MainConcept MPEG Pro HD 4 DVCPRO Plug-in is a full-featured DVCPRO 25/50/100 native editing solution for Adobe Premiere Pro. It is fully compliant with the following standards:

• DV (IEC-61834)
• DVCPRO 25 (SMPTE 314M)
• DVCPRO 50 (SMPTE 314M)
• DVCPRO HD (SMPTE 370M)

The MPEG Pro HD 4 DVCPRO Plug-In offers AVI, DIF and MXF (SMPTE 383M - clip wrapped) as import and export formats.

The MPEG Pro HD 4 DVCPRO Plug-In includes numerous ready-to-use project, sequence as well as export presets for the various DVCPRO devices, and is the perfect companion for professional broadcast environments.

Additionally, MPEG Pro HD 4 DVCPRO 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:

• 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. 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.

• Import, edit natively and export DV and DVCPRO 25/50/HD with special support for Panasonic P2 format.
• 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 AVI files with multiple separate mono PCM streams.
• Support for Panasonic P2 DVCPRO - Specialized Operational Pattern "Atom" SMPTE390M.
• MXF export can generate a P2 style 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.
• DVCPRO and MPEG smart rendering in both Premiere Pro CS3 and CS4.
• Native MPEG-1/2 and H.264/AVC editing.
• Many ready-to-use project and sequence presets for many different occasions.
• Many ready-to-use export presets in which the A/V and meta data get stored or add clips to an existing P2 folder, such as Blu-ray, Sony PSP, Apple iPod, AVCHD, DVD etc.
• AAC, PCM, MPEG Audio and Dolby Digital support.
• Fast AVCHD editing support to optimize your workflow.
• Native support for HDV camcorders from Sony, JVC or Canon.
• HDV capture with automated scene detection and split
• 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 Panasonic P2 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.