Canopus PROCODER 2 User Manual

Installation

and

User Guide

Canopus Corporation

711 Charcot Ave.

San Jose, CA 95131

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for SOFTWARE

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Application Settings

Advanced Features

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1: Introduction

Welcome

Questions

on the Support

Speed without Limits

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Produce, Perfect, Process

Multiple Outputs from Single Source

High-quality Codec technologies

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2: Installation

for registration of your

for customer support, and if

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folder. Click the

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3: ProCoder Wizard

Convert a Source

for conversion. If you cannot see the file you want to load but you know

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file extension may

file extension. Windows Media Player

file extension not matching the file type.

If you want to modify the In/Out points or change the cropping

footage that appears before the scrubber will not be included in your

final converted video. Click and drag the scrubber to set the video’s out

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Advanced Settings

Choose Conversion Settings

file conversion to occur.

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Advanced Output Settings

button.

About the Formats

AVI (DV) –

DivX is a popular format that is very versatile. It is commonly

QuickTime is also more of a file type versus a format.

Windows Media files are often used or web video

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Choosing Output Location

button to choose the folder where you want your

file you’re currently encoding. Leaving this option disabled simply adds

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Confiming Your Settings

file, the target file and the output format. Verify that this information is

Advanced Output Settings

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Converting Files

Conversion Finished

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Create a Watch Folder

button to specify a Watch folder. Click the

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