Cinema Craft Encoder

Cinema Craft Encoder or CCE is a family of professional video encoders for DVD, Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray disk-based media development, supporting MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, AVC and MVC formats. Currently under development, a 4K UHD Blu-ray encoder will release in 2015.
Company Developments
In 2012, Custom Technology Corp (Japan) sold exclusive rights to the Cinema Craft product line to Silicon Philosophies (Germany). Visible Light Digital is the sole worldwide distribution partner for the Cinema Craft products.
Current Products
—MPEG/DVD --
* Cinema Craft Encoder SP3 (Windows 7 application)
* Cinema Craft Encoder MP (Mac Compressor 3.5/4 plug-in)

Capable of single-pass and multi-pass Constant bitrate and Variable bitrate encoding, CCE-SP3 and CCE-MP convert from AVI and QuickTime to MPEG-2 video and mp2 audio. DVD-compliant MPEG-2 video or custom MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video streams are supported as output formats.
-- AVC/H.264 (Blu-ray) --
* Cinema Craft HD LE Encoder (Version 2 - Windows 7/8.1)
* Cinema Craft HD AVC Encoder (Version 2 - Windows 7/8.1)
* Cinema Craft LEMX Encoder (Version 3 MX - Windows 7/8.1)
* Cinema Craft HDMX Encoder (Version 3 MX - Windows 7/8.1)
CCE-HDe (full-featured) and CCE-LE (lite edition) are single-pass and multi-pass video encoders for AVC H.264. Blu-ray compliant AVC video streams are the output format. All versions accept AVI, Quicktime, HVD and Planar 420 input formats. Version 2 (2013-) introduced multi-format native ingest of Apple ProRes HQ/422, Avid DNxHD, Canopus Lossless, RAW, YUV, DPX, XDCAM and MXF. Version 3 (2014-) "MX" is a multi-instance version that enables multiple encoder sessions to exist simultaneously.
-- MVC (3D Blu-ray) --
* Cinema Craft MVC Encoder (Version 2 - Windows 7/8.1)
* Cinema Craft 3DMX Encoder (Version 3 MX - Windows 7/8.1)
CCE-MVC is an MVC (Multiview Video Coding) encoder for 3D stereoscopic (Base & Dependent) video content, captured from multiple cameras. MVC technology is backward-compatible with 2D devices by rejecting the second (Dependent) view. 3D Blu-ray compliant MVC video streams are the output format. All versions accept AVI, Quicktime, HVD and Planar 420 input formats. Version 2 (2013-) introduced multi-format native ingest of Apple ProRes HQ/422, Avid DNxHD, Canopus Lossless, RAW, YUV, DPX, XDCAM and MXF. Version 3 (2014-) "MX" is a multi-instance version that enables multiple encoder sessions to exist simultaneously.
-- 4K/UHD (4K Blu-ray) --
Coming 2015
Discontinued versions
* Cinema Craft Encoder Lite (2001-2003) and Basic (2003-2009)
* Cinema Craft Encoder SP and SP2 - see most recent SP3
* Cinema Craft Encoder Pro and Presto (hardware-based systems)
* Cinema Craft Encoder HD AVC/LE Version 1 (2007-2011) - final version 1.14
* Cinema Craft Encoder MVC Version 1 (2010-2011) - final version 1.14
Cinema Craft versions prior to 1.10, and any unauthorized releases, are not supported by the manufacturer. These products cannot be upgraded to any later or current version.

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