High Density, High Video Quality Professional Encoder

The 3480 encoder series is built on a highly flexible platform that allows the core video processing engine to change in a factory-installed modular fashion to maintain your investment well into the future. And a hybrid hardware/software architecture is used to optimize flexibility, performance and density. The 3480 encoder platform is flexible enough to house both HD and SD with SDI inputs, as well as H.264 and MPEG-2 video codecs, alongside a wide array of audio processing technologies and codecs, including integrated IntelliGain real-time loudness measurement and correction technology. Channel configurations include up to 16 SD (in either H.264 or MPEG-2), or up to 8 HD signals (720p or 1080i, or a mix). The platform supports internal "in-the-box" or external statistical multiplexing. When coupled with the 3480 STC (stat mux controller), the 3480 encoder channels participate in real-time stat mux pools, both in MPEG-2 and H.264 to produce variable bitrate streams. The same statistical multiplexing capability is available within the platform.