Document Outline

• ProCoder 3 Installation and User Guide
  • Cautions
  • Manual Explanation
  • DANGER
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
    • 1 Before Installing ProCoder
      • Before Using ProCoder
        • Precautions
      • Support
        • Customer Support
        • Web-site
        • Online User Registration
    • 2 Key Features
      • Supports the loading/exporting of Dolby Digital audio (.ac3)
      • Audio channel mixer
      • High-speed HDV encoder (Speed Encoder)
      • Supports Flash encoding
      • Supports H.264 encoding
      • Convenient features for loading DVD files
      • Improved progressive video quality
      • Improved scaling quality
      • Marker function
      • Supports Drop/Non-Drop timecodes
      • Supports conversion of files with VBI data
      • Supports retention of the original timecode
    • 3 Navigating this Manual
      • Minimum System Requirements
  • Chapter 2 Installation
    • 1 Installing ProCoder
    • 2 Uninstalling ProCoder
  • Chapter 3 ProCoder 3 Wizard
    • 1 Using ProCoder 3 Wizard
      • Convert a Source
        • Checking the Source
        • Changing Source Parameters
        • Setting In/Out points
        • Advanced Settings
      • Choose Conversion Settings
        • Selecting a Target format
        • Selecting Generic Targets
      • Choosing Output Location
      • Confiming Your Settings
        • Advanced Output Settings
      • Converting Files
      • Conversion Finished
      • Create a Watch Folder
        • Monitoring Watch Folders
        • Files to convert
        • Watch Folder
      • Other Watch Folder Options
  • Chapter 4 Using ProCoder
    • 1 QuickStart
      • Assigning a Target format
      • Converting the file
    • 2 Source Tab
      • Source Properties
        • Source List
        • Parameters
        • Description
      • Advanced window
        • Setup
      • Video Filter tab
        • Video filters
        • Adding a Filter
        • Removing a Filter
        • Saving and Loading filters
        • Preview Windows
      • Audio Filter tab
        • Audio Filters
        • Adding a Filter
        • Removing a Filter
        • Saving and Loading filters
        • Settings
        • Preview
    • 3 Target Tab
      • Assigning Targets
      • Modifying Targets
      • Customizing Advanced Settings
      • Advanced window
        • Setup tab
      • Video Filter tab
        • Video filters
        • Adding a Filter
        • Removing a Filter
        • Saving and Loading filters
        • Preview Windows
      • Audio Filter Tab
        • Audio Filters
        • Adding a Filter
        • Removing a Filter
        • Loading and Saving filters
        • Settings
        • Preview
    • 4 Convert Tab
      • Playing converted files
    • 5 Presets and Profiles
      • Loading and Saving Custom Settings
      • Loading and Saving Target profiles
    • 6 Queue Manager
      • To queue a job:
      • Cancelling and managing jobs
      • Managing Jobs
        • Viewing Jobs
        • Managing Jobs
      • Clearing the Queue
    • 7 Watch Folders
      • Creating Permanent Watch Folders
      • Removing Permanent Watch Folders
      • Creating Temporary Watch Folders
    • 8 Transcoding Settings
      • Processing Options tab
        • Frame Rate Conversion
        • Chapter Points
        • Time Code
        • Scaling and Letterboxing
      • Conversion Options tab
        • Preview Options
        • Preview Devices
        • Source Loading Options
        • System
      • Default Target Folder Tab
    • 9 Application Settings
      • Settings
      • Confirmation
    • 10 Advanced Features
      • Droplets
        • To create a droplet,
      • Command-line Automation
        • ProCoder Application Options
        • ProCoder Droplet Options
      • Premiere Plug-in
      • EDIUS Plug-in
  • Chapter 5 Helpful Hints
    • 1 Maximizing ProCoder performance
      • Close other tasks
      • Optimize drive speed
      • Disable automatic scanning applications
      • Use separate source and target drives
      • Disable preview
    • 2 Using Filters
      • When to apply filters
        • Source filters
        • Target filters
      • Why filters are necessary
        • Cropping unwanted data
