Video Capture
If you work with video, sooner or later you are going to need to convert it from one format to another. There has been an explosive growth of digital video in the consumer market and a corresponding growth in the ways that people receive video information: webcasts, podcasts, IP video, YouTube, and DVD videos are just some of the vehicles used.
Many companies are also using more than one of these mediums to get their messages out. Multiple mediums have also created a whole slew of video formats for the distribution of video through all kinds of digital mediums. The expanding breadth of devices for viewing content is accompanied by an ever increasing number of encoding formats. Each of these has unique requirements for optimally reaching each kind of device, and no one kind of format optimally serves them all. AVW-TELAV has addressed these changing trends by developing a computer-based mobile video encoder.
Solution details:
- At the heart of the new system is a video capture product from a company called Digital Rapids. This leading designer of professional encoding and streaming products is a Canadian company based in Markham, Ontario.
- Although not known by the general public, their products are well known by every major network. Digital Rapids’ products were recently used in Beijing to encode over 2,200 hours of video live on the Internet for NBCOlympics.com.
- AVW-TELAV chose Digital Rapids because they have gone to great lengths to optimize both performance and quality.
Best of all:
- The encoder is flexible enough to be able to capture video in a wide range of formats. The encoder can produce output in Windows Media, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, QuickTime, AVC/H264, AVI and more, and in any sampling rate that your application requires.
- Multiple formats can be produced simultaneously! At the end of the event the video can be delivered, burnt onto a data DVD or on a removable hard disk, which can then be easily transferred to any computer or digital editing system.
- The conversion does not have to be done after the event, which saves time and money.
