Telestream Switch 5 Pro (Upgrade From 5 Plus) - Mac
Telestream Switch 5 Pro (Upgrade from 5 Plus) - Mac
Telestream Switch 5 Pro A complete solution for Broadcast and Media QC professionals. Includes all of the features of Switch Plus and adds more playback support, loudness monitoring, advanced metadata display, compare media feature, preview to an external monitor, and iTunes package export.
Play, inspect, QC and correct all your media with Switch Switch lets you play a variety of web and professional media formats, inspect and adjust the properties of the file, and then export a new file. Designed for media professionals, Switch enables visual file inspection, single file transcoding and is a complete software solution for professional media Quality Control.
Everything you need in one application
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 a complete software solution for professional media Quality Control.
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 software player with full support for CEA-708 caption decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support. See MacCaption/CaptionMaker for caption creation.
Deep file inspection Switch gives you frame-accurate playback of all your media and lets you see detailed information about it in an intuitive, well-organized interface. See metadata (including DPP), bitrate, video essence and codec, audio channels, speaker assignments, and loudness levels. Also compare multiple files in a single window – great for ABR workflows.
Windows Media Support Enable playback and conversion of Windows Media content on your Mac! Switch is a fully licensed Windows Media playback tool for Mac and is able to convert Windows Media content into other formats compatible with your equipment. Switch Plus and Pro allow you to convert other media formats into Windows Media files for applications that require this format.
IMF/DCP Playback Switch Pro now supports the playback of simple and complex IMF/DCP assets. Just load your CPL file, and let Switch do the heavy lifting. Your content will be automatically stitched together and played back seamlessly.
Powerful, professional production features
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 view showing video GOP structure.
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!
What's New in Switch 5 Switch 5 adds improved performance, Reduced Frame Decoding, ProRes RAW playback (Pro), IMF/DCP Package playback (Pro) & more. Switch 5 is a free upgrade for Switch v4 customers who have Premium Support. For customers without Premium Support, Switch 5 is a paid upgrade.
Improved Performance All versions of Switch now natively support Metal on macOS and Nvidia QuickSync on Windows for enhanced playback performance.
Reduced Frame Decoding Decode and playback 4K/UHD media smoothly on lower-powered systems.
ProRes RAW Playback ProRes RAW brings the same great performance, quality, and ease of use to raw video that ProRes has brought to conventional video. The Apple ProRes codec family provides unparalleled and impressive image quality preservation.
IMF/DCP Package Playback Switch Pro now supports the playback of simple and complex IMF/DCP assets. Just load your CPL file, and let Switch do the heavy lifting. Your content will be automatically stitched together and played back seamlessly.
Specifications
Mac Minimum* System Requirements
Operating Systems
macOS Big Sur 11
macOS Catalina 10.15
CPU
All Macs made in 2014 and later that support macOS 10.15 and higher
2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo or faster
Any Core i3, i5, or i7
RAM
4 GB or more
Graphics
256 MB or more graphics memory
Display
1280 x 768 or larger
50 Hz or faster
*Note: Minimum specifications are the required hardware for playback of standard definition content. Playback of demanding content such as 4K, HEVC, and high frame rate video may require more powerful hardware. Try using the “Reduced scale decoding” option, which you can find in the Preferences menu.
Display Languages Supported
English
French
German
Japanese
Spanish
Playback Format Support
Containers:
AAC
AC31
AIFF
ASF1
AVC (AVC Elementary Stream)
AVI (OpenDML)
DV
GXF
HEVC2 (HEVC Elementary Stream)
IMF/DCP3
LXF
M1V (MPEG-1 Video Elementary Stream)
M2V (MPEG-2 Video Elementary Stream)
MOV
MP3 (MPEG Layer 1, 2, 3 Audio Elementary Stream)
MP4 (ISO Base Media Format)
MPG (MPEG-1 System Stream)
MPS (MPEG-2 Program Stream)
MTS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)
MXF (AS-114 with UK DPP metadata)
MXF (OP-1a; AS-02, AS-034, AS-114)
MXF (OP-1a Proxy)
MXF (OP-1b)
MXF (OP-Atom)
SCC5
WAV
Video Codecs (decode only):
Apple QuickTime Animation RLE6
Apple ProRes
Apple ProRes RAW3
DNxHD1
DNxHR1
DV 25
DVCPro 25
DVCPro 50
DVCPro 100
DVCPro HD
H.263
H.264
H.2651
JPEG
JPEG20001
MPEG-1
MPEG-27
MPEG-4
MPEG-4 Simple Studio Profile (SStP)
Uncompressed YUV
VP9
WMV
Audio Codecs (decode only):
AAC
AC31
G.711 aLaw
G.711 uLaw
G.726
Microsoft ADPCM
MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2, 3
PCM
WMA
Captions:
Extraction and playback:
CEA-608, CEA-708
DVB files
SCC5 files
SRT files
STL files
TTML/iTT/SMPTE-TT files
WebVTT (HTML5) files
Encode Format Support
Containers:
ASF
MOV
MPEG-2 TS/PS
MPEG-4
MXF (OP-1a, OP-Atom)
Video Codecs:
Apple ProRes
MPEG-2 Video
WMV
x264
Audio Codecs:
AAC
MPEG Layer 2
PCM
WMA
iTunes Package Export Creates an asset-only iTunes package file (an .itmsp file) which includes media content, secondary subtitle (.iTT or .scc files) or audio files, chapter information and an XML file. iTunes packages can only be created using the ProRes 422 HQ profile.
DPP/AMWA Certified Player Switch can visually QC DPP files on the desktop, playing back the files as well as displaying DPP AS-11 MXF metadata.