Products - Key Features
Media Encoding
Wave goodbye to the biggest headache of all..... media encoding! You all know what we mean here. You work with different systems on different jobs, they all need different encoding parameters and you spend all your time with your head buried in ProCoder when you should be being creative.
Well Hippotizer V3 changes all that. Find the files you want to use (regardless of current format), drag them into the folder structure you create and Hippotizer will automatically encode the media to the optimal settings instantly. Add multiple files and it'll batch encode. And while it's working away you can continue to use your Hippotizer as normal.
This innovative feature brings a stress-free element to those on-site situations where time is limited. Most media production houses like to output uncompressed Quicktime files. Ask them to send you any other format and they'll (rightly) grumble and you can bet your last penny that somewhere in the brief there's a parameter that fouls the whole process. Now, just ask them for the files in Quicktime and let Hippotizer do the rest. But don't worry if your client arrives with a mish mash of formats for you. Hippotizer will handle them all. VOB, AVI, Mpeg1, Mpeg2, Hippotizer will make light work of it.
Most media servers ask that you feed them files in a fixed size or aspect ratio. Hippotizer doesn't. It will respect the size and format of the files you add. So if you're working on a Hippotizer HD you can add 1920x1080 video, put in those little 400x300 features you created, throw in DV AVI files you captured from your camcorder and they'll stay that size. No waste of sytem overheads processing video at resolutions way beyond the source files.
And perhaps the most exciting feature, Hippotizer V3 will retain any alpha-channel information in the source files even though it encodes to Mpeg2. Yes you did read that correctly. If you have uncompressed Quicktime files with transparent areas, you will end up with an Mpeg2 file with the transparency retained. And if you haven't got transparency you can easily remove unwanted coluors such as black backgrounds using the mix modes such as Luma for fast and flexible build of multilayered compositions.
With show-specific file naming, tagging and grouping you can arrange your media into a logical layout for your show without messing up your personal archive of media. Start a new show and all your media reverts to the archive you've built up over the years. It couldn't be simpler.
