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November 28, 2009
BitVice 2.9 UNIVERSAL Released.
With DVD VOB Multiplexing
Read more here
September 16, 2009
Video Purifier 1.4.6 Released.
Read more here
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November 28, 2009
BitVice 2.9 Released - Mac Universal
BitVice 2.9 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.9 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.8.1
- A lot of small bug fixes reported by users
- Remembers the last folders opened
- Overall improvements
Please check out preferences in BitVice
October 20, 2009
BitVice 2.8.1 Released - Mac Universal
BitVice 2.8.1 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.8.1 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.8
- Option to keep the multiplexed program stream after VOB creation
- Sometimes a VOB could not be created due to the target directory name
- Overall improvements
- Audio/Video now in excellent sync
Please check out preferences in BitVice
October 1, 2009
BitVice 2.8 Released - Mac Universal
BitVice 2.8 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.8 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.7.3
- Option to multiplex and create a mountable "ready to burn" DVD VOB Image
- Different types of audio files can now be set in preferences
- Bit rate for the AC3 compression can now be set in preferences
- Overall improvements
- Exporting/Compressing audio is now made in background while encoding the video so no more waiting for the audio
Please check out preferences in BitVice
September 21, 2009
BitVice 2.7.3 Released - Mac Universal
BitVice 2.7.3 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.7.3 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.7.2
- AC3 audio encoding on Intel Mac's
- Better performance on Mac OS 10.6.x
September 17, 2009
BitVice 2.7.2 Released - Mac Universal
BitVice 2.7.2 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.7.2 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.7.1
- Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard support
September 16, 2009
Video Purifier 1.4.6 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.4.6 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.4.6 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.4.5
- Fixed a bug where certain movies could not been opened
- Speed improvements
- Fixes for "Snow Leopard" Mac OS 10.6
- This release officially supports Mac OS 10.6 - Snow Leopard
July 23, 2009
BitVice 2.7.1 Released - Mac Universal
BitVice 2.7.1 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.7.1 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.7
- Calibrated the "Studio RGB" function.
We have calibrated the "Studio RGB" function in our YUV transform. Media 100 users will really appreaciate this to keep the contrast at perfect levels. For even better contrast, they should leave the "Use gamma 2.2" unchecked.
July 5, 2009
BitVice 2.7 Released - Mac Universal
BitVice 2.7 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.7 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.6
- Fixed a time code glitch when encoding "older" quicktime files
- UNIVERSAL BINARY - Runs on Intel AND PPC Macs
- Rewritten code base - very stable release
June 21, 2009
Video Purifier 1.4.5 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.4.5 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.4.5 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.4.4
- Improved noise detection and faster with older graphic cards
June 12, 2009
Video Purifier 1.4.4 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.4.4 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.4.4 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.4.3
- Support for all types of graphic cards
No more strange white areas
June 7, 2009
Video Purifier 1.4.3 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.4.3 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.4.3 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.4.1.2
- The deinterlacer is pushed further down in the call chain. This makes it faster
- A lot of gui improvements
- Bugfix in scaling after deinterlacing
- Faster
June 7, 2009
BitVice 2.6 Released - Mac Intel
BitVice 2.6 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.5.1 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.5.1
- Handles chaptermarkers
- Faster
May 10, 2009
BitVice 2.5.1 Released - Mac Intel
BitVice 2.5.1 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.5.1 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.5
- Handles strict/loose anamorphic source
- New settings added
- Fixed a bug in letterbox settings
- Support for 16 bit characters in gui
May 4, 2009
Video Purifier 1.4.1.2 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.4.1.2 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.4.1.2 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.4.1
- Easier handling of anamorphic video
- Improved and better scaler for interlaced video
- Faster
April 29, 2009
BitVice 2.5 Released - Mac Intel
BitVice 2.5 is free to download for all BitVice 2.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING BITVICE 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.5 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 2.4
- The scaler is improved. Now we are using the same scaler as in Video Purifier
- A motion adaptive de-interlacer (from Video Purifier) is included
- Optional automatic pillar/letterboxing added
- Faster
- The frame reader is improved
April 16, 2009
Video Purifier 1.4.1 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.4.1 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.4.1 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.4.0
- Added a motion adaptive deinterlacer - on request
February 18, 2009
Video Purifier 1.4.0 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.4.0 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.4.0 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.3.9
- Fixed a serious bug, which under some circumstances could cause
start and stop commands in playout mode to fail. It could leave both
the user and the application in a state of confusion.
