Switch

Multiformat video player & encoder with inspection

and correction for Mac & PC
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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 an affordable so ware solution for professional media Quality Control.
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Everything you need in one application

Affordable 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 an
affordable so ware solution for professional media Quality Control.

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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 so ware player with full support for CEA-708 caption
decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support. See MacCaption
(/captioning/overview.htm)/CaptionMaker (/captioning/overview.htm) 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
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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.

Powerful, professional production features

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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,
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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!
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Play It

Plays any file format professionals care about

Trust Switch for frame-accurate playback of all your professional media files, including embedded captions and
subtitles.

Multi-format playback support includes MXF, IMF, GXF, MPEG-2 Program Streams and Transport Streams, and
formats such as MOV, MP4, WMV, and more!

Switch can also play HEVC and 4K files, DNxHD, and JPEG2000 (requires Switch Plus or Pro).

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All the playback controls you expect
Switch has all the playback control features you’d expect in a professional player such as JKL navigation, fast
forward and rewind, slow motion, as well as single-frame forward and back.

“Jump To” allows you to jump to a specific timecode, frame or time in your video.

Full caption support   Plus    Pro

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Switch will play back embedded CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions, as well SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT captions)
and WebVTT, SRT and STL subtitle files. Switch is the only so ware player with full support for CEA-708 caption
decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support.

Switch will also decode captions from virtually all wrappers and formats, so you can verify captions within your
MXF or Transport Stream file.

Check It

Inspect all the properties of your media file

Check video and audio properties such as audio channels, speaker labels, aspect ratio, clean aperture, bitrate,
frame rate, metadata, encoding formats and more.

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Add secondary files
You can also load secondary audio or closed caption files to check sync.

Audio Meters   Plus    Pro

Use the Audio Meters to solo or mute audio channels, and inspect true peaks and momentarily loudness values.
Switch Pro adds a loudness panel that calculates gated (BS.1770-3) or ungated (BS.1770-2) loudness levels.

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Compare Alternate Media   Pro
Compare Alternate Media lets you open additional media files to compare with your primary media file. Up to
sixteen alternate media files can be opened. Once opened, all of the files are listed on the View > Alternate Media
File menu where they can be shown in Full View, Split View or Difference View.
View Great for checking your multiple
adaptive bitrate files in ABR workflows or easy comparison of multiformat media.

Timeline   Pro
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Use the Timeline feature to view the GOP structure of a video segment, highlighting the I, P, and B frames. You can
also see the data rate information associated with the video.

Preview to external monitors   Pro

Preview your files on a broadcast monitor or other devices. Switch Pro supports HDMI/SDI hardware output via AJA
or Blackmagic Design devices for preview and quality check. Switch supports the Blackmagic Design SDK, and AJA
Kona 4, Kona 3G, T-TAP, Io 4K, and Io XT.

Switch also adds the ability to view Vertical Ancillary (VANC) data on an external monitor.

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DPP/AMWA Certified Player   Pro
Switch Player lets you visually QC DPP files on the desktop, playing back the files as well as displaying DPP AS-11
MXF metadata.
Switch was among the first players to achieve DPP/AMWA certification as part of the DPP
(http://www.digitalproductionpartnership.co.uk/) (Digital Production Partnership)’s Compliance Program.

Enough information but not too much

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Switch displays all the relevant media information about your file in an intuitive, well organized interface. The
inspector is deep enough to be meaningful, without giving users so much information that it becomes
cumbersome.

Fix It

Make changes to your file and export   Plus    Pro

By switching to edit mode, users can modify settings and export a new file. Switch lets you specify a new file
format; a new video or audio codec; trim, scale or crop the video; add metadata (Pro only), and much more. Export
to Apple ProRes*, Windows Media, H264, MPEG-2 Video, MP4, MPEG-2 program streams and transport streams.
*ProRes export on Windows only possible in iTunes packages using Switch Pro.

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Rewrap files   Plus    Pro
Switch includes the ability to pass-through audio and video on export, or omit the video and export as an audio
only file.

