By Elina Shatkin, April 13, 2005
Canopus Corporation will unveil ProCoder Station Render Farm next week at NAB 2005 in Las Vegas (booth SL325). ProCoder Station Render Farm is a network-based encoding solution that combines speed and flexibility into a powerful, streamlined encoding solution for production and broadcast facilities that have a high volume of transcoding jobs that need to be performed quickly. Using the company's powerful ProCoder video encoding software, the ProCoder Station Render Farm provides an efficient solution for the distribution of multiple transcoding jobs to multiple ProCoder Station Render Farm machines through a single unified management interface.
ProCoder Station Render Farm is the perfect solution for facilities that find their encoding system overloaded with a large number of queued tasks and need a more efficient solution to handle the workload
. Through a shared storage device, ProCoder Station Render Farm processes multiple jobs concurrently on separate Render Farm machines, resulting in more jobs being processed. The system also provides for efficient allocation of jobs to the Render Farm machines. Each machine is monitored to assign incoming job tasks to the least-busy machine, reducing the possibility of one or two machines being overworked while other machines are idle.
ProCoder Station Render Farm fully supports HD resolutions (720p and 1080i) and can transcode between HD and SD resolutions and frame rates seamlessly. ProCoder Station Render Farm can also
transcode between HD-compatible formats, including MPEG, DivX, Windows Media High Definition Video (WMV HD) and QuickTime. For added flexibility, ProCoder Station supports MPEG transport streams, including HDV and broadcast-compatible HD streams.
ProCoder Station Render Farm will be available as an option for Canopus's ProCoder Station in May 2005 through Canopus authorized system integrators and VARs.
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