— The founder
Michael
Wright.
Founder of TRNSCODE. Builds the master, the workers, the verification pipeline and this site. Answers the support inbox personally — on Studio Plus, over Slack with a three-hour SLA.
You are about to point NDA footage at software from a company you have never heard of. Fair. Here is who builds it, why it exists, and how to reach an actual human.
Founder of TRNSCODE. Builds the master, the workers, the verification pipeline and this site. Answers the support inbox personally — on Studio Plus, over Slack with a three-hour SLA.
Apple used to ship a distributed encoder called Qmaster. If you ran a post room in that era you remember what it felt like: every Mac in the building rendering as one machine. Then it was folded into a single-box Compressor and quietly discontinued — and the industry's answer since has been the cloud. Upload your footage, pay by the minute, wait for the download.
That answer never sat right with me. Post facilities already own rooms full of fast machines that sit dark half the day. The footage is already on the SAN, under NDA, behind a firewall it should never cross. Encoding is the most parallel job in the building. What was missing wasn't hardware — it was the coordinator.
TRNSCODE is that coordinator: a master service and a worker fleet that turn machines you already own into the farm you were told to rent. Nothing uploads. Nothing meters. Deliverables ship with verification evidence instead of hope. The fastest encode pipelines used to belong to whoever could afford them — I built TRNSCODE to end that.
TRNSCODE launched in 2026 — coverage collects here as it lands.
Writing about distributed encoding, post-production infrastructure, or the economics of the per-minute meter? We will put you in front of the product and the numbers: info@trnscode.com.
info@trnscode.com — sales questions, licensing, anything. Read by the founder, not a queue.
Email support on every paid tier, community support on Solo — and on Studio Plus, a shared Slack channel with a 3-hour response SLA.
founder@trnscode.com — for the questions you would rather ask a person: security posture, roadmap, whether TRNSCODE fits your room.
Create a free account — Solo is free forever on one machine — or request a guided look and we will walk your pipeline through it.
Install the master, join a worker, submit a job. Self-hosted and free to run on hardware you already own.