MediaReactor Options and Versions Page

MediaReactor Free
Need to create streaming media? MediaReactor is the quick and efficient way to professionally transcode your media to a format ready for a streaming server. Encode your content to Windows Media using our standard profiles or custom profiles made with the Profile Editor. Create multiple bit rate files encoded at several different bit rates in order to optimize content delivery. MediaReactor lets you use the latest Windows Media codecs and Windows Media encoding supports multiple processors and HyperThreading.

To let you experience MediaReactor’s capabilities we have made this limited version available for download. MediaReactor Free lets you create Windows Media and RealVideo files from either QuickTime or Video for Windows sources.

Please Note: Mediareactor Free cannot be upgraded to the Pro or Deluxe versions.

MediaReactor Free gives you all the retail version’s features:
• Quickly browse, preview and select source material
• Frame accurate trimming of clips
• Parameter templates for ease of setup
• Scaling & De-Interlace processing
• Convert all the files in a directory or subdirectory tree

MediaReactor Free lets you create Windows Media or RealVideo streaming media from:
• Video for Windows files (*.avi) containing media encoded with software only compression or uncompressed RGB
• QuickTime files (*.mov) containing media encoded with software only compression or uncompressed RGB

MediaReactor Pro
Want to streamline productions throughout your entire facility? Do direct transfers between your digital video equipment? Professionally transcode your media between video servers, streaming content servers, editing systems and workstations? Need only certain specific file format translations? MediaReactor Pro, is the answer for you!

With MediaReactor Pro you can:
• Quickly browse, preview and select source media
• Frame accurately trim clips
• Convert all files in a directory or a subdirectory tree

Additional Features:
• Parameter templates for ease of setup
• Scaling and De-Interlace processing
• SDK which supports COM based interface

MediaReactor Pro lets you create Windows Media or RealVideo streaming media, QuickTime & AVI files from:

AVI: Including Matrox & Pinnacle hardware, DV & other software codecs
Avid OMF: Including Media Composer, Symphony, Xpress & XpressDV with support for MJPEG, DV & Uncompressed codecs
AvidDS: SD/HD
DIF & DV: Native 525/625
DPS: Leitch Reality, Velocity & MediaFile
Jaleo: SGI
MPEG1: 4:2:0 System Streams
MPEG2: 4:2:0 & 4:2:2 Program & Transport Streams up to 50Mbps
QuickTime: Including DVS, AJA, VideoPump & Pinnacle hardware, Media100 & 844, DV, Sorenson & other software codecs
RTV: Newtek Toaster
Audio: AIFF, AU, MPEG Layer 2 & 3, WAV
Graphics: Abekas YUV (*.yuv), Iris RGB (*.sgi) JPEG (*.jpg) Bitmap (*.bmp) MS DIB (*.dib), Paintbrush (*.pcx) PhotoShop (*.psd), Portable Graphics Library (*.pgm, *.ppm) SGI RGB (*.rgb), Sun Microsystems Raster (*.ras, *.sun), Tagged Image Format (*.tif) Targa (*.icb, *.tga, *.vda), Vista (*.vst)

Available options include:

•Avid (US $995.00): Create media for Avid Xpress, Media Composer and Symphony systems.
•Uncompressed (US $995.00): Create media for workstations that use Pinnacle Targa3000 & CineWave or Optibase VideoPump hardware and Jaleo editing systems. Matrox (US $995.00): Create media for workstations that use Matrox hardware with support for MPEG, DV and Motion JPEG formats.
•Motion JPEG (US $995.00): Create media for workstations and servers that use Motion JPEG compression. Supports Pinnacle Targa2000/ReelTime/DC50, Matrox DigiSuite & Media100.
•Animation (US $995.00): Create still image files for use with graphics workstations and servers. Supported formats include Abekas YUV, Targa TGA, JPEG, SGI & Iris RGB.

