With Compression Master 4 from Popwire the reliability and speed of server based video encoding is brought to the desktop. With its extensive format support Compression Master 4 converts to and from all common formats such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Quicktime, DV, H.264, 3GPP, Flash and Windows Media for anything from satellite- and web broadcasting, DVD authoring to the video enabled iPod and 3G mobile phones. Compression Master 4 runs on any Macintosh computer capable of running Mac OS X.

Compression Master 4 has a new intuitive graphical interface that makes you more productive and efficient without getting in your face. Your media will look and sound better than ever before, and thanks to the professional 80+ supplied templates you can get started right away.

Popwire’s codecs are blazingly fast while delivering unsurpassed quality. Additionally, these codecs give you access to over 45 media formats such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DV, Quicktime, H.264, 3GPP and native Mac OS X encoding of Windows Media. Native YCbCr processing together with innovative pre-processing such as Popwire’s deinterlacing with edge detection interpolation, three-level noise reduction, frame rate filter that enables true inverse telecine as well as conversion between NTSC, PAL, film and HD to SD.

Added to the standards support in version 4.0 are GFX, MXF and IMX and transport streams support for H.264 and MPEG-2. A new preview has also been integrated which allows the user to view media.