Telestream Switch 5 Plus Mac + Premium Support for Switch Plus first year (mandatory)

Telestream Switch 5 Plus Mac + Premium Support for Switch Plus First Year - Mandatory is a professional multiformat media player, inspection tool, correction application, and single-file encoder for Mac. From the supplied source, it is designed for editors, post-production operators, and media-delivery teams that need to review professional files, inspect their technical properties, make routine adjustments, and export a new version from one application.

Switch Plus provides more than standard desktop playback. It adds professional codec support, embedded caption and subtitle review, detailed media inspection, audio metering, rewrapping, and transcoding tools. On Mac, it also provides licensed Windows Media playback and conversion for workflows that still receive or deliver WMV and WMA content. This package includes the mandatory first year of Premium Support for Switch Plus.

Highlights

• Professional media playback, inspection, correction, and encoding software for Mac
• Frame-accurate multiformat playback with professional transport controls
• Embedded caption and subtitle verification across broadcast and web formats
• Single-file transcoding and rewrapping into supported delivery formats
• Licensed Windows Media support on Mac for playback, conversion, and export
• First year of Premium Support included as a mandatory part of the package

Quick Specs & Uses

• Product type: Professional media player, inspector, correction tool, and single-file encoder
• Platform: Mac
• Edition: Telestream Switch 5 Plus
• Premium Support: First year included and mandatory
• Primary workflows: Media playback, file inspection, caption review, audio checking, correction, rewrapping, transcoding, and delivery
• Playback accuracy: Frame-accurate
• Playback controls: JKL navigation, fast forward, rewind, slow motion, single-frame forward, and single-frame reverse
• Jump To navigation: Timecode, frame number, or playback time
• Professional media formats: MXF, GXF, MPEG-2 Program Streams, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams
• Common media formats: MOV, MP4, WMV, and additional supported web formats
• Extended playback support: HEVC, 4K, DNxHD, and JPEG2000
• Caption formats: CEA-608, CEA-708, SCC, DVB, TTML, iTT, SMPTE-TT, WebVTT, SRT, and STL
• CEA-708 support: Advanced decoding functions, including Unicode character support
• Embedded caption verification: Supported within wrappers such as MXF and Transport Stream files
• Secondary file support: Additional audio and closed-caption files can be loaded for synchronization checks
• Video inspection: Codec, video essence, bitrate, frame rate, aspect ratio, clean aperture, and encoding format
• Audio inspection: Audio channels, speaker labels, speaker assignments, and level information
• Metadata inspection: General file metadata, DPP information, and detailed MOV metadata
• Audio meters: Channel monitoring with solo and mute controls
• Picture adjustment: Trim, crop, and scale
• Audio editing: Split, join, rearrange, and remap audio tracks
• Speaker assignment: Can be changed before export
• Audio format adjustment: Audio format and sample rate can be changed
• Downmixing: Supports workflows such as converting eight-channel audio to stereo
• Rewrapping: Audio and video pass-through export
• Audio-only export: Supported by omitting the video stream
• Export formats: Apple ProRes, Windows Media, H.264, MPEG-2 Video, MP4, MPEG-2 Program Streams, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams
• Windows Media playback on Mac: Licensed WMV and WMA decoding
• Windows Media conversion: WMV content can be converted to MP4 using H.264 video and AAC audio
• Windows Media export: Other supported media formats can be converted into Windows Media files
• QuickTime codec support: Common QuickTime codecs plus additional containers and codecs outside the QuickTime media framework
• MOV metadata inspection: QuickTime metadata display with additional technical detail

Why It Helps

Switch Plus is useful when a Mac-based media operator needs more information than a normal desktop player provides. Instead of confirming only that a file opens, the operator can inspect its codec, bitrate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio layout, speaker assignments, metadata, captions, and subtitles before the file is approved or converted.

Caption playback gives editors and delivery teams a direct way to verify that embedded or sidecar captions are present, correctly timed, and readable against the program. CEA-608 and CEA-708 captions can be checked alongside SCC, DVB, TTML, WebVTT, SRT, and STL files, including captions carried inside MXF and Transport Stream wrappers.

The correction tools cover many routine changes without requiring a full timeline-based editing system. A file can be trimmed, cropped, scaled, rewrapped, or transcoded, while audio tracks can be split, joined, rearranged, downmixed, or assigned to different speakers before export.

Licensed Windows Media support is especially practical on Mac systems. Operators can open WMV and WMA files directly, convert Windows Media content into MP4 using H.264 and AAC, or create Windows Media deliverables for downstream systems that still require that format.

System Characteristics

• Frame-level navigation for close picture, caption, and synchronization checks
• Organized technical inspection covering the properties needed during everyday media review
• Broadcast and web caption playback across embedded and sidecar formats
• Extended professional codec support including HEVC, DNxHD, JPEG2000, and 4K media
• Integrated picture correction through trim, crop, and scale controls
• Flexible audio preparation with track rearrangement, speaker reassignment, format changes, and downmixing
• Pass-through rewrapping when the existing audio and video streams do not need to be re-encoded
• Single-file transcoding into supported production, web, and delivery formats
• Licensed Windows Media workflow support on Mac for playback, MP4 conversion, and WMV export
• QuickTime and MOV inspection with broader technical detail than standard desktop playback

What’s In The Box

• 1 x Telestream Switch 5 Plus License for Mac
• 1 x First Year of Premium Support for Switch Plus

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