Create Portable and DVD-ready Video - Blaingly Fast!
Engineered with hardware-based MPEG encoding technology, and designed with a PCI Express form factor, FireCoder generates MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files at blistering, faster-than-realtime speeds.
FireCoder is as versatile, as it is speedy! Use FireCoder to:
Capture video from DV and HDV cameras
Edit MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, including native HDV
Author and burn DVDs
Convert video into files compatible with Apple iPod® and Sony PSP™
Export video projects from Grass Valley EDIUS and Adobe® Premiere® Pro 1.x NLE software
The hardware-software combination featured in the FireCoder package provides a variety of ways to help you reduce the time it takes you to prepare your video.
Powered by Hardware, Driven by Software
Even with today's high-speed PCs, the time you spend waiting for your video projects to encode to MPEG format for DVDs or portable media devices can still stretch out to unbearable lengths. Instead of relying solely on the PC's CPU (as do software-only video editing, DVD authoring and format conversion products), the onboard MPEG encoding chip engineered into the FireCoder PCI Express board handles the tough encoding tasks.
The advantages of FireCoder are two-fold:
Speed - Create MPEG-2 files for DVDs and MPEG-4 files for portable media devices much faster - often more than twice the speed of realtime in most cases
Productivity - Free up your CPU for other work, while your video is being encoded.
FireCoder: Key Features
MPEG-2/MPEG-4 encoding hardware technology, incorporated into a high-speed PCI Express design
Faster-than-realtime MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video file creation
IEEE 1394 OHCI FireWire input for DV and HDV capture
Cut, stitch and trim MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and HDV video
Video format conversion software, supporting Windows Media®, DivX®, DV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and more
DVD authoring, "Watch" folder and batch conversion support
Timeline export plug-ins for Grass Valley EDIUS, Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.x
FireCoder: Specifications
Package Contents:
FireCoder PCI Express bus card
Installation CD-ROM (Device drivers, MPEG applications)
User Manuals
Technical Specifications (Hardware):
Video Input
1 x 6-pin IEEE 1394 FireWire
2 x 4-pin IEEE 1394 FireWire (for internal connection)
Video Resolutions
MPEG-2: 720x480, 720x576, 704x480, 640x480, 480x480, 352x480, 352x576, 352x240, 352x288, 320x480, 320x240, 176x120
MPEG-4: 720x480, 720x576, 704x480, 640x480, 480x480, 352x480, 352x576, 352x240, 320x240, 176x120
Video Frame Rate
MPEG-2: 29.97fps (NTSC), 25fps (PAL)
MPEG-4: 15fps (NTSC), 30fps (NTSC), 25fps (PAL)
Video Compression
MPEG-2: (ISO/IEC 13818-2) Main Profile @ Main Level (I, B, P frames) I-frame support only
MPEG-4: (ISO/IEC 14496-14)
Video Bitrate
MPEG-2: 128kbps - 15Mbps
MPEG-4: 32kbps - 8Mbps
Variable (one-pass) and Constant Bitrate support
Audio Sampling Rates
MPEG-2: 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz
MPEG-4: 24kHz, 48kHz
Audio Compression
MPEG-2: MPEG-1 Layer 2
MPEG-4: AAC
Audio Bitrates
MPEG-2: 96 to 384kbps
MPEG-4: 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, 144, 182, 224, 256, 288kbps
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Pentium D, Intel Pentium M, Intel Celeron® D, AMD Athlon™ XP Processor or AMD Athlon MP Processor CPU
256MB RAM or more (512 recommended)
200MB free hard disk space for the applications
DirectX 9.0c or later
Windows® XP Home (Service Pack 2 or later), Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or later), or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
One free PCI Express x1 slot
Service and Support:
3-year limited warranty
Access to the Canopus Registered Users Web site at www.canopus.com when you register your product in an active Canopus User Account.
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