A system to perform automated conversion of video data includes a transcoder with a decoder processing video data for automatic video format detection and conversion of video data into uncompressed format; and an image scaler coupled to the setting controller to perform automatic video image size conversion based on horizontal and/or vertical scaling factors. The system also includes a video data pre-processor for compression of video data; a compression encoder to convert video data into compressed format; and a degradations and distortions meter (video quality analyzer) to process video data and data generated by said transcoder.