CarbonCoder 3.20.0.38542

Harmonic ProMedia Carbon v.3.24.0.48292

Harmonic ProMedia Carbon (Carbon Coder)是广受赞誉的 Canopus ProCoder 2  的继承者，最优秀的专业级通用媒体转码程序，其“核心”是顶级的 MPEG2 编码器，支持大多数的常用格式，ProMedia Carbon 还一直在不断更新以支持新的格式。

主要特点

- 直观的界面（操作界面类同于软件产品 ProCoder - Carbon 公司基于 Canopus 品牌出售的快速转码引擎）不仅可以很容易地在指定格式中编码文件，也可以在下面格式间相互转换和操作：

- 视频流：

- PAL / NTSC 转换；

- SD / HD 转换；

- 隔行扫描转换到逐行扫描流（自适应反交错），反之亦然；

- 改变帧率和宽高比，裁剪，调整大小;

- 插入标志；

- 色彩校正以及从一个颜色空间转换到另一个。

- 音频流:

- 规格化；

- 动态范围压缩；

- 音频滤波器。

- 能够完全自动编码位于特定文件夹（监视文件夹）的文件并可进行批量编码（作业队列管理器）。

- 创建 Carbon Coder 运行集群，可大大提高了生产率。

支持格式

视频编码: MPEG- 1 ，MPEG- 2 ，MPEG- 4 ，H.263，H.264，VC- 1  ，Flash，DV25，DV50，DVCPro，DPS，DivX，JPEG 2000 ，DNxHD，AVCIntra，Image  Sequences，Windows Media，RealVideo

音频编码: PCM，MPEG- 1 Layer II，MP3，AAC，AMR-NB，WM Audio，RealAudio，Dolby Digital，Dolby E，Dolby Digital Plus

Media Containers: HDV，MXF (including D-10/IMX)，MPEG- 2 PS，MPEG- 2  TS，GXF，LXF，QuickTime，WMV，ASF，AVI，VOB，3GPP，3G2，WMA，WAV，Broadcast  WAV，Smooth Streaming (H.264，VC- 1 )，HTTP Live Streaming

支持系统: Leitch VR，Nexio，Grass Valley Profile，K2，Omneon Spectrum，Quantel  sQ，Avid Editing Systems，Apple Final Cut Pro，Adobe Premiere Pro，Grass  Valley Edius

ProMedia Carbon  是基于文件的转码软件，最大限度的适用于采集，编辑，播出，网络和移动等的格式间的相互转码。系统扩展到完全切合初始需求并成长为支持 Carbon  服务器或工作流系统（WFS）控制下的自动多节点转码集群。ProMedia Carbon  还包括一个开放的API，它允许创建自定义工作流或第三方应用程序。

Rhozet is a spinoff from Canopus Corp. that was acquired by Harmonic Corp. in 2007. The Rhozet team, in addition to Carbon Coder, has designed and developed the batch encoding tool ProCoder, which has been licensed to Canopus/Grass Valley.

The Carbon Coder family has two products. Stand-alone encoder Carbon Coder costs $4,995 per computer (not CPU or CPU-core), and it can be run through its native interface, watch folders, or its XML-based API. Carbon Server costs $14,995 per server, with multiple Carbon Coder nodes configurable as a server farm. You can operate Carbon Server through its administrative web interface, locally or remotely, or via the same XML-based API that drives Carbon Coder.

I first reviewed Carbon Coder in April 2007 and just had a chance to look at the 3.0 release. In this review, I’ll provide an overview of Carbon Coder’s operation, walk through the enhancements, and describe output quality and performance.