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AmberFin iCR offers an automated ingest solution for Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid editing systems, which allows for significant time and cost savings for creative staff and equipment usage
Output to almost any file format
Profit from greater file flexibility with AmberFin’s iCR Repurposing
Today’s file-based video world demands greater flexibility than ever before in delivery formats.
Transcoding is not enough. You need to fully repurpose content into dozens of deliverables—not a task you can afford to carry out by hand.
You need a system that can do the work for you—and give you optimum results, every time. iCR Repurposing gives you the best picture quality at an equivalent file size or better quality at lower files sizes, along with one of the widest ranges of file output formats.
And since it is built for integrated, automated processing, iCR Repurposing makes it easy to create a factory-line approach to repurposing, allowing you to obtain the highest possible rewards from your content in the shortest possible time.
Benefit from new media business
New media channels such as the internet and mobile are a potential market for your content—as long as you can deliver high-quality files over restricted bandwidth and address the need for many different file types, screen sizes and platforms while minimizing your overheads.
iCR Repurposing can help you do all this effectively by allowing you to set up process templates, so master file A can be repurposed into outputs X, Y and Z with no human intervention.
Best picture-quality-to-bit-rate ratio on the market
The good news does not stop here. We have the best picture quality at an equivalent file size or better quality at lower files sizes, 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.
Add optional iCR Review and quality control (QC) into the mix and you can automate the QC process so each output file comes with a complete QC report, detailing hundreds of variables and flagging any potential problem areas.
Break into HD
High definition (HD) encoding is notoriously unreliable 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.
Other systems may result in problems such as dropped frames; iCR Repurposing not only ensures you get the highest-possible quality master, but also reliably provides high quality output to any required format.
Ingest to NLE repurposing integrated into your workflow
Automated repurposing 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.
For example, 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 equipment.
If your ingest produces an MPEG2 archive format and you are editing in Final Cut Pro, once you have completed the ingest you have to convert the MPEG2 into a QuickTime .mov file for use on Final Cut Pro—a time-consuming and inefficient process.
With iCR Repurposing, however, you can ingest directly to formats supported by Final Cut Pro and Avid, saving time and making your workflows effortlessly more efficient. Similarly, you can ingest Pinnacle files in a format fully acceptable to Omneon.
Improve your efficiency
Wouldn’t it be great to go right from ingest to output without having to touch your content? With iCR’s superior integration capabilities you can ingest from multiple sources, reformat and repurpose seamlessly for editing and distribution in any format over any channel.
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.
Maximize your output
When dealing with output to various channels and formats, you essentially need to be able to do more things in less time.
iCR Repurposing can allow you to split jobs over a render farm so you can vastly improve your throughput and produce more quality content, faster.
Benefits at a glance
| Benefit | iCR Repurposing |
|---|---|
| Create content for the web, video on demand, IPTV, HD-DVD, mobile phones and portable media players |  |
| Optimize quality-per-bit ratio | |
| Produce output for HD | |
| Ingest direct to NLE | |
| Improve efficiency through integration | |
| Split jobs over a render farm | |
| Future proof your repurposing systems | |
| Use Alchemist Ph.C-based standards conversion for global distribution | |
| Use templates for simplified automation | |