For a more detailed list of supported formats, please download the Mediareactor 2.0 Supported Formats PDF file (Adobe Acrobat required)

Please contact Drastic to confirm codec availability

Media Reactor SDK
To help integrate MediaReactor into your workflow an SDK is provided. An interface to MediaReactor's conversion engine is provided through COM technology. If required a support program may be tailored to meet your needs.

MediaReactor Deluxe

Need to streamline production throughout your facility? Do direct transfers between your digital video equipment? Professionally transcode your media between video servers, streaming content servers, editing systems and workstations? Want all options available with MediaReactor? MediaReactor Deluxe is the answer for you! MediaReactor Deluxe lets you use any of the supported equipment formats as the source and transcode it to streaming media and professional video as well as professional audio formats.

Use MediaReactor to :
• Quickly browse, preview and select source media
• Frame accurately trim clips
• Convert all files in a directory or a subdirectory tree

Additional features
• Parameter templates for ease of setup
• Scaling and De-Interlace processing
• SDK which supports COM based interface

MediaReactor Deluxe Inputs:

AVI: Including Matrox & Pinnacle hardware, DV & other software codecs
Avid OMF: Including Media Composer, Symphony, Xpress & XpressDV with support for MJPEG, DV & Uncompressed codecs
AvidDS: SD/HD
DIF & DV: Native 525/625
DPS: Leitch Reality, Velocity & MediaFile
Jaleo: SGI
MPEG1: 4:2:0 System Streams
MPEG2: 4:2:0 & 4:2:2 Program & Transport Streams up to 50Mbps
QuickTime: Including DVS, AJA, VideoPump & Pinnacle hardware, Media100 & 844, DV, Sorenson & other software codecs
RTV: NewTek Video Toaster
Audio: AIFF, AU, MPEG Layer 3, WAV
Graphics: Abekas YUV (*.yuv), Iris RGB (*.sgi) JPEG (*.jpg) Bitmap (*.bmp) MS DIB (*.dib), Paintbrush (*.pcx), PhotoShop (*.psd), Portable Graphics Library (*.pbm, *.ppm, *pnm), SGI RGB (*.rgb),Stardent (*.avs), Sun (*.ras, *.sun), Tagged Image Format (*.tif), Targa (*.icb, *.tga, *.vda), Vista (*.vst), X Windows (*.xbm, *.xpm)

MediaReactor Deluxe Outputs:

AVI: Including Matrox & Pinnacle hardware, DV & other software codecs
Avid OMF: Including Media Composer, Symphony, Xpress & XpressDV with support for MJPEG, DV & Uncompressed codecs
AvidDS: SD/HD
DPS: Leitch Reality, Velocity & MediaFile
Jaleo: SGI
QuickTime: Including DVS, AJA, VideoPump & Pinnacle hardware, Media100 & 844, DV, Sorenson & other software codecs
RTV: Newtek Video Toaster
RealVideo: Standard Profiles (*.rm)
Windows Media Video Files: MPEG4, WM7 & WM8 codecs (*.wmv)
Audio: AIFF, AU, Microsoft Wave (*.wav), Windows Media Audio files (*.wma)
Graphics: Abekas YUV (*.yuv), Iris RGB (*.sgi), JPEG (*.jpg), Bitmap (*.bmp), MS DIB (*.dib), Paintbrush (*.pcx), PhotoShop (*.psd), Portable Graphics Library (*.pgm, *.ppm), SGI RGB (*.rgb), Sun (*.ras, *.sun), TIF (*.tif), Targa (*.icb, *.tga, *.vda), Vista (*.vst)

For a more detailed list of supported formats, please download the Mediareactor 2.0 Supported Formats PDF file (Adobe Acrobat required)

Please contact Drastic to confirm codec availability

Media Reactor SDK
To help integrate MediaReactor into your workflow an SDK is provided. An interface to MediaReactor's conversion engine is provided through COM technology. If required a support program may be tailored to meet your needs.