Discreet ships Cleaner 6 for Mac

Building upon the benchmark feature sets of Discreet's cleaner product line, cleaner 6 software sets the standard for creating high-quality encoding for new and popular digital formats including Apple's QuickTime(R), RealMedia(TM), Windows Media(TM), and Kinoma(TM), the latest downloadable video format for handheld PDAs. 150 high-quality presets enable editors to encode video with a single step, and more than 50 professional filters and correction tools provide the power to fine-tune digital video to the highest possible quality.

Recognized as Macworld's "Best of Show" at its recent unveiling, cleaner 6 software includes the following new and improved features: support for MPEG-4 and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio compression through Apple's QuickTime 6; new 2-pass variable bit rate (VBR) encoding for MPEG-2 lets users create high-quality video for DVD; new Watch Folders provide editors the option to encode work directly from their non-linear editing tool from their desktop or across a network; optimization for the G4 Velocity Engine and improved dual processor support and drag-and-drop encoding allow editors to get work done quickly and efficiently.

A post from the Cleaner discussion group suggested that while in the past, PC and Mac versions of the software were released simultaneously, from now on the versions will be released separately. The post went on to say that the Windows version was still under development.

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