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 prioritization, 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 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

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:

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

Features:

Supported Format: Video Codecs Audio Codecs

• 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

Media Containers Systems

• 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

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

System Requirements Minimum Requirements

• Intel™ Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon
• 2 GHz CPU
• 2 GB RAM
• 100 MB free hard disk space
• DirectX 9.0 or later
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional or 2003 Server
• USB 1.1 or 2.0 port for USB Hardware Key

Recomended Requirements

• Intel Xeon 5160 or AMD Opteron
• dual-core; dual-processor configuration
• 3 GHz CPU
• 4 GB RAM
• RAIDed hard drive system for performance
• DirectX 9.0 or later
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional or 2003 Server
• USB 1.1 or 2.0 port for USB Hardware Key

• Spec Sheet
• Instruction Manual