Powerful audio editing   Plus    Pro

In the audio tab, you can split or join different audio tracks, rearrange audio tracks; change speaker assignments,
then change the audio format and sample rate. Switch also supports downmixing: take a file with eight channels
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More Publishing Options:   Plus    Pro

Export your video directly to Vimeo (https://www.vimeo.com/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/), or Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/) from within Switch. Select export, choose your destination, and Switch will publish
directly to your destination and save a local copy on your computer. Switch will create the appropriate files for
your destination, taking the guesswork out of encoding and submitting content.

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Streamlined creation of iTunes store packages   Pro
Choose the iTunes export preset to create packages ready for distribution to the iTunes store. This creates an asset-
only iTunes package file (a .itmsp file) which includes the media content, secondary subtitle or audio files, chapter
information, and an XML file.

Windows Media Support

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WMV and WMA Playback   Player    Plus    Pro
All levels of Switch are able to decode and play back Windows Media Video and Audio (WMV and WMA).

Convert Windows Media to MP4   Player    Plus    Pro

Switch Player is able to convert and export Windows Media content into an MP4 file using H.264 video and AAC
audio. Once converted, these files will be natively supported on all devices without the need for a 3rd party tool.

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Export to Windows Media   Plus    Pro
Switch Plus & Pro are able to convert and export other media formats into Windows Media files. These files will be
natively supported on Windows but will require 3rd party so ware to be compatible with Mac computers.

QuickTime & Switch

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QuickTime Video Codec Support and More   Player    Plus    Pro
Switch supports all of the commonly used QuickTime video codecs, plus adds support for additional containers
and codecs not used in the QuickTime media framework.

Media Inspection   Plus    Pro

Inspection of media properties, metadata, and encoding with greater detail than is possible in QuickTime Player X.

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Captioning and Subtitles   Plus    Pro
Full caption and subtitle support for all professional video formats.

MOV Metadata Inspection   Player    Plus    Pro

Switch can display the same QuickTime metadata found within MOV files as QuickTime Player, plus includes
greater detail and additional inspection capabilities.

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AJA and Blackmagic Support   Pro
Switch is able to play back all supported content through AJA and Blackmagic playback cards to external displays
and monitoring equipment.

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What's New in Switch 4

Switch 4 adds improved performance, growing file support, OP-47/OP-42 Teletext caption
playback and team collaboration.

Switch 4 is a free upgrade (/switch/upgrade.htm) for Switch v2 and v3 customers who have
Premium Support (/telestream-support/switch/premium.htm). For customers without Premium
Support, Switch 4 is a paid upgrade (/switch/upgrade.htm).

Version history (/switch/versions.htm)

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 Improved Performance
Telestream continues to refine and improve our playback and indexing performance within Switch.  Particular
attention was given to the performance of caption decoding and making sure we are making efficient use of file
system reads and writes, as well as only decoding the data that is actually needed.

Growing File Support

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 The ability to open files and play them back while they are still being written to disk enables live capture
workflows that include previewing the quality of live video captures, extracting portions of the already written
video for use in social media promotion of live productions, and the ability to confirm the media encoding of
content coming from live capture systems.

OP-47/OP-42 Teletext Captions    Plus    Pro

Switch is now capable of decoding and displaying OP-47 and OP-42 Teletext captions.  This support maintains
format parity with Telestream’s caption authoring tools MacCaption and CaptionMaker
(/captioning/overview.htm), and will enable users to play back their captions and view them to confirm
positioning, styling, and sync accuracy without the need for expensive hardware decoders.

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 Team Collaboration
New collaboration feature allows users to create and view flags on the timeline that contain comments, errors,
or feedback. Share these flags between team members using a sidecar flags file to allow collaboration to occur
without making any changes to the video. Simple to understand formatting of the flags document allows for
automation systems to be able to create reports that can be reviewed and visualized on the timeline!

The only tool you need to play, inspect, QC

and correct all your media

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Multiformat media player with deep video and audio inspection capabilities. Play back your Windows Media
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Perfect for video editors and post-production professionals. Adds more playback support
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publishing destinations, and single file transcoding into all supported output formats (including Windows
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