MainConcept Codec Suite 5, the successor to the popular MPEG Pro HD plug-in from MainConcept, is a set of full-featured, native 64-bit editing and export Plug-Ins for Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5.

Codec Suite 5 offers full support for the Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra and DVCPRO camcorder and deck generations as well as for the Ikegami GFCAM and Canon XF series. It offers full MPEG-1/2, DVCPRO and H.264/AVC encoding support, including performance acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA technology and Smart Rendering for MPEG-1/2, DVCPRO and AVC-Intra.* MainConcept Codec Suite 5 comes in two different versions and with an additional Dolby Digital Professional audio add-on as well to suit the needs of all users working with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 from the digital media enthusiast to professionals working with production level media formats:

• Codec Suite 5.1 Professional: For CS5 users who need advanced encoding options, H.264/AVC CUDA encoding and Smart Rendering.
• Codec Suite 5.1 Broadcast: For CS5 users who need advanced encoding options, H.264/AVC CUDA encoding, Smart Rendering and who also need to input from and output to various production level media formats.
• Dolby Digital Professional Add-On for Codec Suite 5: For CS5 users needing to encode sequences to the Dolby Digital Pro format in stereo or 5.1 channels and also optimize their audio streams with high end options.

MainConcept Codec Suite 5 supports an even wider range of formats than previous versions and provides numerous ready-to-use sequence and export presets for consumers as well as professional users. Advanced export options allow specifying the desired stream parameters in detail. Codec Suite 5 is also the perfect software for broadcast production environments that make use of high-end devices for professional content creation and editing.

Here are the key features of the MainConcept Codec Suite 5:

• MPEG-1/2, DVCPRO, AVC-Intra Smart Rendering to optimize the editing workflow with Premiere Pro.*
• Dolby Digital Professional 5.1 Add-On to support Blu-ray Disc, AVCHD and DVD creation
• MPEG-2, DVCPRO and AVC-Intra in generic MXF OP1-a and OP-Atom containers.**
• CUDA H.264/AVC Encoding support for NVIDIA GPU accelerated H.264/AVC encoding for selected presets (performance gain depends on the timeline complexity).
• Export up to 6 channels AES-3 audio in XDCAM, P2 and generic MXF formats

*General H.264/AVC Smart Rendering support is scheduled for an upcoming update.
**Generic MXF AVC-Intra currently only supports import of OP-1a.

Both the Professional and Broadcast versions of Codec Suite 5 turn MPEG-1/2 and H.264/AVC editing with Premiere Pro CS5 into a productive, high-quality workflow. They come with CUDA accelerated H.264/AVC encoding that offers  export of your projects by making use of Nvidia’s GPU hardware acceleration architecture. The ultra-fast smart rendering for MPEG-1/2, AVC-Intra and DVCPRO in MainConcept Codec Suite 5, helps to speed up export time dramatically. The new plug-in offers advanced export settings that give the user full flexibility to specify the target format’s details in a wide range, and both to create as well as save your own custom presets for future use. Besides two channel export, it is now also possible to export 4 and 6 AES-3 audio channels to the various MXF formats.

An additional Dolby Digital Professional Add-On for Codec Suite 5 allows exporting your projects with stereo or 5.1 multichannel Dolby Digital Professional audio.

The performance will depend on the PC's capabilities, and a free demo version is available to help users evaluate performance on their own systems. MainConcept Codec Suite 5.0 can only be used with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 (not included).

The following table shows a list of the most important supported codecs and distribution formats in each Plug-In version, so that you get a better overview about Codec Suite’s capabilities. We recommend having a look at the individual Plug-In pages as well to get a complete overview about the various formats:

Supported Codecs

Codec/Format	Codec Suite Professional	Codec Suite Broadcast
MPEG-1	yes	yes
MPEG-2	yes	yes
MPEG-2 422	no	yes
H.264/AVC	yes	yes
H.264/AVC High 422	no	yes
H.264/AVC High 10	no	yes
CUDA H.264/AVC*	yes	yes
AVC-Intra Class 50/100	no	yes
DVCPRO 25/50/100	no	yes
Sony XDCAM EX	no	yes
Sony XDCAM HD	no	yes
Sony XDCAM IMX	no	yes
Sony DVCAM	no	yes
Panasonic P2 DVCPRO	no	yes
Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra	no	yes
Ikegami GFCAM	no	yes
Convergent FlashXDR/NanoFlash	no	yes
Canon XF300	no	yes
Canon XF305	no	yes
MXF OP-1a/OP-Atom	no	yes
Blu-ray Disc	yes	yes
AVCHD	yes	yes
AVCCAM	yes	yes
DVD	yes	yes
Apple iPod	yes	yes
Sony PSP	yes	yes
HDV	yes	yes
NEW: VC-3 (import only)	no	yes
NEW: JPEG2000 DCI (import only)	no	yes
Dolby Digital Audio (additional add-on)	yes	yes

* H.264/AVC CUDA Encoding currently only supports a reduced set of profiles and features, e.g. encoding of Blu-ray compliant streams is not yet possible. The current version misses the following features:

• No interlace support
• No MBAFF support
• No Hadamard transformation
• No intra prediction 8x8
• Only ConstQ and ABR available (no CBR, no HRD support yet)
• No adaptive B-frames support
• No weighted prediction

They will be implemented in one of the following versions of Codec Suite.

High-Resolution Manuals:
The documentation of MainConceptCodec Suite is included in the demo version. However, it can also be downloaded separately in high-resolution for free, in zipped Adobe® Acrobat® format. Currently, only the English version is available.

English manual for MainConcept Codec Suite
(3.81 MB)

• MainConcept Codec Suite 5 is available for Microsoft Windows (64-bit). It is designed to work on any PC which meets Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 minimum system requirements.
• Requires Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 (does not work with any version below CS5)
• Additional requirements for CUDA H.264/AVC encoding: NVIDIA graphics card with CUDA support (Professional- Tesla, Quadro 4000-series and higher, FX, CX, NVS, QuadroPlex; Consumer - GeForce 8, 9, 100-series and higher GPUs - with a minimum of 256 MB of local graphics memory card or 512 MB for 1920x1080p encoding).
• CUDA compute capability 1.1 and higher is strongly recommended (excludes certain GeForce 8800 models - GTS, Ultra. Compute capability 1.0 works in general for encoding , but has known issues.
• 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 Codec Suite 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.

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Codec Suite 5.1 comes with the following new features, improvements and fixes:

• New MXF Importer which overcomes the multichannel audio track order mismatch between Adobe importers and Codec Suite 5.0 importers which led to project incompatibilities.
• Import of JPEG2000 in DCI compliant MXF files.
• Import of VC-3 streams in MXF container.
• Improved Player which allows playback of JPEG2000 or RED footage in fractional resolutions.
• Fixed DVCPRO 720p smart rendering which resulted in double speed output files.