Telestream Switch Pro for Mac

Name: Telestream Switch Pro for Mac
Brand: Telestream
SKU: SWPROM
Price: 499.0 USD
Availability: InStock

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SWPROM

MFR Part # (MPN): SW4PRO-M

The only tool you need to play, inspect and correct all your media files. Multiformat media player with deep video and audio inspection capabilities.

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Play It. Check It. Fix It. Deliver It.

Professional media player, inspector and correction tool for Mac and Windows.

Everything you need in one application. Switch lets you play a variety of web and professional media formats, inspect and adjust the properties of the file and export a new file. Designed for media professionals, Switch enables visual file inspection, single file transcoding and is an affordable software solution for professional media Quality Control.

Play It
Trust Switch for frame-accurate, smooth playback of all your media files, including captions and subtitles. Includes SDI out for external preview.

Check It
Inspect video properties, audio properties, captions, and subtitles. Includes loudness monitoring, compare media feature, and Timeline view showing video GOP structure.

Fix It
Make changes: trim, scale or crop your media; rearrange audio tracks; change speaker assignments and rewrap or encode your media.

Deliver It
Use the iTunes preset to create asset-only iTunes store packages, or publish your media directly to Vimeo, YouTube, or Facebook.

Affordable high-quality QC
With features such as professional audio meters with loudness monitoring, HDMI/SDI Output to an external monitor, easy media file comparison feature, and support for playback of captions, Switch Pro provides an affordable software solution for professional media Quality Control.

Caption playback and verification
Play CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions, as well as SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT) and WebVTT, SRT and STL subtitle files to verify timing and accuracy. Switch is the only software player with full support for CEA-708 caption decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support.

Deep file inspection
Switch gives you frame-accurate playback of all your media and lets you see detailed information about it in an intuitive, well-organized interface. See metadata (including DPP), bitrate, video essence and codec, audio channels, speaker assignments, and loudness levels. Also compare multiple files in a single window – great for ABR workflows.

What's New

Switch 4 adds improved performance, growing file support, OP-47/OP-42 Teletext caption playback and team collaboration.

Switch 4 is a free upgrade for Switch v2 and v3 customers who have Premium Support.

For customers without Premium Support, Switch 4 is a paid upgrade.

System Requirements

Windows Minimum System Requirements:

Operating Systems

Windows 7 64-bit SP1

Windows 8

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo or faster. Any Core i3, i5, or i7

4 GB or more

Graphics

Any graphics adapter that supports
Direct3D feature level 10.1 or better

256 MB or more

Display

1280 x 768 or larger

50 Hz or faster

Mac Minimum System Requirements

Operating Systems

OS X 10.10 and higher

All Macs that support 10.10 and higher

2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo or faster. Any Core i3, i5, or i7

4 GB or more

Display

1280 x 768 or larger

50 Hz or faster

*Note: Minimum specifications are the required hardware for playback of standard definition content. Playback of demanding content such as 4K, HEVC, and high frame rate video may require more powerful hardware.

PLAYER FORMAT SUPPORT

Containers:

AC3¹

AIFF

ASF¹

AVC (AVC Elementary Stream)

AVI (OpenDML)

HEVC^2,3 (HEVC Elementary Stream)

IMF⁴

M1V (MPEG-1 Video Elementary Stream)

M2V (MPEG-2 Video Elementary Stream)

MP3 (MPEG Layer 1, 2, 3 Audio
Elementary Stream)

MP4 (ISO Base Media Format)

MPG (MPEG-1 System Stream)

MPS (MPEG-2 Program Stream)

MTS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)

MXF (AS-11⁵ with UK DPP metadata)

MXF (OP-1a; AS-02, AS-03⁵, AS-11⁵)

MXF (OP-1a Proxy)

MXF (OP-1b)

MXF (OP-Atom)

SCC⁶

Video Codecs (decode only)

Apple QuickTime Animation RLE⁷

Apple ProRes

DNxHD⁴

DNxHR⁴

DV 25

DVCPro 25

DVCPro 50

DVCPro 100

DVCPro HD

H.263

H.264

H.265¹

JPEG

JPEG2000⁴

MPEG-1

MPEG-2²

MPEG-4

Uncompressed YUV

WMV⁸

Audio Codecs (decode only)

AC3¹

G.711 aLaw

G.711 uLaw

G.726

Microsoft ADPCM

MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2, 3

WMA¹

Captions:

Extraction and playback: CEA-608, CEA-708

DVB files

SCC⁶ files

SRT files

STL files

TTML/iTT/SMPTE-TT files

WebVTT (HTML5) files

ENCODE FORMAT SUPPORT⁸

Containers

MPEG-2 TS/PS

MPEG-4

MXF (OP-1a, OP-Atom)

Video Codecs

Apple ProRes⁹

MPEG-2 Video

x264

Audio Codecs

MPEG Layer 2

¹ Not supported in Switch Player.
² Not supported in Switch Player for Windows.
³ HEVC support of 8-bit 4:2:0 profiles in Elementary Streams, MPEG-2 Transport Stream or MP4 files.
⁴ Not supported in Switch Player and Switch Plus.
⁵ Advanced inspection of application-specific metadata included in Switch Pro.
⁶ Currently supports export of .scc files as part of an iTunes asset-only package.
⁷ Currently supports 24-bit and 32-bit only.
⁸ WMV playback available in Switch Plus and Pro, and available in Switch Player for Mac with Flip4Mac installed.
⁹ Switch export is available for Plus and Pro.
¹⁰ ProRes export on Windows is ProRes HQ 4:2:2 for iTunes only.

iTUNES PACKAGE EXPORT

Creates an asset-only iTunes package file (an itmsp file) which includes media content, secondary subtitle (.iTT or .scc files) or audio files, chapter information and an XML file.

DPP/AMWA CERTIFIED PLAYER

Switch Pro can visually QC DPP files on the desktop, playing back the files as well as displaying DPP AS-11 MXF metadata.

Includes Premum support first year

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