MainConcept Reference

MainConcept Reference is a powerful yet easy to use application that enables video professionals to transcode video & audio streams into various delivery formats required for Apple iPod®, Sony PSP, Blu-ray Disc, DVD, AVCHD, HDV, XDCAM, Adobe Flash, and others.

MainConcept Reference contains “pre-sets” for many popular formats to take the guess-work out of picking the proper output format, and can even capture and encode video live from various sources.

MainConcept’s Reference application is unique in that it creates an ecosystem for MainConcept codec plug-ins. The Reference application is provided as a free download and contains all the available MainConcept codec plug-ins, fully functional, in demo mode (demo rendered output video contains a watermark).

Currrently supported codecs include:
- MPEG-2 (incl. MPEG-1)
- H.264/AVC (Professional Version)
- H.264/AVC (Broadcast Version)
- MPEG-4 Part 2
- VC-1 Pro
- DVCPRO HD
- JPEG2000
- Dolby Digital Professional
- Dolby Digital Plus Pro

Main Features :

- Capturing from many different devices in their native format and various other codecs.*
- Subtitle rendering support for *.srt and *.sub files.
- New easy-to-use preset structure for quick access to the most important presets.
- Many powerful video and audio filters for different production environments and occasions.
- Improved user Interface for better handling and managing of transcoding jobs and projects.
- Direct access to import modules when opening streams for transcoding.
- Numerous ready-to-use export presets, including many new and improved ones.
- Configurable preset shortcuts for quick access to often used transcoding profiles.
- Pluggable input and output formats.
- Up-/down scaling of any input size to output dimensions.
- Framerate/sample rate conversion.