Simplifies publishing video to Microsoft Silverlight. The Expression Encoder 4 Pro application will allow you to encode high quality videos for devices and the web, capture your PC’s screen actions for training and demos, broadcast live events with IIS Smooth Streaming and provides Silverlight video experiences with customizable templates. Expression Encoder 4 Pro simplifies publishing video to Microsoft Silverlight.

Encoding for everyone
1. Expression-standard user experience
With a designer-friendly interface, video editors, web designers, and producers can easily use a professional encoding application. Using presets and the simplified profile panel, you can output a high-quality Silverlight experience without having to learn the science of video compression.

2. H.264
Encode content to the industry standard H.264 format using a range of profiles, including Baseline, Main, and High, for viewing on many devices, including Microsoft Zune and Apple iPod.

3. Multi-channel Audio
Import media with Dolby Digital multichannel audio, and encode for multichannel WMA Pro, or mixdown to stereo tracks.

4. Multi-track Audio
Import media with multiple audio tracks such as language versions and encode the selected tracks to final output standard.

5. A/B Compare
A/B Compare provides a quick preview of encoding output, including multiple bitrate IIS Smooth Streaming content, with a split-screen viewer to compare against the original. Play the comparison in real time to find the sweet spot when choosing between quality and file size.

6. Rich Metadata support
Add a wide range of standard metadata and customizable meta tags, including industry standards such as ISAN for asset tracking, search, and management.

7. Robust file import support
Add AVI, QuickTime, MPEG and additional media formats into encoding projects. Expression Encoder Pro also supports DirectShow decoder plug-ins enabling a broader range of media inputs.

8. High Performance
The VC-1 and H.264 codecs support both multiple cores and multiprocessor encoding. Version 4 shows dramatically improved encoding performance with appropriate hardware.

Personalized media
1. Image Adjustments
Crop, scale, de-interlace or remove pulldown to deliver the best possible compressed output.

2. Multiclip Editing
Remove unwanted sections, then add channel idents, adverts, watermarks or credits and drop in multiple clips to deliver the best content experience possible, all using a new frame accurate timeline.

3. Screen Capture
Capture all activity on your PC screen, including zoomed regions, with the screen recorder feature, optionally adding narration from webcam and microphone, then edit and publish in ultra-high quality using all the features of Expression Encoder Pro. Alternatively, the decoder can now be downloaded separately to allow screen captures to be viewed without installing Expression Encoder Pro.

4. Live Encoding
Stream media directly from professional camcorders and webcams. Multiple live sources can be mixed with file-based content in real time and published to servers running either IIS Media Services or Windows Media Services. Live media can now be delivered in the IIS Smooth Streaming format to ensure uninterrupted streaming to Silverlight and other clients. Live streams can utilize multi-cast functionality provided by the Windows Media Services. New statistics panels provide detailed insight into current encoding performance and connections.

5. Caption support
Expression Encoder Pro now allows you to reference your existing caption or subtitle files for playback in Silverlight. You can specify a number of file types (DFXP, SMI, SUB, SRT, LRC) that will be converted to a sidecar file that will maintain any styling in the original file and displays them in our new Silverlight templates.

6. Job Presets
Every aspect of a job can be stored in a preset through an improved interface and applied repeatedly to file after file to ensure the end user experience matches job after job. Supplied presets now include Apple iPad and Sony PSP. Windows Phone 7 series presets will be added after it launches.

7. Software Development Kit
Access all the powerful features of the advanced encoding engine, including the new Live Smooth Streaming and screen capture functionality, through a fully featured SDK for the ultimate in customized encoding.

8. Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Protect your IIS Smooth Streaming content by linking your output to a PlayReady DRM server with one simple checkbox and a link to a PlayReady server.

Fastest path to Silverlight
1. Expression Web integration
Drive the encoding and publish to the Web features directly from within Expression Web 4 for a fast way to get high quality video on your website.

2. Smooth Streaming with IIS7
Encode high-quality, multiple bitrate versions of your video ready for deployment to the Smooth Streaming feature of Internet Information Services 7 + Media Pack.

3. Intelligent Encoding
Cut and re-assemble VC-1 or H.264 clips, and Expression Encoder Pro will render only the stitch points of the video, saving encoding time and maintaining source quality.

4. DVD-style Navigation
Add chapters and bookmarks to media content, providing end users with choices for navigating through long-form content.

5. Silverlight Template Support
Publish web-ready media content in a complete Microsoft Silverlight 4 experience. Preview a media player skin, customizing the templates in Expression Blend or Visual Studio 2010 if required, set the player's initial state, then encode and publish a "ready to go" package.

6. Publishing Plug-ins
Write custom publishing plug-ins for Expression Encoder Pro to push encoded files or Silverlight media experiences to your web server or hosting service, Windows Azure or SharePoint.

Please Note: Expression Encoder Input Formats can not support MPEG-2, AVCHD and Dolby Digital, Expression Encoder Pro can support these formats. Output Formats can not support H.264 and AAC-LC. Pro version support these.

Limitations:
* Screen capture: 10 minute segments only
* Does not include support for IIS Smooth Streaming and H.264 encoding

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this video converter software.