Cleaner 6.5 for Macintosh and Cleaner XL 1.5 for Windows will allow producers to create high-quality video output regardless of delivery format.  The Autodesk Cleaner family of products provides an all-in-one media mastering solution. From a single application, Cleaner and Cleaner XL optimize the conversion of media from a variety of input formats to a variety of delivery formats giving users control of the artistic and technical choices needed to produce the best quality video for the Web, CD-ROM, DVD, mobile devices and more.

New Cleaner features include:

New output formats:

Flash video support (.flv and .swf)  with On2 Flix Exporter

DivX Pro encoder

DivX 5.2 for Cleaner XL 1.5 for Windows

DivX 6.0 for Cleaner 6.5 for Macintosh

Updated codecs:

Updated Kinoma version 3 exporter

H.264 encoding through QuickTime 7 and support for Real 10.

Cleaner XL only new features:

Support for Autodesk Backburner

Command line script support for pipeline automation

New Input formats:

DPX, Cineon, OpenEXR

Wiretap support on input

Other enhancements for Cleaner XL 1.5 include the addition of 4:2:2 and two pass encoding for MPEG-2 

Cleaner 6.5 for Macintosh, adds many of the new codecs supported in Cleaner XL 1.5 in addition to Apple QuickTime 7.

“Our Cleaner software products truly close the loop in facilitating a start-to-finish workflow standardized on Autodesk Media & Entertainment solutions,” said Bill Roberts, Director of Product Development, Autodesk Media and Entertainment.  “Autodesk Cleaner software resides on the desktop of one or more systems at almost all of our client sites whether it’s being used as a core application for DVD production, or to streamline automation of review-and-approval processes.”

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