Telestream Switch 5 Pro (Upgrade from 5 Player) - Win

Telestream Switch 5 Pro (Upgrade from 5 Player) - Win is a professional media playback, inspection, and quality-control upgrade for broadcast, post-production, and media operations teams working on Windows. From the supplied source, this product upgrades an existing Switch 5 Player license to Switch 5 Pro, adding broader playback support, loudness monitoring, advanced metadata display, media comparison, external monitoring, and iTunes package export.

This is the kind of upgrade that makes sense when a basic media player is no longer enough for technical delivery work. Switch Pro gives the operator one place to review picture and audio, verify captions, inspect metadata, check loudness, make practical corrections, and export a replacement file without moving between several separate applications.

Highlights

• Professional broadcast and media QC upgrade for Windows workflows
• Upgrade from Switch 5 Player to Switch 5 Pro
• Loudness monitoring, advanced metadata, and media comparison
• ProRes RAW and IMF/DCP package playback
• Mandatory first-year Telestream Premium Support for Switch Pro

Quick Specs & Uses

• Product type: Professional media player, inspector, QC, correction, and transcoding software
• Platform: Windows
• License type: Upgrade from Telestream Switch 5 Player to Switch 5 Pro
• Support requirement: Must be purchased with Telestream Premium Support for Switch Pro for the first year
• Primary workflows: Broadcast QC, post-production review, file inspection, correction, transcoding, and delivery
• Playback support: Web and professional media formats
• Frame-accurate playback: Supported
• External preview: HDMI / SDI output support
• Audio monitoring: Professional audio meters with loudness monitoring
• Media comparison: Multiple files can be compared in one window
• Metadata inspection: DPP metadata, bitrate, video essence, codec, audio channels, speaker assignments, and loudness levels
• Timeline inspection: Displays video GOP structure
• Caption playback: CEA-608 and CEA-708
• Caption and subtitle formats: SCC, DVB, TTML, iTT, SMPTE-TT, WebVTT, SRT, and STL
• CEA-708 decoding: Supports advanced 708-only features, including Unicode characters
• IMF / DCP support: Playback of simple and complex packages from a CPL file
• ProRes RAW support: Playback supported in Switch Pro
• Windows Media output: Convert supported media into Windows Media files
• Media correction tools: Trim, scale, crop, rearrange audio tracks, and change speaker assignments
• Output processing: Rewrap or encode corrected media
• Publishing support: Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook
• Additional export support: iTunes package export
• Windows playback acceleration: NVIDIA Quick Sync support
• Reduced Frame Decoding: Designed for smoother 4K / UHD playback on lower-powered systems

Why It Helps

This upgrade is useful when Switch Player already handles basic playback, but the workflow now needs proper QC tools for broadcast or professional delivery. Loudness monitoring, deeper metadata inspection, media comparison, and external preview give the operator more confidence before a file is approved or passed downstream.

Caption verification is especially useful during final checks. Switch Pro can play CEA-608 and CEA-708 captions along with several common subtitle and caption formats, so timing, text, and presentation can be reviewed directly against the program image.

The correction tools also cover the small changes that often appear late in a delivery job. Media can be trimmed, scaled, cropped, rewrapped, encoded, or adjusted for audio track order and speaker assignment, then exported again without rebuilding the entire program in a full editing system.

System Characteristics

• Frame-accurate playback for professional media inspection and QC
• Advanced metadata view for codec, essence, bitrate, audio, DPP, and loudness information
• Caption and subtitle verification across broadcast and web delivery formats
• Compare Media function for reviewing multiple versions and ABR outputs
• Professional loudness monitoring with detailed audio metering
• External video preview through supported HDMI / SDI output
• IMF / DCP package playback with automatic asset assembly from the CPL
• ProRes RAW playback for supported professional media workflows
• Reduced Frame Decoding for improved 4K / UHD playback performance
• NVIDIA Quick Sync support for enhanced playback performance on Windows

What’s In The Box

• 1 x Telestream Switch 5 Pro Upgrade from Switch 5 Player for Windows

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