Agility Workgroup Encoder

Agility Workgroup speeds time-to-Web for post-production houses, production companies, growing service bureaus and aggregators, by applying the same streaming media automation technology pioneered in the company's massively scalable enterprise-class encoding platform.

For video professionals encoding streaming media in multiple formats and bitrates, Agility Workgroup can provide as much as a tenfold increase in streaming media output when matched against widely used desktop tools. It speeds time-to-Web by automating the four phases of the encoding process: content acquisition, pre-processing, encoding and distribution. The Agility Workgroup encoder is designed to fit easily within the video professional's existing workflow and ships with built-in profiles for encoding media in Real, Microsoft, QuickTime and MPEG-1. Users simply load tape as usual, select the segment and method for encoding, and press the encode button. Agility Workgroup controls the tape deck, captures the source media in real time, applies the specified pre-processing filters, and encodes the media into any number (or combination) of formats and bitrates. It also can apply real-time color correction, watermarking and other pre-processing features -- eliminating the need to capture media in a non-linear editor in order to prepare it for encoding.