Telestream Episode is an all-in-one, multiformat encoding application designed for post-production and new media workflows. Episode provides the highest quality video transcoding for the entire digital post-production workflow – from camera to delivery – with remarkable speed, powerful controls and cross-platform scalability at an affordable price.

Best Encoding Value
Find out for yourself why video professionals worldwide rely on Episode for its broad format support, transcoding automation features and unlimited scalability for distribution to new media outlets. With prices starting at $495, Episode is the future-proof solution that offers extensive support for current and emerging video and audio file formats, including Flash 9 and Flash 8 (VP6s, Vp6e), Windows Media, H.264, MPEG-1/-2/-4, VC-1, DV, 3GPP/2, M4A, MOV, WebM, other QuickTime codecs and more.

In addition to the extensive format support offered in the base model, Episode also enables full clustering capabilities and the ability to scale up to higher models for more formats and increased performance.

Quality
Best-in-class video processing, a 10-bit encoding engine and fine-tuning compression combine to allow you to generate pristine picture quality. Episode produces brilliant "true to the original" results for simple transcoding jobs as well as more complex encoding jobs such as standards conversion. In addition, bumpers, trailers and watermarks can also be added to enhance and protect your video content.

Speed
Episode's multi-threaded encoding engine is capable of utilizing the full power of multi-core workstations. In high volume workflows, Episode Engine maximizes throughput with unlimited simultaneous encodes. When encoding speed is critical, Episode can meet the demand with its unique Split-and-Stitch® distributed encoding.

Split-and-Stitch technology, available in Episode Engine, enables distributed and segmented encoding for any supported format, taking advantage of all available CPU power. Whether on a single workstation or across a cluster of machines, Split-and-Stitch
is able to achieve truly remarkable encoding speeds.

Formats
Episode supports the widest range of formats in its class allowing you to repurpose media for websites, mobile devices, television, archiving, disk authoring and more. Whatever your encoding needs may be, Episode can handle them.

Workflow
Episode was made with the creative professional in mind. Extensive control of codec and filtration parameters, along with a real-time preview, gives you complete hands-on control. In file-based workflows, automated and shared transcoding are a must and Episode can easily be configured to automatically pick up and deliver files to network shares and FTP servers. Episode can also be easily integrated into larger workflows via its command line and XML-RPC interfaces.

Flexibility
Equally at home on a laptop, in the field, or working as part of a cluster of dedicated machines, Episode can be reconfigured quickly and easily to meet the needs of the day, or the hour. Episode's unique one-click clustering and file sharing capabilities make "prep and submit" encoding workflows easy.. Episode's new visual workflow builder simplifies the encoding process and helps identify functions being performed and the status of work in progress.

Scalability
Collaboration and clustering are at the core of Episode's design. Easily join multiple machines together, both Mac and PC, and share encoding work among workstations. There is no need for costly add-ons or IT assistance. Episode's built-in file sharing system makes offloading work from one machine to another a snap. Simply prep your encoding work, send it off to the cluster and get it back when it's done.