Spin Digital
File Transcoder
Professional HEVC and VVC softwaretranscoder enabling ultra-high-quality
video with the highest compression
level. Spin Enc File is tailored to offline
media workflows for broadcast, VoD,and creative studios.

Product Highlights
Fast offline software transcoder
Significantly higher compression efficiency than HEVC
hardware encoders
Significantly higher performance than competing
HEVC and VVC software encoders
Enables WCG and HDR with up 12-bit video
Support for extended color formats: 4:2:2, 4:4:4, RGB
Perceptually optimized encoding mode
Versatile high-precision pre-processing filters
Next Generation Audio (NGA): MPEG-H Audio
Plugins for FFmpeg and DaVinci Resolve StudioSPIN ENC FILE
Complete application for fast offline transcoding:
Mezzanine file decoding
High-precision pre-processing filters
HEVC and VVC video encoding
AAC and MPEG-H Audio encoding
Muxing and export to the most popular container formats

USE CASES
Master file export for post-production and broadcast workflows:
Transcoding plugin for Davinci Resolve Studio and FFmpeg
HEVC, 4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4/RGB, up to 12-bit
Mezzanine-to-distribution 4K/8K-UHD transcoding with NGA:
High-performance, broadcast-quality file encoding
HEVC/VVC, 4:2:0, 10-bit
MPEG-H Audio
Adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming over HTTP for VoD:
Closed GOP coding: HEVC, VVC
Open GOP coding: VVC
HLS, DASH
High-performance cloud encoding:Support for running on virtual instances in the cloud
Immersive VR encoding:180-/360-degree video up to 16K with 3D audio
Conversion between common spherical projection formats

FILE VVC ENCODER
Support for the VVC standard: Main 10 profile
Resolutions (pixels): 1920x1080, 3840x2160, 7680x4320, custom
Frame rates (fps): 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60, 100, 119.88, 120
Color format: 4:2:0
Bit depths: 8-, 10-bit
Color spaces: BT.601, BT.709, DCI-P3, BT.2020
HDR support: ST2084 transfer function (PQ), ST2086 HDR metadata, HLG
Coding configurations:Intra-only, random-access, low-delay, chunk-based
Hierarchical GOP sizes: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 frames
Presets: slower, slow, balanced, fast, faster
Configurable HRD buffer
Perceptual encoding mode
Rate control:
Broadcast-level CBRConstrained VBRConstant QP
Highly optimized for recent CPUs:
SIMD processing: SSE4.1, AVX2, AVX-512, VNNI
Scalable multithreading: wavefront, frame parallelism, pipelining
Memory optimizations

FILE HEVC ENCODER
Support for the HEVC standard:
Main and Main 10 profiles
Range Extensions (HEVCv2) profiles
ARIB STD-B32 version 3.9 (8K with 4 slices)
Resolutions (pixels): 1920x1080, 3840x2160, 7680x4320, custom
Frame rates (fps): 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60, 100, 119.88, 120
Color formats: 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4, RGB
Bit depths: 8-, 10-bit, 12-bit
Color spaces: BT.601, BT.709, DCI-P3, BT.2020
HDR support: ST2084 transfer function (PQ), ST2086 HDR metadata, HLG
Coding configurations:Intra-only, random-access, low-delay, chunk-based
Hierarchical GOP sizes: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 frames
Presets: slower, slow, balanced, fast, faster
Configurable HRD buffer
Perceptual encoding mode
Rate control:
Broadcast-level CBRConstrained VBRConstant QP
Highly optimized for recent CPUs:
SIMD processing: SSE4.1, AVX2, AVX512, VVNI
Scalable multithreading: wavefront, frame parallelism, pipelining
Memory optimizations

HIGH-PRECISION VIDEO PRE-PROCESSING FILTERS
Video conversion filters:
Format conversion: chroma formats, bit depths, pixel layouts
Resolution scaling: nearest, bilinear, bicubic, lanczos
Color conversion: RGB/YUV, color space, SDR/HDR, custom LUT conversions
Cropping, padding
Orientation: flip, rotate, mirror
Geometry conversion: equirectangular, cubemap, cylinder, viewport extraction
Filter chain:
Filters can be used individually or combined for complex conversions
Automatic filter chain generation based on desired target format
Highly optimized for CPUs: memory locality, SIMD, multithreading

AUDIO CODING
Codecs: AAC, MPEG-H Audio
Channel formats:
AAC: 2.0, 5.1, 7.1, 22.2
MPEG-H Audio: baseline profile up to level 4

INPUT FORMATS
YUV, DPX, TIFF, PNG, DNxHD, CineForm, JPEG2000, HEVC, AVC

OUTPUT FORMATS
HEVC: MP4, MPEG2-TS, MKV, HLS, DASHVVC: MP4, MPEG2-TS, HLS, DASHCOMPRESSION AND PERFORMANCE FOR 8K TRANSCODING
Key performance indicators:
Significantly higher compression efficiency than HEVC hardware encoders
Significantly higher performance than other HEVC and VVC software encoders
Video file size for the same quality (PSNR) relative to Spin Enc File HEVC (100%)

BetterAverage transcoding speed in frames per second (FPS) at 50 Mbps on a 64-core workstation

BetterTEST SETUP
Input format: HEVC, 8K, 4:4:4, 12-bit
Output format: HEVC/VVC, 8K, 4:2:0, 10-bit
Framework

Decoder

Encoder - preset

Spin SDKSpin Dec HEVC

Spin Enc HEVC - balanced

SpinFFmpeg*Spin Dec HEVC

Spin Enc HEVC/VVC - balanced

FFmpeg

NVDEC-HEVC

NVENC-HEVC v12.0.16 - p1_hq, p7_hq

FFmpegopenHEVC

x265 v3.5 - medium

FFmpegopenHEVC

VVenC v1.8.0 - faster* FFmpeg with Spin Digital’s decoding, filtering, and encoding modules
Encoding settings: rate control, 1-second intra period, long GOP
Encoding system:
CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (64 cores)
GPU: GeForce RTX 3070 (for NVDEC and NVENC)PLATFORM REQUIREMENTS FOR FAST 8K TRANSCODING
Processor:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (64 cores), or
2x Intel Xeon Gold 6330 (2x28 cores)
RAM: 64 GB
OS:
Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 (64-bit), or
RedHat 8/9 (64-bit)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Processor:64-bit x86 CPU
With support for SSE4.1 (minimum), AVX2 (recommended)
RAM: 8 GB
OS:Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Linux: Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 (64-bit), or RedHat 8/9 (64-bit)

TRANSCODER PACKAGE
SpinFFmpeg - FFmpeg with Spin Digital’s optimized modules:
HEVC decoder
Video pre-processing filters
HEVC and VVC encoders
MPEG-H Audio encoder
Transcoding plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio: HEVC encoder

Spin Digital Video Technologies GmbH | www.spin-digital.com | info@spin-digital.com | June 2023