Stream UK - encoding, transcoding repurposing

Encoding


Encoding is the conversion of offline material such as tapes to online material that can be viewed over the Internet or other IP network.

Stream UK has expertise in encoding across all major formats and has completed a 7 man-month study for the PRESTOSPACE project - a 9 million EUR project commissioned by the European Union to establish best practice in digitising archives.

On a daily basis, Stream UK encodes to all major internet, Mobile, iPod and PlayStation Portable formats.

The basic procedure for encoding is shown in the flow chart below, Stream UK maintains quality throughout the process:

Flowchart


If you would like more information or to request a quotation, email: encodings@streamuk.com or give us a call on freephone 0800 061 2361


Why don't I do it myself?

Sure you can.

But if quality is critical, then before you do, why not ask us to do a free sample encoding?

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Customer Spotlight

Way to Blue is the largest digital PR company in the UK.

Stream UK encodes an average of 100 film clips per week from Digibeta into 19 different formats that they then distribute through various channels.

The whole process is tracked through an online booking board that gives the client an overview of the process and allows them to set priorities.

'Working with Stream UK has hugely improved our ability to get the right clips to the right people,' Wez, Way to Blue.


Service Spotlight

The British Universities Film and Video Council (under its MAAS programme) chose Stream UK to encode its large archive of cultural material.

The classic encoding process included a high bitrate archive (MPeg-2 at 25Mbps), two web formats, back-up on to S-AIT and back-up of browser formats on to optical media.

All in all, a classic archive encoding example.


Facilities

Stream UK employs three full-time encoding engineers as of July 2006. We expect this to increase to five by the end of the year to cope with demand in our fastest growing sector.

We capture over SDI on to Digital Rapids-based systems at up to 350 Mbps.

The company is able to capture and encode HD in the latest JPEG-2000 lossless format. (Although frankly, we recommend MPEG2!)