Create Portable and DVD-ready Video - Blazingly Fast!
Engineered with hardware-based MPEG encoding technology, and designed with a PCI Express form factor, FireCoder generates MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files at blistering, faster-than-real-time speeds.

FireCoder is as versatile, as it is speedy! Use FireCoder to:

• Capture video from DV and HDV cameras
• Edit MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, including native HDV
• Author and burn DVDs
• Convert video into files compatible with Apple iPod® and Sony PSP™
• Export video projects from Grass Valley EDIUS 4.x and Adobe® Premiere® Pro 1.x NLE software

The hardware-software combination featured in the FireCoder package provides a variety of ways to help you reduce the time it takes you to prepare your video. [more...]

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Even with today's high-speed PCs, the time you spend waiting for your video projects to encode to MPEG format for DVDs or portable media devices can still stretch out to unbearable lengths. Instead of relying solely on the PC's CPU (as do software-only video editing, DVD authoring and format conversion products), the onboard MPEG encoding chip engineered into the FireCoder PCI Express board handles the tough encoding tasks.

The advantages of FireCoder are two-fold:

• Speed - Create MPEG-2 files for DVDs and MPEG-4 files for portable media devices much faster - often more than twice the speed of real-time in most cases
• Productivity - Free up your CPU for other work, while your video is being encoded.

FireCoder: Key Features

• MPEG-2/MPEG-4 encoding hardware technology, incorporated into a high-speed PCI Express design
• Faster-than-real-time MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video file creation
• IEEE 1394 OHCI FireWire input for DV and HDV capture
• Cut, stitch and trim MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and HDV video
• Video format conversion software, supporting Windows Media®, DivX®, DV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and more
• DVD authoring, "Watch" folder and batch conversion support
• Timeline export plug-ins for Grass Valley EDIUS 4.x, Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.x

FireCoder: Specifications

• FireCoder PCI Express bus card
• Installation CD-ROM (Device drivers, MPEG applications)
• User Manuals

• 1 x 6-pin IEEE 1394 FireWire
• 2 x 4-pin IEEE 1394 FireWire (for internal connection)

• MPEG-2: 720x480, 720x576, 704x480, 640x480, 480x480, 352x480, 352x576, 352x240, 352x288, 320x480, 320x240, 176x120
• MPEG-4: 720x480, 720x576, 704x480, 640x480, 480x480, 352x480, 352x576, 352x240, 320x240, 176x120

• MPEG-2: 29.97fps (NTSC), 25fps (PAL)
• MPEG-4: 15fps (NTSC), 30fps (NTSC), 25fps (PAL)

• MPEG-2: (ISO/IEC 13818-2) Main Profile @ Main Level (I, B, P frames) I-frame support only
• MPEG-4: (ISO/IEC 14496-14)

• MPEG-2: 128kbps - 15Mbps
• MPEG-4: 32kbps - 8Mbps
• Variable (one-pass) and Constant Bitrate support

• MPEG-2: 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz
• MPEG-4: 24kHz, 48kHz

• MPEG-2: MPEG-1 Layer 2
• MPEG-4: AAC

• MPEG-2: 96 to 384kbps
• MPEG-4: 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, 144, 182, 224, 256, 288kbps

• Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Pentium D, Intel Pentium M, Intel Celeron® D, AMD Athlon™ XP Processor or AMD Athlon MP Processor CPU
• 256MB RAM or more (512 recommended)
• 200MB free hard disk space for the applications
• DirectX 9.0c or later
• Windows® XP Home (Service Pack 2 or later), Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or later), or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• One free PCI Express x1 slot

• Limited warranty
• Access to the Product-related Downloads section for FireCoder, when you register your product in an active GV Desktop User Account

• How to Buy

• User Manual