Fixstars announced that it has released its Accelcoder X software encoder, which is compliant with Blu-ray Disc (BD) and Blu-ray 3D standards.
For more information visit: www.fixstars.com
Unedited press release follows:
Fixstars Releases Software Encoder for Blu-ray 3D “Accelcoder X”
The simplest way to create Blu-ray 3D disc
October 19, 2011 — TOKYO — Fixstars today announced their release of the Accelcoder X, the professional H.264 software encoder compliant to Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D standards. With the ExpessAuthoring feature, Accelcoder X dramatically changes the workflow to create a Blu-ray 3D disc at a much lower price than ever before.
Accelcoder X is a Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D standards compliant H.264 encoding software designed for professional use. It provides a fast and full-featured Blu-ray encoding environment at a low cost. As well as the Express Authoring function that enables seamless Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D disc creation, the newly built-in High quality encoding engine and Enhanced input format support accelerate the Blu-ray disc creation workflow dramatically.
The large-capacity of the Blu-ray disc is suitable as a packaged media, but it can also be used as a media for previews and promotions during the stages of high-quality 2D/3D video production. However, creating a Blu-ray disc requires 2 distinct procedures, which are encoding of the video, and authoring of the encoded data, requiring specialized knowledge, time, and equipment investment.
The ExpressAuthoring feature in Accelcoder X allows both the encoding and authoring processes to be performed seamlessly on a single machine. This means 2D or 3D output video can be written directly to a Blu-ray disc without the use of authoring software. ExpressAuthoring means you can create preview media and promotional videos, such as trailers or commercials, quickly and easily.
As input formats, commonly used formats in post-productions including QuickTime, Uncompressed AVI, and MPEG-4 AVC are supported. In addition, DPX and TIFF sequential files used in the process of filmmaking can be encoded as well.
For more information about Accelcoder X, visit: http://www.fixstars.com/codec/
Pricing & Availability
Accelcoder X is now available on the website at $1,999 USD for 3D edition and $1,299 USD for 2D edition. To celebrate the release, from today until November 29th, the full version of the Accelcoder X 3D Edition can be purchased at $999, approximately 50% off the list price.
Accelcoder X Store: https://www.fixstars.com/codec/store/
A trial version is available for 30days for free on the website: http://www.fixstars.com/codec/product/get-trial/
* The Express Authoring function encodes the input movie, and converts it to a data format that can be written to a Blu-ray disc. Features such as movie editing, adding a title or menu are not included, and BD-J is not supported. The only supported audio is linear PCM.
About Fixstars
Fixstars is a leading multi/many-core software development company. Since its founding in 2002, Fixstars has been utilizing their expertise in parallel programming for software development as well as offer optimization service that bring out the maximum capability of high performance processors, including Intel multi-core, NVIDIA GPUs, ARM, and Cell/B.E, with expertise in parallel programming. Fixstars targets the medical imaging, factory automation and digital content creation markets requiring high intensity image/video processing and offers innovative and cutting edge products. Fixstars is headquartered in Tokyo Japan and its customers include Boeing commercial and defense, Lockheed Martin and the Navy, United States Air force, Army, and Navy, Argonne National Lab, Toshiba, Canon, Sony, Panasonic, and Mizuho Securities.