Sorenson Squeeze 7

Sorenson Media is excited to announce the release of Squeeze 7.

This new version has many of the new features your customers have been asking for including:

GPU Acceleration
Utilize NVIDIA CUDA technology in your GPUs to accelerate H.264 encoding.  Encode up to 3 times faster than using the CPU alone.

Adaptive Bitrate Encoding
Squeeze 7 handles all aspects of Apple http adaptive bitrate encoding from encoding multiple renditions to segmenting and uploading.

NLE Plugins
Now natively encode your video directly from the timeline of the most popular NLEs including Avid, Final Cut Pro and Premiere (NEW).

Broadcast Formats
Create MPEG Transport Streams for broadcast with H.264 and Dolby AC3.  Also, create digital signage-specific outputs.

Web Formats
Encode video for the web as HTML5, QuickTime, Flash, Windows Media and Silverlight.  Everything you need, now in Squeeze.

Dolby Certified Encoders
Produce Dolby Certified AC3 audio - each copy of Squeeze 7 includes the Dolby Consumer encoder.

Formats

Video Input Formats

3GP, Apple ProRes (Mac only), Apple Intermediate Codec (Mac only), ASF (Windows only), AVCHD, AVC–Intra, AVI, DV,  DVCPRO, Flash Video (On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark), HDV, Motion JPEG, MPEG–1, MPEG–2, MPEG–4 Part 2, MPEG–4 AVC (H.264), MPEG Program Streams, MPEG Transport Streams, MXF (XDCAM), QuickTime, VOB, WMV

Audio Input Formats

AAC, AC–3, AIFF, AU, Dolby Digital, M4A MP3 (MPEG–1 Layer 3), MPEG Layer 1, MPEG Layer 2, PCM, WMA, WAV

Video Output Formats

3GP, Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), AVI Blu–Ray (H.264, MPEG–2, VC–1), DV, DVB DVD (NTSC, PAL), Flash Video (On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark), HDV, Matroska, Motion JPEG, MPEG–1, MPEG–2, MPEG–4 Part 2 MPEG–4 AVC (H.264), MPEG Elementary Streams, MPEG Program Streams MPEG Transport Streams, QuickTime QuickTime Exporter Components, WebM  WMV

Audio Output Formats

AAC, AC–3, AIFF, Dolby Digital, M4A, MP3 (MPEG Layer 3), MPEG Layer 1, MPEG Layer 2, Ogg Vorbis, PCM, WAV, WMA

Encode & Transcode

• Video compression, easy as 1, 2, 3
  1. Import uncompressed video file
  2. Select intelligent presets
  3. Press “Squeeze It”
• (NEW) GPU accelerated H.264 encoding
• (NEW) Adaptive Bitrate encoding
• One, Two and Multi-Pass Variable Bitrate (VBR) compression
• High Definition (HD) encoding options
• Simultaneous multi-file encoding
• Metadata encoding/passthrough
• Batch processing at job, source, and output levels
• (NEW) Encode for broadcast
• (NEW) Dolby certified encoders
• Source pixel aspect ratio control
• Constrain output file size

Quality Filters

Black Restore, blur, brightness, contrast, crop, deinterlace, fade video, gamma, hue, saturation and lightness, inverse telecine, image orientation (NEW), RGB, Sharpen, Telecine 2:3 pulldown, Timecode, tint, video noise reduction, watermark, white balance, white restore, audio duration, audio mixer, audio pitch, audio volume, audio fade.

Workflow

• Seamless integration with AVID, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere Applications
• Multiple Watch Folders with multiple output options
• Direct integration with Sorenson 360
• Integrated preset exchange

Delivery & Notifications

• Complimentary 1 Year Sorenson 360 Review & Approval account
• Send unlimited notifications via email and up to 30 SMS text message alerts per month
• Publish to YouTube, AWS, Akamai, Limelight and more
• FTP publishing

Editing

• Trim in and out points
• Video cropping
• Duplicate Source
• DV Capture
• Standard NLE shortcut keys
• BIAS SoundSoap SM Audio Noise Reduction Plugin

System Requirements

• Windows
• Microsoft® Windows® XP, Vista, or 7
• Pentium® IV-based or greater
• 1 GB RAM or greater
• 200 MB available hard disk space
• 120MB available hard drive space
• QuickTime 7.2 or later
• DirectX 9.0b or later (Windows only)

• Macintosh
• Mac OS X 10.5 or greater
• Intel-based processor
• 1 GB RAM or greater
• 200 MB available hard drive space