MainConcept MPEG Pro HD 4 Broadcast Suite combines all versions and features in a single plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro. It offers full support for the entire Sony XDCAM camcorder and deck portfolio as well as for the latest Panasonic P2 DVCPRO and AVC-Intra camcorder generation. It is the perfect solution for broadcast production environments that make use of high-end devices for professional content creation and editing, including 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 support:

• AVC-Intra Class 50/100
• XDCAM HD
• XDCAM EX
• XDCAM IMX
• DVCAM
• DVCPRO 25/50/HD

The MPEG Pro HD 4 Broadcast Suite offers numerous ready-to-use project, sequence as well as export presets, including MXF support and archiving to Professional Disc or similar media, in order to optimize your editing workflow. This all-in-one solution adds smart rendering for MPEG, DVCPRO as well as AVC-Intra to Premiere Pro, in order to save time while exporting your projects.

Additionally, MPEG Pro HD 4 Broadcast Suite turns MPEG-1/2 and H.264/AVC editing into a productive, high-quality workflow. It offers many HDV and HDTV project presets for high-definition video editing in its native format. Using the versatile plug-in, you have the opportunity to import as well as export videos in these formats, including presets for:

• DVD
• HDV
• HDTV
• Cable Labs
• Blu-ray Disc
• AVCHD
• Sony PSP
• Apple iPod
• And many more!

Moreover, it offers AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as Dolby® Digital 5.1 import and export. It includes ultra-fast smart rendering to speed up export time, and many other powerful features, such as fast AVCHD editing support to optimize your workflow. Moreover, MPEG Pro HD 4 offers advanced export settings that give the user full flexibility to specify the target formats details and to create and save their own custom presets.

• Project and export presets for Sony XDCAM HD, XDCAM IMX, XDCAM EX and DVCAM high-definition camcorders and deck, including 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 support.
• MXF format support for exporting video footage to XDCAM HD discs or MXF-based non-linear editing systems.
• Offers professional media content conversion of high resolution video/audio formats for the entire Sony XDCAM portfolio allowing the perfect workflow in a broadcast environment.
• Import, edit natively and export AVC-INTRA Class 50 and Class 100, including 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 support.
• Support for Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra and DVCPRO HD - Specialized Operational Pattern "Atom" SMPTE 390M.
• AVC-Intra and DVCPRO MXF support.
• Supported AVC-Intra resolutions are 960x720, 1280x720, 1440x1080 and 1920x1080.
• The following video formats are supported for AVC-Intra:
  • 1080 line interlaced video at 59.94 Hz field frequency (1080/59.94i) and 50 Hz field frequency (1080/50i).
  • 1080 line progressive video at 29.97 Hz frame frequency (1080/29.97p), 25 Hz frame frequency (1080/25p), and 23.98 Hz frame frequency (1080/23.98p).
  • 720 line progressive video at 59.94 Hz frame frequency (720/59.94p), 50 Hz frame frequency (720/50p), 29.97 Hz frame frequency (1080/29.97p), 25 Hz frame frequency (720/25p), and 23.98 Hz frame frequency (720/23.98p).
• Import, edit natively and export DV and DVCPRO 25/50/HD with special support for Panasonic P2 format including multichannel audio.
• Import and export formats are AVI, DIF and MXF (SMPTE 383M - clip wrapped).
• Supported DVCPRO HD (DV 100) formats:
  • 1280x720 - 50p, 60p, 24p, 24pn, 25p, 25pn, 30p, 30pn
  • 1920x1080 - 50i, 59.94i, 24p, 24pa, 25p, 30p
• Supported DVCPRO 25/50 and DV formats:
  • 720x576 - 50i, 25p
  • 720x480 - 59.94i, 24p, 24pa, 30p
• Import of DV/DVCPRO AVIs with multiple separate mono PCM streams.
• MXF export can generate a P2 compliant folder structure (virtual P2 device) in which the A/V and meta-data get stored or add clips to an existing P2 folder.
• Support for import of DV AVI multiple mono streams.
• MPEG, DVCPRO and AVC-Intra smart rendering in both Premiere Pro CS3 and CS4.
• Native MPEG-1/2 and H.264/AVC editing.
• Many ready-to-use project presets for many different occasions.
• Many ready-to-use export and sequence presets, such as Blu-ray, Sony PSP, Apple iPod, AVCHD, DVD, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, XDCAM IMX, DVCAM, Panasonic P2 DVCPRO and AVC-Intra etc.
• AAC, PCM, MPEG and Dolby Digital audio support.
• Fast AVCHD editing support to optimize your workflow.
• Native support for the HDV camcorders from Sony, JVC or Canon.
• Real-time capture from DV to MPEG.
• Utility to transfer HDV to tape.
• IEEE 1394 DV timeline output during editing and scrubbing.
• More editable encoding options and a wider range of parameter values.
• Improved timeline and source video playback performance with up to 20% less CPU load.
• Full screen playback on a secondary monitor in a dual view setup.
• Optional 4 GB split of P2 or XDCAM EX exports to an NTFS volume for the purpose of copying it to a FAT 32 formatted media later on.

High-Resolution Manuals:
In order to keep the file size reasonable, the MPEG Pro™ HD 4 Plug-In includes a user guide with low-resolution graphics. However, we are making high-resolution manuals available for free downloading separately below, in zipped Adobe® Acrobat® format.

English (high-resolution) manual for MPEG Pro HD 4
(5.14 MB)

• MainConcept MPEG Pro HD 4 is available for Microsoft Windows. It is designed to work on any PC which meets Adobe Premiere Pro CS 3 and CS4 minimum system requirements.
• Requires Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 or CS4 (does not work with any version below CS3)
• For HDV editing, the recommended minimum requirements are an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 3.06 GHz or faster with Hyper Threading Technology, and 1 GB of RAM.
• For HD and AVCHD editing, the recommended minimum requirements are an Intel® DualCore processor 2.4 GHz or faster, and 2 GB of RAM.
• For AVC-Intra Class 50 and 100 editing, a Core2Quad 2.4 GHz CPU is recommended as minimum system requirement.
• In addition to these requirements, video editing requires that your system is operating smoothly.

Attention:

• Before you start to install the new version of the MPEG Pro HD 4 Plug-In, please uninstall the current one. Additionally, make sure that no other MainConcept or Adobe Creative Suite program is running during uninstalling or installing new MainConcept software.