Reviews & Quotes
Episode 6 has been the easiest, fastest, and cleanest workflow for the Web that I have ever used.”
– David Hurd, P3 Update
Episode is extremely fast and versatile, bringing very high-end encoding power to almost any user.”
– Bruce Barrett, TV Technology
Setting up a cluster couldn’t be easier. With Episode’s simple clustering features, it’s effortless to maximize our horsepower when we need it. We’ve been waiting for a solution like this for our SAN; it will save us hours of time.”
– Brent Kirsten, Owner and Creative Director at digitalcore
We love Episode 6 and plan to deploy it in all nine of our locations. It is an incredibly feature-rich and robust program with a straight-forward user interface that even novice users can operate with very little training. Within 10 minutes of receiving the product, I had our watch folders delivering numerous different encodes: to our CDN for web playback, to our video playout servers for broadcast, and another straight to YouTube. From one watch folder I could push a single video to all of our various destinations.”
– Dylan Armajani, System Administrator at New York-based Plum TV
Product Reviews
Telestream brings x264 to Episode Encoders (April 22, 2012)
Lifelong Learning Magazine – "We tested Episode Pro during the production of the new TV series Travel Secrets Mexico. … This kind of toolset is always a dream for media producers in training departments."
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Examining Episode Pro 6 (August 2011)
Reviewer David Hurd writes: "I've found that Episode Pro 6 is an awesome tool that's easy to use and consistently delivers superb looking Web video."
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Telestream Episode 6 (April 5, 2011)
TV Technology – by Bruce Barrett - "Episode is extremely fast and versatile, bringing very high-end encoding power to almost any user."
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Episode 6 Product Review (November 2010)
Software Latest gives Episode 6 a 5/5 Star Rating. "Together with its support for the complete ProRes codec family, its performance, scalability through clustering, and flexibility, Episode 6 is definitely a good choice. The ease of use, coupled with the extensive features, and excellent quality encoding, makes this a must have for content creators working on web, mobile, DVD and HD content."
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My First Look at Episode 6 (October 2010)
Real World Video Compression – Compressionist Andy Beach reports on Episode 6 – "Episode 6 is a fairly major update to the user interface and adds a whole new notion called workflows."
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Episode 6 Audio Interview (October 2010)
Digital Production BuZZ – "Telestream is in the midst of acquiring new companies, releasing new software, and, in general, just shaking things up. Kevin Louden, product manager for Telestream, joins us to talk about their latest software release."
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Episode 6 Video Tour (September 2010)
Video compressionist Jan Ozer describes the new user interface as “brilliant” in his Episode 6 video tour
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Simple Encoding Recipes for the Web 2010 (September 2010)
A 43-page printable document designed to provide simple, easily-repeatable settings in recipe form. They will get you great results with minimal effort using Telestream Episode Pro V6.
Interviews
Telestream: Episode 6 presentation & demonstration (October 18, 2011)
Recorded live with Johan Skaneby at MacVideo Expo, London.
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Episode 6: King of the Encoders (Sepember 2011)
Rick Young interviews Kevin Louden at IBC2011.
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Episode 6 Audio Interview (September 23, 2010)
Digital Production BuZZ host Larry Jordan talks to Kevin Louden about Telestream’s new
Episode V6 media encoder software.
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YakYakYak (April 2010)
Johan Skaneby presents the new interface for Episode 6, and shows some of the great new features including One-Click Clustering and file sharing between clusters of Macs and PCs.
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Customer Stories
Episode Pro meets versatile encoding needs of Compression Group. Kenji Hayashi, Executive Producer of Compression Group, says: “The depth of control Episode allows us to achieve for each compression job we perform is unrivaled in the industry. The preview mode is the best I’ve ever seen for this type of application, and I’ve tried almost everything out there. Most importantly, though, it gives us the peace of mind that a job is done right the first time.”
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The Digital Media Group for a major US television network provides full television episodes, recaps of TV series and original content to the network's website and to mobile video providers, including Verizon V CAST, Cingular, SmartVideo, Helio, GoTV, etc. Because of varying requirements for each, approximately 600 files are delivered each day.
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