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Title: Autodesk Cleaner 6.5 User’s Guide

Document Version: 1

Part Number: 64006-050000-5000A

Date: November 1, 2005

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Contents

1Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What’s New in Cleaner 6.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Activating Cleaner 6.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Streaming Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Progressive Streaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Real-Time Streaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Standard and Streaming Servers . . . . . . . . . 5

Bandwidth Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Buffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Streaming Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Typical Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Capturing Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Digital Video Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Analog Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Choosing a Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Shooting Video for Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Shooting Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3Batches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The Batch Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Project Modification Icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Batch Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Adding Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Importing from Audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Adding Numbered Stills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Replacing a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Removing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Assigning Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

File Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Processing Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Skipping Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Selecting Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Default Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Custom Destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Customizing Output File Names. . . . . . . . 27

Processing a Batch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Pausing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Stopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Changing and Restarting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Clearing Project Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Getting Project Status Details . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Batch Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

The Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The Movie Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

The Source File Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

The Data Rate Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

The Settings, Modifiers, and EventStream

Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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Manual Cropping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Numeric Cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Preventing Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Trimming Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Manually Setting In/Out Points. . . . . . . . . 42

Numerically Setting In/Out Points . . . . . . 43

The Cleaner Time System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Go to Frame/Go to Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Enhanced Movie Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Using Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Choosing a Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Organizing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Creating a Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Modifying Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Assigning a Setting to a Project . . . . . . . . . 55

Assigning a Setting to Multiple Projects. . 55

Assigning Multiple Settings to Multiple

Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Settings Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Previewing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Sharing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using Aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Protecting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Automating Setting Creation. . . . . . . . . . . 59

6Pre-processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

The Image Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Image Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

De-interlace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Shift Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Telecine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Blur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Sharpen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Adaptive Noise Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Static Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Watermark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

The Adjust Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Gamma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Black Restore and White Restore . . . . . . . 73

Hue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

QuickTime Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

The Audio Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using Audio Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Sample Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Data Rate (only for MP3, MPEG Layer 1,

MPEG Layer 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Speed vs. Quality (only for MP3) . . . . . . . 78

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Low Pass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

High Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Noise Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Noise Gate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Notch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Experimenting with Audio Filters. . . . . . . 84

Begin/End Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Video Fades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Audio Fades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

High Quality First/Last Frames . . . . . . . . . 86

End Frame URL Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

In Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Out Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

7Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Video Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Audio Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Still Image Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Animation and 3-D Formats . . . . . . . . . . . 88

AVI (Video for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )89

Required Components for AVI. . . . . . . . . 89

Creating AVI Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

DivX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

DV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Working with DV Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Creating DV Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Flash Video Formats (FLV, SWF) . . . . . . . . . . 93

Kinoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Video Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Audio Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Creating MP3 Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Choosing Encoding Parameters . . . . . . . . 95

MP3 and QuickTime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

MP3 Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

MPEG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

MPEG Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

MPEG Aspect Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Group of Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

MPEG Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

QuickTime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Preparing QuickTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

QuickTime Scalability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Required Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

QuickTime Version Compatibility . . . . . 104

QuickTime Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Audio-only Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

QuickTime Movie Suffix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

QuickTime Streaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Alternates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Creating Alternates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Organizing Alternates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Alternate Movie Fallbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Single Version Fallback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Putting QuickTime Online. . . . . . . . . . . . 124

QuickTime MIME Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Special QuickTime Options . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Real 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Real 10 Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Streaming Real 10 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Downloadable Real 10 Files . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Audio-Only Real 10 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Viewing Real 10 Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Putting Real 10 Files on a RealServer . . . 135

Windows Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Windows Media formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Windows Media codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Creating Windows Media Files . . . . . . . . 137

Downloadable Windows Media Files. . . 137

Uploading to a Windows Media Server . 138

Adding Downloadable Files to a Web Page.

139

8Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Output Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

The Format Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

QuickTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

MPEG-1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

MPEG-2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

AVI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Windows Media 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

DivX 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

JPEG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

PNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

PICT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

QuickTime Image (QTIF) . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

3G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

AIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

BMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

FLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Kinoma Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Hinted Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3). . . . . . . . . . 166

RealMedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

QuickTime TeXML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

AU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

WAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Wildform Flash Video (FLV, SWF) . . . . 171

DV Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

QuickTime Media Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Image Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

MPEG-4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Tracks Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Flatten Only Option (QuickTime) . . . . . 178

Track Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Other Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Encode Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Codec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Bit Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Spatial Quality and Temporal Quality Sliders

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Frame Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Keyframes or Insert Keyframes . . . . . . . . 182

Compare Uncompressed Frames . . . . . . 184

Video Data Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Compression Buffer Window (Windows

Media only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Video Quality (Windows Media only). . 189

Encoding Speed (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 only) .

