MainConcept MPEG Pro HD 4 XDCAM offers full support for the entire Sony XDCAM camcorder and deck lineup. It is the perfect solution to offer interoperability editing and exporting within the professional Sony XDCAM family, including 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 support:

• XDCAM HD
• XDCAM EX
• XDCAM IMX
• DVCAM

The MPEG Pro HD 4 XDCAM Plug-In offers numerous ready-to-use project, sequence as well as export presets for the various XDCAM devices that are required in almost any professional production environments, including MXF support and archiving to Professional Disc, in order to optimize your editing workflow.

Additionally, MPEG Pro HD 4 XDCAM 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. Moreover, MPEG Pro HD 4 offers advanced export settings that give the user full flexibility to specify the target formats details and even create and save their own custom presets.

• Project, sequence 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.
• MPEG 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 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.
• Import of Convergent NanoFlash MXF files.
• 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.
• Full screen playback on a secondary monitor in a dual view setup.
• Optional 4 GB split of 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.