MainConcept MPEG Pro HD 3 was designed to be the renowned full-featured MPEG and H.264/AVC Plug-In editing solution for Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and CS3. The latest version now offers also support for XDCAM HD 4:2:0 as well as 4:2:2 in 1920x1080 and 1280x720. Additionally, it includes significant speed improvements for H.264/AVC decoding and MPEG-2 encoding, in order to optimize your editing workflow.

The Plug-In turns MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 editing into a productive, high-quality workflow. It offers many HDV and HDTV project presets for high-definition video editing in its native format.

MPEG Pro HD 3 supports the H.264 standard, i.e. you have the opportunity to import as well as export videos in the H.264 format, including presets for AVCHD, Sony PSP and Apple iPod. Moreover, it offers AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as Dolby Digital 5.1 import and export.

It also includes realtime capture to MPEG (depending on your system's capabilities), smart rendering to save time, and many other powerful features.

Beside Sony XDCAM HD support, the new version of MPEG Pro HD 3 now offers full support for the latest Sony XDCAM EX camcorder generation allowing import, editing, and export of such streams � including smart rendering � with Adobe Premiere Pro. The Plug-In includes the ability to capture from several JVC, Canon and Sony HD camcorders. In addition, the also available Plug-Ins for DVCPRO provide support for Panasonic camcorders too.

Here are some key features of "MainConcept MPEG Pro HD":

· Real-time capture to MPEG:
Capture from various analog and digital sources. Eliminate rendering time by capturing directly to the format you'll be editing.

· MPEG import:
Import and edit existing MPEG files.

· Native MPEG editing with smart rendering:
Edit MPEG material without unnecessary rendering - only changed frames are rendered.

· IEEE 1394:
IEEE 1394 output during editing and scrubbing.

· Sony XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX support:
MXF file support for Sony XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX
XDCAM EX project presets and export profiles
XDCAM HD 4:2:2 1920x1080 and 1280x720 support
XDCAM HD 4:2:0 1920x1080 and 1280x720 support
Import and editing of XDCAM IMX files. The resulting project can only be exported to XDCAM IMX Elementary Streams

· H.264 support:
Easily import and export H.264 video
Further speed improvements and optimizations in the H.264/AVC Decoder

· AVC-HD support:
Easily import and export AVC-HD video.
Improved AVCHD playback and scrubbing.
AVCHD project presets.
Updated AVCHD export profiles.

· DV support:
Edit MPEG and DV material with equal ease.
Full 16:9 support for timeline playback to external DV device.

· AAC and Dolby Digital support:
Import and export AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), as well as Dolby Digital audio stereo and 5.1 in high-quality, low bit-rate.

· Ultra-fast performance:
Edit with up to real-time performance at DVD resolution.
MPEG-2 Encoder speed improvement of up to 30% on DualCore systems (up to 10% on a QuadCore)

· Sony PSP and Apple iPod presets:
Export projects by using default profiles for Sony PlayStation Portable and Apple iPod.

· Smart requantizing:
Convert material from one MPEG format to another (for example from MICROMV to DVD-compliant MPEG-2) without re-encoding - save time and prevent quality loss.

· Native support for the latest HDV camcorders:
Import, capture, edit and export video footage in 720p or 1080i from your Sony, Canon or JVC HD camcorder. Of course, you can also play the videos back to the camera again.
Supports Intel Core 2 Duo technology
Optimized import modules to overcome Adobe Premiere Pro's resource problem, in order to allow a faster handling of a huge amount of imported clips, especially HD.
Improved player module with asynchronous rendering and frame prefetch to eliminate delays during transition between clips on timeline.
Added multi-monitor support for Player module.

Requirements:

· Adobe Premiere Pro
· Intel Pentium 4 processor 3.06 GHz or faster
· 15 MB free disk space for software installation

Limitations:

· 5 minutes video processing
· watermark on the output

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fix for XDCAM HD import incompatibility problem with some third party files
· Fixed stability issues during smart rendering
· H.264/AVC Decoder do not use all CPUs during decoding with 8 CPU on 8 core system
· Lost frames during playback of H.264/AVC streams
· MH.264/AVC Encoder now supports Level 1b
· Failed import of large XDCAM EX files has been fixed