DV and MPEG-2 codecs. The Canopus DV codec provides the best picture quality preservation at the highest speed, while the MPEG-2 codec employs two-pass variable bitrate compression and advanced motion-estimation algorithms to provide the highest quality encoded video files By taking advantage of Canopus's Scalable Technology architecture to harness the power of current computer systems, ProCoder Station Render Farm can transcode files faster than realtime in many cases and is entirely customizable and scalable.
ProCoder Station Render Farm fully supports HD resolutions (720p and 1080i) and can transcode between HD and SD resolutions and frame rates seamlessly. ProCoder Station Render Farm can also transcode between HD-compatible formats, including MPEG, DivX, Windows Media High Definition Video (WMV HD) and QuickTime. For added flexibility, ProCoder Station supports MPEG transport streams, including HDV and broadcast-compatible HD streams.
Availability
ProCoder Station Render Farm will be available as an option for Canopus's ProCoder Station in May 2005 through Canopus authorized system integrators and VARs.
For more information, visit
www.canopus.com
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