CANOPUS PROCODER 3
Canopus has established itself as a maker of firstrate DV hardware, but how will it fare as market demands move more towards software? We take a look at the company’s first highprofile standaloneprogram, ProCoder.
ProCoder, Canopus’s first highprofile standalone program, is a media repurposing tool intended as a competitor to Discreet’s Cleaner 5. However, Canopus isn’t new to software and, in many ways, ProCoder is little more than a pullingtogether of smaller applications that the company developed for use with its DV editing hardware. Canopus’s Soft MPEG and the Web Video Wizard enabled encoding for VCD, DVD and the net, while Video Doctor provided a good selection of video filters, and deinterlacing and colour correction tools. The company also offers a standards conversion program allowing PAL DV to be changed to NTSC format or vice versa. Most of these programs were exclusive to Canopus’s hardware working only with the Canopus DV Codec. Now, however, they’re available for use with most Windowsbased DV systems, and brought together as a single, well structured application.
But, when you open the box and find that the program is dongleprotected, it becomes clear that Canopus isn’t entirely comfortable working in a softwareonly environment. Not being used to the open seas, the company is possibly a little too worried about piracy. Thankfully, the pack also contains a small fourport USB hub, ensuring that the dongle doesn’t leave the user short of USB ports.
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