- Overall faster playout in loop mode
- PPC code has been optimized
February 17, 2009
Video Purifier 1.3.9 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.3.9 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.3.9 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.3.8
- Historically, Purifier could not properly de-noise a few (up to seven) of the first and last frames of a movie. This weakness has been fixed.
February 12, 2009
Video Purifier 1.3.8 Released - Mac Universal
Video Purifier 1.3.8 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.3.8 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.3.7
- Universal Binary, runs on PPC and Intel
- Minor bug fixes
- Added yet another spatial filter
February 6, 2009
Video Purifier 1.3.7 Released - Mac Intel (only)
Video Purifier 1.3.7 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.3.7 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.3.6
- Faster
- Minor bug fixes
- New manual added
January 29, 2009
Video Purifier 1.3.6 Released - Mac Intel (only)
Video Purifier 1.3.6 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.3.6 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.2.4
- Adaptive letterboxing and pillarboxing
- Rewritten quicktime rendering engine
- Perfect color match
- A lot faster
- Other fixes and improvements
January 16, 2009
Video Purifier 1.3.4 Released - Mac Intel (only)
Video Purifier 1.3.4 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.3.4 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.2.x
- The noise engine is further developed. More sensitive and adaptive.
- On request: High Quality spatial filters added.
- Better gamma/color matching with source even if transcoding to another codec.
- Support for AJA v210 codec. (User must download the upgraded driver available from http://www.aja.com).
- Added advanced filter settings in GUI (CMD+ALT-F) where an option for fine-tuning the algorithm is found.
- Added option to switch off generating of "gama atom metadata" in the generated movie file.
- Other fixes and improvements
January 10, 2009
BitVice 2.4 Released - Intel (only) and Multi-Core support
BitVice 2.4 upgrade is free for all 2.x customers but still costs only USD 120.00 for BitVice 1.8.x or BitVice 1.7 owners.
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.4 FOR FREE HERE
EXISTING 1.7 or 1.8 CUSTOMERS UPGRADE HERE
What is new since 2.3
- Very fast and accurate 3d FIR filter for down/up conversion added.
- Removed "less good" scalers
- Better treatment of interlaced material
November 03, 2008
Video Purifier 1.2.1 Released - Intel (only)
Video Purifier 1.2.1 is free to download for all Video Purifer 1.x users
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING PURIFIER 1.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 1.2.1 FOR FREE HERE
What is new since 1.1
- Crop movie options
- Quicktime rendering engine is rewritten and faster and more reliable
- Handles all types of Quicktime movies
- Rendering out to AFP shares is no longer an issue
- Other fixes and improvements
August 14, 2008
BitVice 2.3 Released - Intel (only) and Multi-Core support
BitVice 2.3 upgrade is free for all 2.x customers but still costs only USD 120.00 for BitVice 1.8.x or BitVice 1.7 owners.
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING 2.x CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.3 FOR FREE HERE
EXISTING 1.7 or 1.8 CUSTOMERS UPGRADE HERE
What is new since 2.2
- Better scaling methods are now implemented
- Overall speed enhancements
- Fixed a bug where some quicktime files not was selectable from "Add to batch"
July 18, 2008
BitVice 2.2 Released - Intel (only) and Multi-Core support
BitVice 2.2 upgrade is free for all 2.0 or 2.1 customers but still costs only USD 120.00 for BitVice 1.8.x or BitVice 1.7 owners.
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING 2.0 or 2.1 CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.2 FOR FREE HERE
EXISTING 1.7 or 1.8 CUSTOMERS UPGRADE HERE
What is new since 2.1
- Option to uncheck Drop Frame Counting in NTSC 29.97 material
- Option to enter start time code offset for the output movie
- Automatic handling of 50/60fps material, subsampling to 25/30fps
- New manual added
Also a number of bug-fixes and enhancements since 2.1
July 12, 2008
BitVice 2.1 Released - Intel (only) and Multi-Core support
BitVice 2.1 upgrade is free for all 2.0 customers but still costs only USD 120.00 for BitVice 1.8.x or BitVice 1.7 owners.
We strongly recommend all customers to upgrade to this release.
EXISTING 2.0 CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO 2.1 FOR FREE HERE
EXISTING 1.7 or 1.8 CUSTOMERS UPGRADE HERE
What is new since 2.0
- DVNC enhancement
- Better load balancing on multi core
- Bug fixes in gui - no more "broken pipe"
- Presets for most common HD to SD encoding
June 23, 2008
BitVice 2.0 Released - Intel (only) and Multi-Core support
BitVice 2.0 upgrade costs USD 120.00 for BitVice 1.8.x owners.
