Versatile card-and-software bundles combine our Flux advanced PCIe capture and pre-processing cards with the easy-to-use Stream LE software, letting you add real-time, multi-format capture, encoding, transcoding and streaming to an existing Windows workstation.

Superior hardware and software for encoding excellence
Today's ever-expanding multi-screen content distribution opportunities and file-based media production workflows enhance video communications, streamline operations and let you reach wider audiences with your content than ever before. Creating and transforming live and file-based media at superior quality for the latest viewing platforms, devices and applications requires a flexible, tightly-integrated solution designed specifically to meet the challenges of efficient multi-format encoding.

Digital Rapids' Flux encoding bundles add real-time, multi-format video and audio encoding, transcoding and streaming capabilities to your existing PC workstation, letting you transform your media at higher quality, faster and more easily than ever before. Featuring the same powerful Flux hardware used in our StreamZ, StreamZHD and StreamZ Live studio encoding systems, Flux card-and-software bundles combine the quality and performance advantages of hardware-based preprocessing with the format flexibility of software codecs, all controlled by an intuitive, streamlined user interface.

Multiple formats, one easy workflow
No single encoding format is perfect for all viewing devices, audiences or applications. The tightly integrated Stream LE software lets you encode from live input sources or transcode from existing media files to over two dozen standard or optional codec and container formats, all from a single interface for easy operation. Standard and optional output formats supported include VC-1 (Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Media, IIS Smooth Streaming), AVC (also known as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10), MPEG-2, QuickTime, Adobe Flash (H.264 or On2 VP6), MXF, GXF, JPEG2000, XDCAM HD, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra (Panasonic P2) DVCPro, AVI and many more, with a flexible architecture for easy future format expansion. Additional formats such as QuickTime-wrapped Apple ProRes can be used as input sources for transcoding.

Video and audio can be encoded to files or live streams in multiple formats, resolutions and bit rates simultaneously in real time, giving you exceptional productivity while targeting multiple distribution channels or workflows with media optimized for each application. You can peform as many simultaneous real-time encodes as your system's CPU horsepower will allow. Whatever your application, Flux-powered encoding solutions can output to the formats and specifications you need with the highest video and audio quality possible.

Hardware-powered quality and performance...
Optimized for encoding and streaming, the Flux hardware builds on the advanced video processing technology that has earned Digital Rapids' solutions their reputation for the industry's highest encoding quality. Hardware-based, real-time video pre-processing features including motion-adaptive de-interlacing with pixel-level analysis 'groom' the input signal to be more 'compression-friendly'. The result is superior visual quality and the most efficient use of bandwidth in the compressed output, while leaving the host system's CPU free to encode more simultaneous multi-format outputs.

Additional hardware features including video adjustments, scaling, color space conversion and graphic overlay enable refinement of incoming sources and the addition of branding such as logos. Ensuring superior reliability, the Flux hardware features robust handilng of irregularities or disruptions in incoming digital or analog source signals. On HD-capable Flux models, an incoming SDI signal can even be switched between HD and SD sources without interrupting in-progress encoding and streaming.

Flux capture and pre-processing cards are available in multiple models offering a comprehensive choice of input connectivity and source format support.

Standard-definition Flux hardware is available in digital-only (SDI) and digital-plus-analog models. High-definition models of Flux are available in all-digital (SDI, HD_SDI, dual-link HD-SDI and 3G-SDI video input support with SDI embedded audio) and digital-plus-analog (adding composite, S-video and SD-HD component analog video; balanced/unbalanced analog audio; and AES digital audio) configurations. Real-time down-conversion of dual-link and 3G-SDI inputs leverages new facility infrastructures and allows easy repurposing of such sources without the workflow inconvenience and expense of external format converters. Flux HD boards also provide a future-proof upgrade path to emerging applications empowered by 3G-SDI, such as 1080p/60 and 1080p/50 distribution, advanced JPEG2000 mastering and 3D production. Dual-channel, all-digital models support capture and encoding from two distinct input sources simultaneously.

... tightly integrated with streamlined, versatile software
The included Stream LE software leads you step-by-step through the process of creating multiple encoded outputs. The Stream LE interface is easy enough for novices, yet fully configurable for expert users. Simply choose your video and audio inputs (encoding from a live input source, or transcoding from existing digital media files), select the formats you wish to encode to, and choose your destination (media files, live streams or both). Stream LE lets you adjust compression settings as precisely as you want, from production-tested presets to in-depth manual controls. For even more software power, you can add the optional Stream FE software upgrade, with expanded workflow automation and integration capabilities.

The parameters associated with teach encoding session can be saved in whole or in puart in XML-based project files for easy reuse. Whenever you want to perform similar tasks, simply load your project file and hit the start button; Stream LE will encode and deliver your content with as little as one mouse click. The Stream LE software - one interface that controls all encoding parameters and manages the transforming, streaming and archiving of your media. One click to reach a whole world of new audiences and applications.

Flux capture and pre-processing cards with the Stream-LE software - the ideal hardware and software combination for today's demanding multi-format media encoding needs.

	Video and audio capture hardware optimized for real-time encoding and streaming
	Tightly integrated, easy-to-use software for multi-format encoding, transcoding and streaming
	Simultaneous output to multiple formats, resolutions and bitrates
	Advanced real-time video pre-processing for superior visual quality and bit rate efficiency
	Comprehensive input options including analog, SD-SDI, HD-SDI, dual link HD-SDI and 3G-SDI (inputs vary by model)
	Dual-channel models encode two distinct sources simultaneously
	PCI Express interface for broad Windows workstation compatibility

Click here for a complete chart of formats for each level of software.
	AVC/H.264
	Microsoft Silverlight (H.264, VC-1, Windows Media WMV, live and on-demand IIS Smooth Streaming)
	Adobe Flash (H.264, or On2 VP6, Dynamic Streaming)
	H.264 for Apple iPhone with integrated segmenting
	MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, 3GPP
	XDCAM HD, DVCPro, Avid DNxHD
	MXF, GXF, LXF, Omneon
	JPEG2000
	QuickTime (including Apple ProRes import)
	AVI, Uncompressed
	RED R3D (import)
	Dolby Digital (AC-3) and Digital Plus, Dolby Pulse AAC, MP3, WAV
	and more!

OPTIONAL UPGRADES:
	Flux Breakout Box: 1RU Rackmount Breakout Box for DRC-6550 and DRC-3550 Flux capture cards. Audio input connections include: unbalanced audio (2xRCA Connections), balanced audio (2xXLR), AES (4xBNC), embedded SDI (BNC); video input connections include: dual-link HD-SDI/3G/HD-SDI/SDI* (2xBNC), component video (3xBNC), composite video (BNC), and S-video. LTC input also included.		$655
	Flux Breakout Cable: Video/audio breakout cable for analog capable Flux capture cards (supported only with DRC-6550 and DRC-3550)		$165