190

Frames or Fields (MPEG-2 only) . . . . . . 190

Video Buffer Verifier (MPEG-1, MPEG-2

only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Group of Pictures (GOP) (MPEG-1, MPEG-

2 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

New GOP on Scene Change (MPEG-1,

MPEG-2 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Open GOPs (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 only) . 190

Chroma Format (MPEG-2 only). . . . . . . 191

Output Field Dominance (MPEG-2 only). .

191

Frame Rate versus Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Display Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Variations for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Processing Still Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Making Still Images from Movies . . . . . . 195

Enhancing Still Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Making Movies Out of Still Images. . . . . 196

Optimizing Stills for Encoding . . . . . . . . 196

Audio Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

AVI Audio Codecs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Audio Codecs . . 198

QuickTime Audio Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Sample Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Data Rate (only for MP3, MPEG Layer 1,

MPEG Layer 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Speed vs. Quality (MP3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Low/High Pass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Noise Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Noise Gate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Notch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Begin/End Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Video/Audio Fades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

High-Quality First/Last Frames . . . . . . . 202

End Frame URL Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

In/Out Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Metadata Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Summary Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Preview Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Dynamic Preview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

The Output Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

9EventStream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

EventStream Authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Adding EventStreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Adding Markers in Real Time . . . . . . . . . 215

Saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Exporting/Importing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Supported Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Playback Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Processing Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

10 Publishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Setting Streaming Server Paths . . . . . . . . . . . 226

QuickTime Streaming Server Preferences. .

226

RealServer Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Windows Media Server Preferences . . . . 228

StreamPublisher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Specifying the Destination for Streaming

Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

11 Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Preproduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Watch Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Context Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Improving Processing Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Upgrade Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Turning Off Video Display . . . . . . . . . . . 235

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Minimize Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Helpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Using Helpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Opening Source Movies with Helpers . . 236

Opening Output Movies with Helpers . . 236

Using AppleScripts with Helpers . . . . . . 236

Helpers and Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

QT Alternates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Server Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

12 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Common Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . . 241

Hardware Codecs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Image Quality Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Older Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Progressive-streaming Movies. . . . . . . . . 242

Real-Time-streaming Movies . . . . . . . . . 242

Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Before You Contact Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Glossary 247

Index 277

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Introduction

Welcome to Autodesk® Cleaner® 6.5 for Apple® Macintosh®, the industry standard for

professional video encoding.

This user’s guide provides all the information you need to process, author, and encode video

and audio for Web, CD, and DVD delivery. Cleaner 6.5 is designed to integrate seamlessly into

your video editing and multimedia production workflow, speeding up your encoding process

while outputting the highest quality content in all popular delivery formats.

What’s New in Cleaner 6.5

The following is a list of new features in Cleaner 6.5:

OS X 10.4 (Tiger) support — Cleaner runs under both OS X 10.3 (Panther) and 10.4 (Tiger).

QuickTime 7 — Support for QuickTime 7, including the H.264 codec.

Wildform Flash Video Encoder — You can encode to both FLV and SWF formats.

DivX — You can produce video files using the DivX® codec.

3GP — You can encode 3GP files for playback on mobile devices.

MPEG-2 enhancements — MPEG-2 encoding now includes 4:2:2 chroma and 2-pass variable

bitrate encoding.

Updates to the Kinoma Producer — The Kinoma® Producer now supports MPEG-4 video, and

can encode video for playback on the Sony™ PlayStation Portable.

Real 10 — Support for Real® 10, including RealVideo® and RealAudio®.

iPod — Support for iPod video using MPEG-4 encoding.

Chapter 1: Introduction2

Installation

System Requirements

• Apple Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G4 or faster processor (single or dual processor

supported). G5 processor recommended.

• Mac OS X version 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger).

• QuickTime 6.5 or higher.

• 128 MB of available application RAM. 256 MB recommended.

• Graphics card that supports 1024x768 resolution at 16-bit color (24-bit color recommended).

• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.

• 35 MB of available hard drive space.

To install:

1. Insert the Cleaner 6.5 CD-ROM into the drive.

2. Double-click the Install Cleaner 6.5 icon.

The Cleaner 6.5 installer appears.

3. Click Continue to move through each panel of the installer.

4. Click Quit to exit the installer.

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