Canopus procoder

Has anyone used this product and could they please help. The preview windows within the program say "cant render preview image" has anyone got any ideas.
thanks

 

Which Procoder are you using ? No doubt you know that this professional software has an excellent support dept. -- It comes with the price they are asking for their software.

We are using Edius Pro 3 at our offices ! we get excellent support from :-

http://www.canopus.us/US/support2/support_index.asp

 

is their any other programs that do the same thing that are as easy to use?

 

None that I know of !! you cant compare commercial editing and authoring software which cost 1000 's used in studios to give you the imaging created for Spielberg. As for the ease of use ~~ smiles ~~ we have specialist that are trained first before using it.

 

Yeah thats true but i just want something thats just gonna brighten u those dull dvd rips

 

Canopus Procoder is an mpeg encoder, not a filtering/editing application.
Try Vegas, Pinnacle, or Premiere.

 

Procoder 2--

> Aspect ratio conversion
> Frame rate interpolation and conversion
> Automatic adaptive deinterlacing
> NTSC/PAL conversion
> 3:2 pulldown
> Multi-pass VBR processing
> Full HD support for MPEG and Windows Media
> VOB file and DVD-Video image creation with chapter points
> Save droplets for quick, drag-and-drop conversion
> Job queuing manager with priority functions
> Separate audio import/export options including multiplexing
> Export plug-in for Canopus EDIUS and Adobe® Premiere® Pro (includes DVD-Video image export options)
> Multiprocessor and Hyper-Threading support for faster encoding
> Multiple colorspace support – including YUV, RGB

ProCoder 2.0 provides powerful tools to prepare source video for conversion. Features such as stitching allow multiple source clips in different formats and resolutions to be linked together to create one or more target clips. Video and audio filters provide useful enhancement tools, such as bitmap overlay, cropping and volume adjustment, to ensure perfect input before encoding, while target filters add the flexibility to make specific adjustments for particular output formats.

Then you export to Canopius Edius for finalizing.

 

Basically the dvd's that i download arent perfect quality so all i want is a program that will help me to enhance the quality of the dvd could you reccomend a particular program.

Thanks

 

Garbage in, garbage out.
You can't improve what's not there.
You can do some filtering and such, in the programs I already mentioned.
Try Vegas, Pinnacle, or Premiere.

 

I'm having some trouble converting movies for a 4:3 format (full-screeen).

When I use DVD Santa, selecting 4:3, the films appear full screen, however it isn't the hightest quality converter and sometimes the movement appears stilted.

Canopus Procoder produces excellent quality films but the 4:3 format which I select makes the movies appear the same as if I had selected 16:9 - a thin strip in the middle of the screen.

I'd prefer to convert using Canopus (as DVD Santa also puts chapters every 3 mins making it impossible to fast forward through "slowly") but how can I configure the settings to produce full screen. Previously I've had no problems but recently all the conversions I do come out looking widescreen