Episode

Episode is a powerful cross-platform desktop media encoding application for Mac and Windows. It offers the highest quality and fastest desktop encoding for content repurposing for distribution to Web, DVD, mobile phones and portable devices. Includes: extensive format support in/out including superior quality Flash 8/9 encoding, presets and filters, watch folders, batch processing of 25 jobs and Compressor plug-in.

 

Format Flexibility

• Current and emerging video & audio file format support: SD & HD, in and out

• Import virtually any file format, including broadcast/professional formats

• Encode to WM9, VC-1, Flash 8/9, H.264, MPEG-1/-2/-4, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV, QT and much more

Speed

• Fastest encoding speeds available in a desktop encoder

Ultimate Quality

• Optimized codecs, filters extensive fine-tuning compression capabilities allow you to generate the highest-quality media files

• Superior Flash 8/9 quality included

Easy to Use

• Intuitive user interface with powerful preview window

• Predefined or customized encoding settings for beginners & pros alike

• Watch folders for automated encoding

• Batch processing of up to 25 jobs

Scalable: desktop to server solution

• Upgrade to Episode Pro to get advanced professional formats and increased capacity with unlimited batch processing

• Upgrade to scalable server-based Episode Engine with ultra-fast job processing for high-volume, time-critical workflows

WHAT’S NEW

Version 6.5:

• NEW! Added support for VP9 (encode)

• NEW! Added support for HEVC (encode and decode)

• NEW! Added support for XAVC (encode and decode)

• NEW! Added Closed Caption support in MXF (input and output)

• NEW! Added frame rate conversion support for Closed Captions

• NEW! Added support for MCC captioning files (input)

• NEW! Added JSON-RPC API

• NEW! Added support for Images Sequences in the UI

• NEW! Added support for Images Sequence Watch Folders in the UI

• NEW! Added DASH Streaming

• NEW! Added all multi bitrate streaming formats in t