Expression Encoder 2.0
Microsoft Expression Encoder, encode a wide array of file-based media content, including QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, WMV, and more using the designer friendly Expression-standard user interface. Customize your media assets to match your brand or target your audience.
Features
Fastest Path to Silverlight
With more than a dozen built in Silverlight media player templates, Expression Encoder offers the fastest way to publish media assets to the web in a Silverlight experience. Add a custom publishing plug-in to deliver finished content directly to your server or service.
Cuts Editing
Make simple edits to clips directly in Expression Encoder. Cut out setup noise, mistakes or surprises from your video.
VC-1 Quality
VC-1 is a SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) standard codec that is a part of both HD-DVD and Blu-ray high definition optical disc specifications. Expression Encoder v2 supports the newest VC-1 encoder features offering greater control, higher quality and multi-core, multi-processor performance improvements for your Silverlight media experiences.
LIVE!
Live events offer a great way to deliver news, marketing or demo content to your customers in real-time. Expression Encoder offers simple setup and easy to use switching interface for mixing live and file-based content in your live production.
Encoding for Everyone
Encoding has traditionally been a specialist's task. Finished video projects were thrown over a wall to a compression expert, using a specialized application to fine tune media for final delivery. Expression Encoder provides an artist friendly user interface and easy to use presets to enable everyone in the media production workflow to encode consistent, high-quality Silverlight experiences.
Flexible File Import Support
Import files from the content creation application of your choice. AVI, QuickTime, MPEG and any codec with a DirectShow decoder can be imported into Expression Encoder and output as a WMV, ready for Silverlight.
Intelligent Encoding
Import existing WMV content, make edits and add fades. Expression Encoder will identify changes to the source file and only re-encode the modified sections of the file and not the entire clip, saving time and maintaining compression quality.
Mark Your Media
Watermark videos with still or animated overlays to define ownership or branding on viral videos. Add pre-roll advertising or legal disclaimers at the beginning and end of your video for total control of the viewing experience.
Control
Use the new Expression Encoder Object Model to access our encoding engine from other applications or processes. Use job presets to save multiple settings in an encoding job and apply these settings as a batch process via the Object Model or the command line.
Expression Media Integration
Use the powerful asset management tools to find and preview video and audio clips in Expression Media and then drag and drop the right clips to Expression Encoder for final output.
System Requirements
Processor:
Intel Pentium or AMD, 1 GHz
Operating System:
Windows Vista
Windows XP with Service Pack 2
Hard Disk:
350 MB
Memory:
512 MB RAM
Other:
Graphics processor that is DirectX 9-capable
1024 x 768 monitor resolution with 24-bit color
