MediaReactor
Convert media  formats - for web, presentation and broadcast


MediaReactor is a media file translation system targeted at the post production professional.

MediaReactor specializes in the SD, HD and 2k to 5k file formats post houses use every day. Common formats include MXF, OMF, DPX, TIFF, TGA, MPG, AVI, MOV, WAV, AIFF, and plugins provide support for other formats such as SGI-MOV, DS-GEN, HDR/YUV/RAW, Jaleo-JS and DPS. Video, timecode, metadata and up to 8 channels of audio are transcoded using the highest quality conversions.

Create and share media between all your digital video systems. It is a quick and efficient way to convert your media to any required format.

Professionally transcode your media between video servers, streaming content servers, editing systems and workstations.

Post-Production facilities use it to do all digital transfers between editing suites. Create streaming media for use as dailies. Broadcasters can re-purpose content for diffusion on the Web. MediaReactor is available fully featured or in a basic version to which you can then add modules depending on your task requirements. Modules are available for: Avid, Uncompressed video, Matrox, Motion JPEG and Animation.

For updated information on the Mediareactor product range please visit our website: s3dpostproduction.co.uk

Features in brief:

Supports DPX, Cineon and all common formats

Convert between video and still formats

Repurpose content quickly

Configure templates and batch runs

 

File Type

Format

Read

Write

Notes

AVI

Video for Windows codecs installed on system

Yes

Yes

DivX, xVID, MS DV, Sony DV,
Panasonic DV, Cinepak, Indeo, RGB, etc.

 

Matrox MPEG HD

Yes

No

Axio

 

Matrox MJPEG

Yes

Yes

Legacy Digisuite

 

Matrox DV & MPEG (MMES)

Yes

Yes

Legacy Digiserver, LX and RT series

 

Targa 2K MJPEG

Yes

Yes

Legacy Pinnacle systems

 

YCbCr 8 and 10 bit (4:2:0, 4:2:2 & 4:2:2:4)

Yes

Yes

AJA, Bluefish and Blackmagic
SD and HD systems

DPS

MJPEG

Yes

No

Leitch Reality based systems

DV & DIF

DV25

Yes

No

Native 525/625 Streams

GEN

RGB and 8bit YCbCr

Yes

Yes

Avid DS - SD & HD

GXF

DV, MPEG

Yes

No

Grass Valley SD & HD systems

JS

RGB and 8bit YCbCr

Yes

Yes

Jaleo Editing (SGI)

MXF

IMX (D10) 30, 40 & 50 mbps

Yes

Yes

Sony XDCAM, Quantel

 

DV (DV25)

Yes

No

Sony XDCAM

 

MPEG HD

Yes

Yes

Sony XDCAM HD

 

IMX

Yes

No

Sony eVTR

MPEG 1

4:2:0 System Streams

Yes

Yes

VideoCD & Proxy

MPEG 2

4:2:0 Program Streams

Yes

Yes

Supports SD & HD including DVD

 

4:2:0 Transport Streams

Yes

No

Supports SD & HD including HDV

 

4:2:2 Program & Transport Streams

Yes

No

Supports SD & HD

MOV

Apple or third party codecs installed on system

Yes

Yes

MJPEG A & B, DV/DVCPRO,
Animation, BMP, Cinepak, MPEG4, Sorenson, etc.

 

DV25 & DV50

Yes

Yes

Final Cut Pro

 

IMX (30, 40 & 50 mbps)

Yes

Yes

Final Cut Pro

 

YCbCr 8 & 10bit

Yes

Yes

AJA, Blackmagic, Cinewave

 

AVR, JFIF, DNxHD & DV

Yes

Yes

Avid Quicktime

 

Media 100

Yes

Yes

 

MOV

QuickTime Reference movie

Yes

No

Avid export option

MV

MVC1, MVC2, JPEG & RGB

Yes

No

SGI Quicktime

OMF

ABVB AVR codecs

Yes

Yes

Legacy Avid editors

 

Meridien JFIF and YCbCr (1:1)

Yes

Yes

Avid MediaComposer, Symphony,
Newscutter & Xpress

 

DV25

Yes

Yes

Avid editors including XpressDv

RM

Standard profiles

No

Yes

Real Video

RTV

YCbCr 8 bit

Yes

Yes

NewTek Video Toaster

WMV/ASF

Version 7, 8 & 9 codecs including HD profiles

Yes

Yes

Windows Media

YUV

10 & 8 bit YCbCr and RGB

Yes

Yes

Uncompressed Raw Stream with header

AIFF

PCM audio

Yes

Yes

Audio Interchange File Format

WAV

PCM Audio

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Wave audio

MP3

Compressed audio

Yes

No

MPEG Layer 3 audio

AU

PCM audio

Yes

Yes

NeXT/Sun audio

DPX

10bit Log RGB, 10bit YCbCr,

32bit RGBA

Yes

Yes

Digital Moving Picture Exchange
Bitmap sequences

Graphics

JPEG, BMP, SGI, YUV, Targa,
PSD, TIFF, Cineon, VPB

Yes

Yes

Still image sequences

(Note: VPB is read only)

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

Available for download here.

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!

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 module options include:

Avid: Create media for Avid Xpress, Media Composer and Symphony systems.

Uncompressed: Create media for workstations that use Pinnacle Targa3000 & CineWave or Optibase VideoPump hardware and Jaleo editing systems.

Matrox: Create media for workstations that use Matrox hardware with support for MPEG, DV and Motion JPEG formats.

Motion JPEG: Create media for workstations and servers that use Motion JPEG compression. Supports Pinnacle Targa2000/ReelTime/DC50, Matrox DigiSuite & Media100.

Animation: Create still image files for use with graphics workstations and servers. Supported formats include Abekas YUV, Targa TGA, JPEG, SGI & Iris RGB.

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)