ATI Video Converter
Get the right video to the right player - quickly
The new ATI Video Converter uses ATI Stream™ technology1 to quickly and easily convert your videos to play on today’s new breed of portable entertainment devices. The ATI Video Converter is a “transcoder,” a tool that converts digital video from one file format to another, enabling the same video clip to play on industry standard home DVD/DivX® players, PC’s or portable media devices such as the Apple® iPod®, Sony® portable gaming device and many others.
Did we mention how fast it is?
The ATI Video Converter transcodes up to 17 times faster2 than with the CPU alone, one hour of video can be converted to a portable player format in about 12 minutes.2 Combined with one of the recent ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 or ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series graphics card offerings, the ATI Video Converter helps deliver video conversion at up to twice the speed of competing solutions at just over half of the suggested retail price.3
Easily accessible through ATI Catalyst™ Control Center
The ATI Video Converter greatly simplifies the process of converting videos from one format to another. A wizard found within Catalyst Control Center enables even a novice user to quickly and easily transcode their videos. Simply select the input file format, the output format and quality level, and file location for the new transcoded video files—the ATI Video Converter does the rest.
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The ATI Video Converter accepts almost any video file format as a source, and outputs to many different file formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-4/DivX, WMV and H.264/AVC™4. MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC™4 benefit from ATI Stream™ acceleration with ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series GPUs.
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1 The ATI Video Converter is only supported on ATI Radeon™ 4600 and ATI Radeon™ 4800 Series GPUs.
2 The pre-release version of ATI Video Converter demonstrates that ATI Stream technology allows video conversion that is faster than ever before. ATI Video Converter using ATI Stream technology converted an HD MPEG2 video at 1920x1080 resolution @ 24fps running 3600 seconds to an MPEG4 video at 320x240 resolution at 24 fps in 3 hours 23 minutes, while iTunes 8.0.1 with WinQuickTimeMPEG2 pack converted the same source video to the same output specifications in 3 hours and 23 minutes, demonstrating a 17x speed up. System specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo QX9650 3.0 GHz processor, 6GB of Corsair CM2X1024-8500C5D 1066 MHz memory, Windows Vista Ultimate® 64-bit with Service Pack 1, ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 512MB. Performance of ATI Video Converter will vary based on system configuration, ATI Radeon product, source file and output settings used. Accelerated stream capabilities are dependent on enablement in individual software titles. Not all software is ATI Stream enabled, nor do all ATI Radeon graphics processors provide ATI Stream capabilities.
3 The combination of an ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 512MB graphics card (~$246) + ATI Video Converter using ATI Stream technology (free) compared to the combination of GeForce® GTX 280 graphics card (~$414) + Badaboom™ Media Converter 1.0 ($29.99) shows that an HD MPEG2 video at 1920x1080 resolution @ 29.97 fps, 19000 kb/s VBR and MPEG1 Layer2 48000HZ audio that runs 1 minute 31 seconds is converted to an AVC1-MPEG4 video at 1280x720 @ 29.97 fps, 7304 kbps with MPEG4 44100 Hz 160kb/s stereo audio on the AMD solution in 48 seconds, and is converted to an AVC1-MPEG4 video at 1280x720 resolution @ 29.97 fps, 7734kbps with MPEG4 48000Hz 62Kb/s stereo audio on the Nvidia/Badaboom solution in 113 seconds. Prices based on average Newegg.com pricing after mail-in rebates as of October 29, 2008. System specifications: AMD Phenom™ X4 9950 processor, MSI 790FX K9A2 Platinum motherboard, 2GB of Corsair CM2X1024-8500C5D 1066 MHz memory, Windows Vista Ultimate® 64-bit with Service Pack 1, Western Digital Raptor WD1500 hard drive, ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 512MB with ATI Catalyst™ version 8.9 and ATI Video Converter, or GeForce® GTX 280 with Badaboom™ Media Converter 1.0 and CUDA driver 178.08 INT. Performance will vary based on system configuration, ATI Radeon product, source file and output settings used.
4 H.264/AVC profile supported when using Apple iPod format.
