'Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition', and 'Instant Memory Cleaner'

Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition

Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition Beta 1 is an exciting new addition to the Windows Media tools family. It is a powerful tool for video professionals, optimized for the creation of high-quality offline encoding using Microsoft's implementation of the VC-1 video standard (WMV9). Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition Beta 1 provides the key features necessary to create next-generation video content and capitalize on the growing importance of scenarios around optical media and video-on-demand. With the final standardization of VC-1, "Studio Edition," will prove to be an invaluable tool for the offline encoding community. (Go to Downloads).

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Instant Memory Cleaner

Instant Memory Cleaner is a front-end for Microsoft's command line ClearMem tool, which forces pages out of physical memory and reduces the size of running processes' working sets to a minimum.

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