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 Professional turns MPEG-1/2 and H.264/AVC editing into a productive, high-quality workflow. MPEG-1/2 Smart Rendering* and CUDA accelerated H.264/AVC encoding dramatically speed up your exports. The Plug-In offers numerous ready-to-use project, sequence and export presets for various MPEG/H.264 industry standard formats and devices ranging from consumers to high-end professional usage like HDV, AVCHD and AVCCAM for editing in their native format. Using the versatile plug-in, you have the opportunity to import and export videos in these formats, including presets for:

• VCD
• SVCD
• DVD
• CUDA H.264/AVC
• HDV
• HDTV
• Cable Labs
• Blu-ray Disc
• AVCHD
• Sony PSP
• Apple iPod
• ...and many more!

* H.264/AVC Smart Rendering support is scheduled for an upcoming update of Codec Suite 5

MainConcept Codec Suite 5 Professional comes with CUDA H.264/AVC encoding that offers export of your projects by making use of Nvidia’s GPU hardware acceleration architecture. With a high-end Nvidia graphics card full HD H.264/AVC exports faster than realtime are possible. Additionally the ultra-fast Smart Rendering for MPEG-1/2 helps to boost up the export performance dramatically with speeds of up to five times realtime. Moreover, it offers advanced export settings that give the user full flexibility to specify the target formats details in a wide range and to create and save your own custom presets.

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 can only be used with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 (not included).

• Native MPEG-1/2 and H.264/AVC editing.
• CUDA H.264/AVC Encoding support for GPU based accelerated H.264/AVC encoding for selected presets (performance gain depends on the timeline complexity).*
• MPEG-1/2 smart rendering**
• Many ready-to-use sequence and export presets, such as Blu-ray, AVCHD, DVD, HDV, Sony PSP, Apple iPod, etc.
• AAC, PCM, and MPEG Audio support.
• Dolby Digital Audio import. Optional Dolby Digital Professional audio export available
• Fast AVCHD editing support to optimize your workflow.
• More editable encoding options and a wider range of parameter values.
• Full screen playback on a secondary monitor in a dual view setup.

* 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.
** H.264/AVC Smart Rendering support is scheduled for an upcoming update of Codec Suite 5

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.

Upgrade from MPEG Pro™ HD 4.x to Codec Suite 5 – 50% Special Discount on the First Order:

For a limited time only, MainConcept is offering MPEG Pro™ HD 4 customers a 50% discount on the first order for Codec Suite 5 Plug-Ins.

For details on how to get your 50% discount, e-mail your name, a copy of your invoice and the MPEG Pro™ 4.x serial number to sales(at)mainconcept.de. Take advantage of this limited time offer today!