Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Affordable high-quality QC
With features such as professional audio meters with loudness monitoring, HDMI/SDI Output to an external
monitor, easy media file comparison feature, and support for playback of captions, Switch Pro provides an
affordable so ware solution for professional media Quality Control.
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Caption playback and verification
Play CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions, as well as SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT) and WebVTT, SRT and STL subtitle
files to verify timing and accuracy. Switch is the only so ware player with full support for CEA-708 caption
decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support. See MacCaption
(/captioning/overview.htm)/CaptionMaker (/captioning/overview.htm) for caption creation.
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Play It
Trust Switch for frame-accurate, smooth playback of all your media files, including captions and subtitles. Includes
SDI out for external preview.
Check It
Inspect video properties, audio properties, captions, and subtitles. Includes loudness monitoring, compare media
feature,
and Timeline
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Fix It
Make changes: trim, scale or crop your media; rearrange audio tracks; change speaker assignments and rewrap or
encode your media.
Deliver It
Export your corrected media or publish it directly to Vimeo, Youtube, or Facebook!
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Play It
Multi-format playback support includes MXF, IMF, GXF, MPEG-2 Program Streams and Transport Streams, and
formats such as MOV, MP4, WMV, and more!
Switch can also play HEVC and 4K files, DNxHD, and JPEG2000 (requires Switch Plus or Pro).
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All the playback controls you expect
Switch has all the playback control features you’d expect in a professional player such as JKL navigation, fast
forward and rewind, slow motion, as well as single-frame forward and back.
“Jump To” allows you to jump to a specific timecode, frame or time in your video.
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Switch will play back embedded CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions, as well SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT captions)
and WebVTT, SRT and STL subtitle files. Switch is the only so ware player with full support for CEA-708 caption
decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support.
Switch will also decode captions from virtually all wrappers and formats, so you can verify captions within your
MXF or Transport Stream file.
Check It
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Add secondary files
You can also load secondary audio or closed caption files to check sync.
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Compare Alternate Media Pro
Compare Alternate Media lets you open additional media files to compare with your primary media file. Up to
sixteen alternate media files can be opened. Once opened, all of the files are listed on the View > Alternate Media
File menu where they can be shown in Full View, Split View or Difference View.
View Great for checking your multiple
adaptive bitrate files in ABR workflows or easy comparison of multiformat media.
Timeline Pro
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Use the Timeline feature to view the GOP structure of a video segment, highlighting the I, P, and B frames. You can
also see the data rate information associated with the video.
Switch also adds the ability to view Vertical Ancillary (VANC) data on an external monitor.
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DPP/AMWA Certified Player Pro
Switch Player lets you visually QC DPP files on the desktop, playing back the files as well as displaying DPP AS-11
MXF metadata.
Switch was among the first players to achieve DPP/AMWA certification as part of the DPP
(http://www.digitalproductionpartnership.co.uk/) (Digital Production Partnership)’s Compliance Program.
Fix It
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Rewrap files Plus Pro
Switch includes the ability to pass-through audio and video on export, or omit the video and export as an audio
only file.
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Streamlined creation of iTunes store packages Pro
Choose the iTunes export preset to create packages ready for distribution to the iTunes store. This creates an asset-
only iTunes package file (a .itmsp file) which includes the media content, secondary subtitle or audio files, chapter
information, and an XML file.
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WMV and WMA Playback Player Plus Pro
All levels of Switch are able to decode and play back Windows Media Video and Audio (WMV and WMA).
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Export to Windows Media Plus Pro
Switch Plus & Pro are able to convert and export other media formats into Windows Media files. These files will be
natively supported on Windows but will require 3rd party so ware to be compatible with Mac computers.
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QuickTime Video Codec Support and More Player Plus Pro
Switch supports all of the commonly used QuickTime video codecs, plus adds support for additional containers
and codecs not used in the QuickTime media framework.
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Captioning and Subtitles Plus Pro
Full caption and subtitle support for all professional video formats.
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AJA and Blackmagic Support Pro
Switch is able to play back all supported content through AJA and Blackmagic playback cards to external displays
and monitoring equipment.
Switch 4 is a free upgrade (/switch/upgrade.htm) for Switch v2 and v3 customers who have
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Improved Performance
Telestream continues to refine and improve our playback and indexing performance within Switch. Particular
attention was given to the performance of caption decoding and making sure we are making efficient use of file
system reads and writes, as well as only decoding the data that is actually needed.
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Team Collaboration
New collaboration feature allows users to create and view flags on the timeline that contain comments, errors,
or feedback. Share these flags between team members using a sidecar flags file to allow collaboration to occur
without making any changes to the video. Simple to understand formatting of the flags document allows for
automation systems to be able to create reports that can be reviewed and visualized on the timeline!
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Play and inspect
Multiformat media player with deep video and audio inspection capabilities. Play back your Windows Media
content on your Mac and convert it to MP4 to make it compatible with your devices.
Switch Plus
$199*
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