Access the power of PYRO Kompressor HD as a fully integrated component in Premiere Pro CS3 and After Effects. Speed up your DVD production and quickly re-render parts of your production during those last minute changes without rendering the entire project again.

Exporting your project to MPEG-2 HD or H.264 for HD-DVD or Blu-ray production can take hours. Save time and money by accelerating the process with Pyro Kompressor HD.

• Accelerate high-definition video authoring compression with    Pyro Kompressor HD’s high-quality MPEG-2 and H.264 compression for DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray Disk, web streaming media, dailies, archival storage, IPTV, VOD or other uses.
• Editors and Effects artists: Accelerate test-compression runs during video editing, compositing, or special effects work
• Use with Pyro Kompressor HD’s software application or from within popular Adobe video applications.
• Future-proofed - field-upgradeable functions; switch in milliseconds
• Programmable for HD video pre/post-processing, such as advanced temporal filters. Develop your own algorithms or codecs.

Pyro Kompressor HD’s H.264/AVC encoder is a powerful, hardware accelerated tool for converting video data into H.264 compressed video. H.264 is known by several names including AVC (Advanced Video Coding), or MPEG-4 Part 10. H.264 is being widely adopted and is already a major video standard because it can replace several older, popular formats while offering significant image quality and bitrate size. H.264 offers image quality which usually exceeds that of MPEG-2 with as little as half the bit-rate and file size. Pyro Kompressor HD H.264/AVC Pro offers excellent image quality. It supports all standard and advanced features of the H.264 spec including Baseline, Main and High Profiles as well as CABAC and CAVLC. The software also includes AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) encoding and decoding. The encoder is ideal for a wide variety of applications ranging from post-production to IPTV, web streaming, VOD, archive, mobile, broadcasting and storage. It offers presets for Apple iPod, Sony PSP, AVCHD and many more professional formats. The software also includes an H.264 decoder, enabling playback of H.264/AVC files in Windows Media Player and other compatible programs. H.264 is also the advanced compression standard adopted for the newest Adobe® Flash® standard.

Latest Features just added to the Pyro Kompressor:

• Adobe Flash compliant F4V files provide video content for AVC/H.264 live streaming with the latest version of Adobe's Flash Media Server 3
• Added Sony XDCAM format support features such as MXF wrapper support for XDCAM HD/EX
• Added transcoding to uncompressed RAW/YUV formats
• Added Mj2 file format support for Motion JPEG 2000 decoding

Features of Pyro Kompressor HD™ Software Application

• Hardware-accelerated MPEG-2 and H.264 encoding
• Transcoding from a variety of compression input formats
• Up and down-scaling
• Frame-rate/sample-rate conversion
• Custom or pre-defined settings for output
• ‘Watch folder’ for background job automation
• Specify in and out points for encoding
• Chapter support
• Batch encoding
• Saving/restoring batch job lists
• Drag & drop new files into the batch tasks
• Specify target output file size
• Mux’ing streams from different input files

Input Formats

• MPEG-1"
• MPEG-2
• DV
• H.264/AVC
• VC-1*"
• DVCPRO 25/50"
• DVCPRO 100 (HD)
• JPEG 2000*"
• AVCHD"
• AVC-Intra"
• DirectShow import (Windows)
• QuickTime import (Windows + Mac)
• YUV files import
• RGB files

* Windows platform only
" These plug-ins coming soon, pending QA

Output video formats:

• Accelerated MPEG-2 (and software MPEG-1)
• Accelerated H.264/AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10) Pro level encoder

Output audio formats:

• PCM
• MPEG-1 Audio
• AAC
• Dolby Digital (AC-3)
• WMA

Output muxer formats:

• MPEG-2 program or transport stream
• MP4
• ASF

Integrated with Adobe

• Acceleration functionality is plug-and-play enabled in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 and Adobe After Effects® CS3 Professional. Accelerator controls are integrated in the Adobe GUI, with an included Adobe-compatible plug-in.

The Accelerator Board

• One massively-parallel processor with 336 RISC processors, delivering a teraOPS of video horsepower.
• Fits 4-, 8- and 16-lane PCI Express slots (non-graphics)
• 256 MBytes memory
• Approximately 15 Watts typical power, 5 Watts idle power
• 2.7”x 5” board dimensions, single-slot clearance
• Low-profile fan for reliable operation in low-airflow systems
• 1-year warranty from ADS Tech

Easy to install

• Based on the PCI Express® standard, the accelerator card is easy to install and is compatible with more systems, compared to the older PCI/PCI-X standard.

Ease of Deployment and Support

• PCI Express is inherently easier to install and support than older interface standards
• Extensive testing with multiple industry test labs helps ensure compatibility with modern PC and Apple Intel-based systems.

Platforms

• Available for Windows® XP Pro 32-bit & Apple Mac OS® X Leopard
• Refer to http://www.pyroav.com/ for a list of supported systems and motherboards.

Plug-and-play with Additional Encoder Applications

• Pending testing, a number of video software companies have video software applications that incorporate accelerator-compatible interfaces. They will be announced as soon as they are tested.

Operating systems and system slots:

• Microsoft® Windows® XP, (the tested and supported Service Pack is SP2), with Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0, QuickTime 7 Pro for windows.
• Mac OS® X Leopard™ support (coming soon)
• 1 PCI Express® slot available for the accelerator card. The slot can be 4-lane, 8-lane, or a 16-lane non-graphics slot.