Expression Encoder 2 Upgrade - Retail Boxed

Microsoft Expression Encoder 2's approachable user interface gives designers, editors and producers the ability to generate gorgeous VC-1-encoded content wrapped in a Silverlight experience. Encode a wide array of file formats, produce live events, or run batch encodes from the command line to make your media ready for Silverlight.

Customize your video to guarantee viewers a rich, pixel-perfect media experience. Expression Encoder 2 adds simple cuts to any clip. Add titles, pre-roll and post-roll advertising, captions, metadata and more. Use custom job presets to ensure a consistent user experience and media quality, clip after clip.

Delivering a Web-ready Silverlight experience is easy. Import QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, and more into Expression Encoder, leverage the latest quality and speed improvements to the VC-1 codecs, choose your favorite Silverlight template and publish directly to your web server or Silverlight Streaming using Expression Encoder Publishing Plug-ins.

Product 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 for Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 Upgrade - FKA-00113

To use Microsoft® Expression® Encoder 2, you need:

• Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista® operating system
• PC with 1 GHz or faster processor
• 1 GB of RAM or more
• 1 GB of available hard-disk space
• Support for Microsoft DirectX® 9.0 graphics with Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) Driver, 128 MB of graphics RAM or more, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32-bits per pixel
• DVD-ROM drive
• 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor with 24-bit color
• Internet functionality requires Internet access (additional fees may apply)
• Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.