Cinema Craft Encoder or CCE is a video encoder for MPEG-1

MPEG-1

MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting possible.Today, MPEG-1 has become...

 and MPEG-2

MPEG-2

MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission...

. It is written in assembly

Assembly language

An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...

 and optimized with SIMD multimedia instructions of compatible x86 processors.

It is capable of single-pass and multi-pass Constant bitrate

Constant bitrate

Constant bitrate is a term used in telecommunications, relating to the quality of service. Compare with variable bitrate.When referring to codecs, constant bit rate encoding means that the rate at which a codec's output data should be consumed is constant...

 and Variable bitrate

Variable bitrate

Variable bitrate is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding. As opposed to constant bitrate , VBR files vary the amount of output data per time segment...

 encoding. CCE converts from AVI

Audio Video Interleave

Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback...

 and QuickTime

QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...

 to MPEG-2 video and mp2

MPEG-1 Audio Layer II

MPEG-1 Audio Layer II or MPEG-2 Audio Layer II is a lossy audio compression format defined by ISO/IEC 11172-3 alongside MPEG-1 Audio Layer I and MPEG-1 Audio Layer III...

 audio and can even take Avisynth

AviSynth

AviSynth is a frameserver program for Microsoft Windows developed by Ben Rudiak-Gould, Edwin van Eggelen, Klaus Post, Richard Berg, Ian Brabham and others. It is free software under GNU GPL license.-Scripting video editor:...

- Scripts as source files. DVD-compliant MPEG-2 video or custom MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video streams are supported as output formats. The program can be extended via a plugin which enables Adobe Premiere to export to CCE's supported output video formats.
CCE features both a GUI and a command line interface and can be used for batch processing. Furthermore, it is used in various video-transcoders for the encoding.

It comes in three versions: CCE basic for consumers, CCE SP for professional use, and CCE Pro, a hardware device consisting of a PC CCE SP and digitizing boards. CCE Basic was discontinued at the end of July 2009. CCE SP and CCE Pro encoders were also discontinued and replaced by newer products: CCE SP2 and CINEMA CRAFT Xtream Presto.

CCE is well known for its use as the de-facto standard in Scene DVD-R

DVD-R

DVD-R is a DVD recordable format. A DVD-R typically has a storage capacity of 4.71 GB. Pioneer has also developed an 8.5 GB dual layer version, DVD-R DL, which appeared on the market in 2005....

releases.