Output to almost any file format
Today’s file-based video world demands greater flexibility than ever before in delivery formats.
Simple wrapper and bit rate changing is no longer enough for today’s sophisticated delivery workflows. You need to fully transcode and repurpose content into dozens of deliverables — not a task you can afford to carry out by hand.
As leaders in moving image technology, AmberFin iCR is loaded with more than 35 years of experience in picture processing algorithms to give you superior looking pictures even at low bit rates, keeping your storage, distribution and transmission costs down and helping you save money on each byte you produce.
With iCR, transcoding is more than just a wrapper change as we bring you the world’s best scaling, de-interlacing and film cadence processing available today.
iCR integrates advance audio routing, coding and rate manipulation as well as broad support for different audio formats.
Best picture-quality-to-bit-rate ratio on the market
Research conducted by User Analytics has revealed that AmberFin’s iCR software produces superior looking quality video content over that of its nearest competitor.
Over two thirds (68%) of those questioned preferred the picture quality of the video transcoded by iCR.
iCR is able to produce superior picture quality at an equivalent file size or better quality at lower files sizes — reduced by up to 25%. So you can rest assured you will always be able to deliver the optimum product for any given new media platform and any given bandwidth.
This may mean you can serve more customers if you are in the business of providing downloads or streaming on distribution channels with limited bandwidth. Or, you can choose to produce higher quality content for the same amount of money, allowing you to target premium customer segments. Either way, it’s more revenue working for you.
Break into HD using your existing SD assets
High definition (HD) encoding is notoriously difficult to do correctly and also one area where you absolutely cannot afford to take chances with the quality of your output. With HD acquisition formats ranging from consumer to high-end professional, you need the flexibility to ingest and process a wide range of source files and convert them to your house standards.
AmberFin iCR is designed to make the transition to a digital workflow as easy as possible and allows you to maximize the revenue potential of your content in HD or SD as required. iCR can easily convert between various formats, and features unrivalled scaling and deinterlacing technology to offer impressive SD/HD up, down and cross conversion capabilities.
Other systems may result in problems such as dropped frames; iCR not only ensures you get the highest-possible quality master, but also reliably provides high quality output to any required format.
Best SD/HD up-, down- and cross-conversion tools in the market
With unrivalled scaling and deinterlacing technology, AmberFin iCR offers the best SD/HD up, down and cross conversion tools in the market.
Designed to meet your needs of the SD/HD conversion process iCR is able to change aspect ratios; create letterbox or pillarbox images; crop regions of interest; add/remove 3:2 pull-down; convert interlaced video to progressive frames and slow down or speed up content.
Ingest to NLE transcoding integrated into your workflow
Automated transcoding is not just important in helping you get the maximum benefit from your outputs. It can also help you with other areas of your workflow.
A major challenge in many workflows is that ingest servers usually create files in a different format from those used by your non-linear editing (NLE) equipment.
AmberFin iCR offers native support for Avid DNxHD and Apple Final Cut Pro, offering instant interoperability with Avid and Apple editing systems. Switch to iCR for your delivery preparation and free up those edit suites to deliver their value for editing workflows. Similarly, you can ingest Pinnacle files in a format fully acceptable to Omneon.
Improve your efficiency with automated scalable transcoding
Wouldn’t it be great to go straight from ingest to output without having to touch your content?
With AmberFin iCR’s superior integration capabilities you can ingest from multiple sources, reformat and transcode seamlessly for editing and distribution in any format over any channel. iCR can help you do all this effectively by allowing you to set up process templates, so master file A can be transcoded on the fly during ingest into outputs X, Y and Z with no human intervention.
Think of the efficiency and profitability gains to your business if all of your personnel were dedicated to value-added work such as editing. Then introduce iCR to your workflow and enjoy the results.
Integrate transcoding into your workflow with web service and scripting integrations
AmberFin iCR’s simple to use graphical user interface (GUI) allows you to easily and quickly specify one-of-a-kind jobs and create templates that can be pre-defined to complete regular, repetitive work.
iCR’s strong scripting capabilities can easily take care of backups or automatically load clips onto an FTP or website, improving your workflow.
Maximize the value of your outputs
When dealing with output to various channels and formats, you essentially need to be able to do more things in less time.
AmberFin iCR allows you to control multiple transcoders from a single automation interface enabling you to split jobs over a render farm and vastly improve your throughput and produce more quality content, faster. Our job controller allows you to dispatch jobs from a single GUI ensuring that your workload is balanced across the iCR transcoder farm.