        • Improve or correct sources
        • Enhance encoding of specific targets
        • Expand/shrink 601 color range
    • 3 Improving your Video
      • Video is blocky or appears to break up
        • Cause: DVD media reading problem
        • Cause: Use of seek or trick-play in the player
        • Cause: Video bitrate too low or not enough keyframes
        • Cause: Video bitrate too high
      • Video appears fuzzy or blurry
        • Cause: DV playback not set to full quality
        • Cause: Video resolution too low
        • Cause: Video bitrate too low
      • Video has halos or blocks near objects
        • Cause: Video bitrate too low
      • Video appears to jitter
        • Cause: Single-field detail in interlaced output
        • Cause: Improper source interlacing field order
        • Cause: Improper target interlacing field order
      • Video movement appears jumpy
        • Cause: Video frame rate too low
        • Cause: Streaming connection speed too slow
        • Cause: Playback machine too slow
      • Audio and video are out of sync
        • Cause: Use of seek or trick-play in the player
        • Cause: Video and audio playing from different devices
        • Cause: Set-top DVD audio decoder problems
        • Cause: DVD authoring error
      • Video shows strange patterns or blocks
        • Cause: Corrupt video file
      • Video appears stretched or squashed
        • Cause: Widescreen MPEG-2 output
        • Cause: Player does not compensate for pixel and frame aspect ratio
        • Cause: Incorrect source aspect ratio setting
      • Cannot load encoded MPEG files into DVDauthoring software
        • Cause: File naming problem
        • Cause: Incorrect MPEG-2 file type
        • Cause: Software does not accept MPEG files
  • Chapter 6 ProCoder Reference
    • 1 Source Options
      • Common Source Options
      • AC3 Audio Source
      • AVI Source
      • DV Source
      • DVD (VIDEO TS.IFO) Source
      • Flash Source
      • H.264 Source
      • HDV(m2t) Source
      • MP3 Audio Source
      • MPEG Source
      • PCM (WAVE) Audio Source
      • QuickTime Source
      • RawDV Source
      • Still Image Source
      • Windows Media Source
    • 2 Target Options
      • Common Target Options
      • AC3 Audio Target
      • AVI Target
      • DV Target
      • Flash Target
      • H.264 Target
      • HDV Target
      • MP3 Audio Target
      • MPEG Target
      • PCM Audio Target
      • Poster Frame (Still Image) Target
      • Preview DVD Target
      • QuickTime Export Target
      • QuickTime Target
      • Raw DV Target
      • RealMedia Target
      • Windows Media Target
    • 3 Video Filters
      • 601 Correction - Expand Color Space Filter
      • 601 Correction - Shrink Color Space Filter
      • 601 to 709 Color Correction Filter
      • 709 to 601 Color Correction Filter
      • Adaptive De-Interlace
      • Bitmap Keying Filter
      • Black/White Correction Filter
      • Blur Filter
      • Broadcast Color Safe Filter
      • Circular Blur Filter
      • Color Correction Filter
      • Fade In/Out Filter
      • Gamma Correction Filter
      • Gaussian Blur Filter
      • Median Filter
      • Pulldown Filter
      • Relative Crop Filter
      • Rotate Filter
      • Sharpen Filter
      • Temporal Noise Reducer
      • Video Inverse Telecine Filter
    • 4 Audio Filters
      • Channel Mixer Filter
      • Fade In/Out Filter
      • Lowpass Filter
      • Normalize Filter
      • Volume Filter
    • 5 ProCoder Preset Categories
  • Chapter 7 Glossary
    • Authoring
    • AVI
    • Bitrate
    • Bitrate, Constant
    • Bitrate, 2-pass Variable
    • Codec
    • Data Rate
    • DivX
    • DV
    • DVD
    • Frame Rate
    • Frame Size
    • MPEG
    • MPEG-1 Elementary Streams
    • MPEG-1 System Streams
    • MPEG-2 Elementary Streams
    • MPEG-2 Program Streams
    • MPEG-2 Transport Streams
    • MPEG-4 Streams
    • Noise
    • NTSC
    • Overscan Area
    • PAL
    • Progressive Download
    • QuickTime
    • RealMedia
    • Resolution
    • Source video
    • Streaming
    • Streaming Server
    • Super VideoCD
    • Synchronization
    • Target video
    • VideoCD
    • VOB
    • Watch folder
    • Windows Media
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