Click here to upgrade your BitVice 1.8 license to 2.0
- Support and optimized for Apples Intel 32/64 bit computers
- MacOS 10.5.x Leopard
- Many times realtime in speed for certains computers
- GUI changes
Support and optimized for Apples Intel 32/64 bit computers
Now, BitVice uses all bells and whistles in unix to get highest speed ever. Some beta testers could not even clock the application.
MacOS 10.5 Leopard
BitVice 2.0 need Leopard and Intel cpu(s) to run
Speed enhancements
Ohh, yes. Try for your self.
GUI changes and a new Manual (Users Guide)
A new GUI and a new Users Guide are also in this release
February 6, 2008
BitVice 1.8 Released - Multi-Core
BitVice 1.8 upgrade is free for BitVice 1.7 users.
Click here to upgrade your BitVice 1.7 license for free
- Support and optimized for Apples multi-core architecture
- MacOS 10.5.x Leopard supprt
- Speed enhancements
- Minor GUI changes
Support and optimized for Apples multi-core architecture
Now, BitVice utilizes all cores on a multi-core machine, making encoding even faster but with same marvelous quality.
MacOS 10.5 Leopard support
BitVice 1.8 officially supports Leopard
Speed enhancements
BitVice 1.8 uses a technique known as load balancing on a multi-core computer. Test show's that one may running as many as 10 BitVice Droplets in parallel without a significant time loss on a 8-core machine. (Depending on memory configurations, hard-disks etc.)
Minor GUI changes
In the preferences window, we added a checkbox "Quit droplet application after last encode" - meaning that the droplet will die after last batch file being successfully encoded.
Once you have created a droplet in the folder where you want the resulting MPEG-2 files, you can drag and drop up to 200 QuickTime movies onto it.
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Innobits press releases |
Iron Maiden Chose BitVice
IRON MAIDEN CHOSE INNOBITS AND BITVICE FOR LIVE DVD
The British band Iron Maiden chose Swedish Innobits and their BitVice MPEG-2 encoder, for their live DVD "Death on the Road". With this operation Iron Maiden secured the highest possible image quality with available technology for their DVD. The result scored a complete success and the band expressed their desire to deepen its cooperation with Innobits for future video projects. The work is done and the band plans to release the DVD worldwide in Q1 of 2007.
Encoding of a movie, i.e., the reduction of its data size, is necessary for it to fit on a DVD disc. Iron Maiden did comparison tests with the industries leading encoders, including very expensive hardware encoders, but in the end chose BitVice as the tool for doing the encoding job. Innobits AB, contributed to the project with its BitVice product, technical advice and special software development.
Mr Steve Harris, band-leader, bassist and video editor of Iron Maiden says:
"We had tested almost every encoder on the market and found out that none came up to our standard for our live concert, when it comes to maintained image quality. Then we got Innobits encoder BitVice in our hands and were amazed at the result. All blue is blue, all red is red and the image is sharp as a razor and it dealt brilliantly with the smoke, speed and lighting of our show. When Innobits offered to help us with the encoding work, naturally we accepted at once".
"Normally, when shooting live concerts, the lighting is adapted to facilitate better control of the video. Mr Harris, though, is very uncompromising with the appearance of Iron Maiden shows and accepts no changes in the lighting, This, in combination with his action filled video editing style, resulted in a video which was extremely difficult to compress to DVD format, using MPEG-2 equipment and methods prevalent in the business. That is why the band found our competence and experience invaluable for this project", says Roger Andersson, President of Innobits AB.
Innobits have more than ten years of experience and a unique competence in the video encoding area. They have their names on several patents and also actively participated in standardization committees in this area. This competence, in combination with current innovations by Kent Olsson at Innobits, during the project, resulted in a DVD production, intended for all markets worldwide, with the highest possible image quality.
"We feel very honoured that Iron Maiden, with their high quality demands, chose us for encoding their new DVD", says Roger Andersson. "The cooperation with Iron Maiden fits well into developing our new service; to help actors in the movie and music industry to produce DVDs with highest possible image quality. This challenging project incited us to design even better versions of the software, like BitVice 1.7 and beyond, I am sure our customers will appreciate this."
For more contact info, including to the band, send an email to:
mailto:press@innobits.com
Or contact Roger Andersson, Phone: +4670 675 0119
About Innobits AB:
Innobits AB develops, produces and markets products and services for the video and music industry, primarily tools for video encoding as well as sound and movie restoration. Innobits is also pursuing several development projects for the digital TV and video industry. The new and existing products are not only for professional users, but also for a strongly growing group of new users, who want to take advantage of the superior digital format.
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