Cinema Craft Encoder SP3 v1.0.3.1 Retail

Cinema Craft Encoder SP3 (CCE-SP3) is a high performance MPEG-2 encoder designed and optimized mainly for DVD, enabling you to create the ultimate level of picture quality at high speed.
Cinema Craft Encoder SP3 is a software-based encoder, and highly utilizes processors for the fastest encoding.
0 u2 d' l, o& W$ S7 LIt also implements highly intelligent and complicated algorithms to achieve the highest quality, which gives a great advantage over hardware encoders.
Some of them are totally innovative and unique technologies of Cinema Craft Encoder SP3.

Cinema Craft encoders produce pristine picture quality that is unmatched.
: \6 F! P/ x: ?! GWith support for Quicktime Reference Files and animation sequences (BMP, TGA, TIFF, PNG and JPEG), no studio should be without this tool.
+ c- U) y3 q; c* QCinema Craft Encoder SP3 is a standalone encoding application and does not include a plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro.
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) r0 c! p8 e3 W) f. h' C' VThere is a growing need for much higher picture quality in DVD production industry.
In addition to CCE-SP2, CCE-SP3 includes "CINEMA CRAFT Xtream" (CCX) encode engine that is highly rated by many compressionists around the world and has been utilised to create a considerable number of DVD titles.
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- L% |7 X: f2 W9 O• Sophisticated Motion Estimation
2 `# B# s1 f0 v0 @* Y• Automatic Field-based Scene Change Detection
• AAGS: Advanced Adaptive GOP Structure
• AAQM: Advanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix
! ~! W( v' b# L# P• VMPE: Virtual Multipass Encoding
• I-Frame Insertion            
( o! u4 g7 H! F2 u: c: p4 M• Segment Re-encoding            
8 E! K/ }; s9 P$ X" H3 `• Pre-Filtering (noise reduction, linear and non-linear filters)            
• VBR Bitrate Allocation Graph
• Hybrid encoding engine (CCX/CCE)
• Optimized for CPU (Maximum 8-core)
& P0 F2 r. p4 o! N8 L. M9 J• High-quality and high-speed encoding by file input
" |3 S) h8 O* M" O7 i9 v• Multipass encoding
# J. |1 m5 H* j+ T" o• Easy and Flexible Inverse 3:2 Pulldown with i32 file

Encode engine enabling high picture quality
CCE-SP3 includes Virtual Multi-Pass Encoding, Advanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix and Advanced Adaptive GOP Structure.
3 C& P6 d3 G1 u9 ~% c+ a+ ~9 N; N% e7 |The latter features can automatically optimize for the best quantize matrix and GOP structure for each GOP.

Cinema Craft Xtream (CCX) Encode Engine
, |- g; m- d  `. V) k. SThe CCX engine is highly regarded as the finest MPEG encoder engine in existence.
Cinema Craft encoders are used to produce a long list of released Hollywood DVD titles. What used to be the domain of sophisticated hardware systems produced by Cinema Craft is now available to you.
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Multi-Core Processor Support
% R5 }! {& ~$ s' g5 {# kWith the advent of multi-core processors, it is like having a team doing the work of one.
6 Z3 u2 s1 |- D5 t5 HParticularly with a CPU-intensive task such as MPEG encoding, it is good to split the calculations among multiple processors equally.
With eight cores, each encodes 1/8 of the content resolution.
This can make processing go very fast indeed, resulting in multi-pass quality that can be attained in faster than real-time.

Virtual Multi-Pass Encoding
During an encode, there is a tremendous amount of processing. These calculations help to build a sophisticated processing model that gets smarter with each pass.
Cinema Craft Encoder SP3 not only does multi-pass encoding of the source, it also adds the sophistication of performing virtual passes in memory when scene changes and complex transitions warrant extra care in tuning the model.

- `3 k, l6 j! _" s! VAdvanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix
Perhaps the one area where the CCX engine really shines above all other encoders is the level of sophistication given to the routines that perform quantization.
9 X5 y. I* E3 \' f* y1 |* _MPEG is highly compressed and a lot of visual information has to be discarded.
You want the end result to look good, not fuzzy.
Most encoders simplify this step.
, \: P% d; Y% U# w$ ~3 @& n; |Cinema Craft Encoder SP3 adds GOP-level adaptation of the quantization matrix, continually adjusting to changes in luminance, light levels and motion.
During each pass, the quantization becomes more exact. The result is awesome picture quality.

$ x+ j6 }) W  @  \* AAdvanced Adaptive GOP Structure
Another CCX exclusive is the added sophistication of varying the size of the GOP structure depending upon its analysis of the content.
3 @% H. P4 i+ Z& U3 F5 A" kMost encoders have a fixed GOP size and placement of the I, B and P frames. Not Cinema Craft Encoder SP3. It adjusts the size depending upon motion and scene changes.
When there is high motion in a scene, it will reduce the size of the GOP to produce a more accurate picture.
! \9 _* B% K" f+ W4 gLikewise, it will increase the GOP size with scenes that have low motion.

& ]3 \" u+ c3 ~Segment Re-Encoding
Segment Re-Encoding improves productivity because by eliminating re-encodes of the entire source every time you make a change.
7 p4 \7 j: W$ E1 RYou can re-encode only the specified part of file with it.
It is now possible to re-encode only the segment that has been changed, thus saving a lot of encode time when you are under a deadline.
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Filters
7 E5 ?, S# f5 B1 o, p2 K8 MThe high-performance filtering feature is implemented by using the unique algorithm.
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0 d( h( J- F- P( t2 A" C2 kInverse 3:2 pulldown
Highly accurate automatic 3:2 pulldown detection is available by the unique algorithm.
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Watch folder
Encode automatically the file copied into the specified folder just by specifying initial setup.
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Input formats:                  
" S/ u1 ^1 H2 h  H$ p     AVI           
     MOV (Quicktime)         
7 U: g; S( {! Q) R, v# |- W, Z     DV (file)         
& d7 F. H* y7 u# U- u( B4 ]: t, O     Quicktime reference         
     BMP (sequence)         
$ R3 b+ ^! i  I: p     TGA         
     TIFF         
6 T/ T) O! b# U  i# q. O0 _     PNG         
     JPEG
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* |, U, p  l2 SOutput formats:               
8 G" C6 A) T8 p) n  A7 J     MPEG1         
; i! x+ B8 K. J. {1 {/ u" F' [     MPEG2         
+ N; L( q9 l5 H     Video CD 2.0, SVCD 1.0
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: ^& G# B: R+ a$ VChanges from v1.0.2.1 to v1.0.3.11.0.3.1 (Monday, July 5, 2010):
) y4 a5 q$ B) U, G1 F- In marker list, timecodes will be shown instead of time.
- Changed so that when more than one source file are listed in the source list,
   two marker lists, one for each source file, and the other for all sources are shown.
- Changed so that frame number, time and time code of the frame viewer currently shown
   are displayed.
* O8 q+ y' g6 a% n, O) e  y- Changed so that viewer can directly move to the frame specified by user.
- Changed so that custom template can be specified when adding a new item.
" J( A& i& x2 U% A* A3 W8 w- Changed so that source files can be specified to command line parameters.
- Changed so that source files can be added directly to item list.
- Added source file properties window.
6 E# A' D) R; Z- Modified so that offset timecode can be set for each source file.
- Added shutdown option that is invoked when encoding is finished.
- Updated User's Guide

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