Carbon Server (software only)
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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 crossvendor interoperability. Carbon Server allows for automated processing of highvolume transcoding tasks, as well as preemptive 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 XMLbased API that is included with the product. The same API controls both Carbon Coder and Carbon Server.
(includes 1 same machine Carbon Coder license)
Scalable Operation
Carbon
Server is designed to scale from a single user to an entire enterprise.
Users can start with a single Carbon Coder node running under the
control of Carbon Server, and then add more nodes as the transcoding
load increases. The server software automatically recognizes new Carbon
Coder nodes and adds them to the transcoding operation. If a node
fails, transcoding is automatically routed to other nodes.
Web-Based Interaction
All
control of the Carbon Server application is through an administrative
Web interface that can be securely accessed from any machine on the
network. This interface allows for the configuration of network watch
folders, transcoding profiles, FTP transfers, etc. The “farm” can be
fully automated, with specified priorities for jobs coming from certain
network locations. Users can also submit jobs on an as-needed basis.
FTP Transfer Control
The
“farm” managed by the Carbon Server application can access shared
storage on the network or remote storage via FTP. As an example, Carbon
Server can be set to watch an FTP location on a catch server, then
automatically transcode arriving material into an editing format. The
transcoded video can then be automatically transferred to an editing
station.
XML-based Interface
Carbon
Server can be controlled directly via an XML-based SDK provided with
the software. Every aspect of the transcoding process can be controlled
by the SDK, including source/target destinations, transcoding
parameters, filtering, compositing, ad insertion, titling,
notifications, etc. The same SDK controls both Carbon Coder and Carbon
Server, so your work will scale from a single machine to an entire farm.
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
Supported FormatVideo 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
Audio Codecs
PCM, MP3, DTS
AAC, AMC, AMR-NB
WM Audio, RealAudio
Media Containers
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
Systems
Grass Valley EDIUS
Leitch VR, Nexio
Grass Valley Profile, K2
Omneon Spectrum
Quantel sQ
Avid Editing Systems
Apple Final Cut Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro
