EditShare Ships New Shared Storage and Collaborative Editing Product Releases; Strengthens Asset Management across Broadcast and Post-production Product Lines

Boston, MA (PRWEB) August 18, 2011

EditShare?, the technology leader in cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, today announced the availability of EditShare Flow version 2.1 as well as new updates for EditShare XStream and Energy version 6, and Geevs version 5. EditShare purpose-built solutions power a wide-range of production workflows, including reality TV, episodics, news production, live events, education, sports, feature films, and more. The company?s systems have been used to create everything from entertainment blockbusters, such as The King?s Speech, to global events like the Winter Olympics.

The newly revved product line-up enhances media sharing and metadata management across the board, providing workflow continuity between broadcast and post-production systems from content acquisition to playout. ?This new round of development is a quantum leap forward in metadata management. Our systems preserve metadata details from the moment media is created, maintaining and adding information as content travels through the workflow ? from acquisition and production, to playout and archive. This type of metadata management is critical for just about any production where multiple systems and collaborators are involved,? said Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare.

Existing EditShare customers with a valid maintenance agreement receive the new releases free of charge.

ABOUT NEW EDITSHARE TECHNOLOGY RELEASES

EditShare Flow V2.1 ? Production Asset Management

Flow offers comprehensive media management capabilities for ingesting and logging clips and tracking assets across the production chain. Advanced features such as Multichannel Ingest, Edit-While-Capture, and Bandwidth-Controlled File-Based Ingest add a level of control over productions that set Flow apart from its peers. Rapid production tools like Flow Logger and Flow Projects and Bins enable users to work quickly and efficiently and begin the pre-editing process during ingest. EditShare Universal File Technology gives users the space efficiency and convenience of single-format editing without sacrificing metadata tracking across the workflow.

New Flow Features 2.1 capabilities

?Enhanced preservation of metadata from P2 and XDCAM devices

?Improved metadata indexing and search capabilities offer extensive criteria and filter options

?Support for ProRes? within the asset manager

?Support for AVC-Intra (SDI and File Ingest)

?Advanced drag-and-drop capabilities; drag text from a file (i.e. clip names) into Flow Browse search tab; export lists, sequences, queues; drag-and-drop clips and log entry markers into preview window

?Restoring offline clips directly from a sequence

?More logging options, including the option for single capture or ganged capture

EditShare XStream and Energy Series V6.0.5 - Shared Production Storage

EditShare's best-in-class storage infrastructure combines blazingly high performance and clever workflow-engineered features, such as Avid? and Final Cut Pro? (FCP) project sharing, to optimize collaboration for post-production, Digital Intermediate and broadcast production workflows. Fully integrated with EditShare Flow, Lightworks, Geevs and Ark, and EditShare XStream and Energy storage solutions scale to petabytes, outperforming comparable solutions at an unbeatable price point.

New EditShare 6.0.5 shared storage updates

?XStream Solid State Drives; performance benchmarked at 2.6GB per second

?6Gb/s performance for all drives

?Avid-Style Media Spaces for Mac?-based systems

?Improved Project Sharing for Final Cut Pro Users offers lockable Project Space, in which all files in a project are read-only

Geevs V5.1.2 ? Broadcast Ingest and Playout

Known as the industry workhorse for broadcast playout, Geevs boasts a sleek new user interface and a dynamic new sports application with multi-channel, synchronized recording and playback for up to 16 cameras, including instant playout and slow-motion replay. In addition to supporting the full range of broadcast codecs, including AVC-Intra, Geevs supports widely-used post-production formats, Avid DNxHD and ProRes. The new codec support optimizes production workflows, with seamless integration for Avid and Final Cut Pro editing workgroups, enhancing media migration from production storage to the Geevs playout platform.

Geevs 5.1.2 Capabilities and Benefits

?Unmatched codec support - Avid DNxHD, ProRes, AVC-Intra, XDCAM HD, DVCPRO HD, MPEG 2 HD and more

?Redundant Recording with Failover

?Instant individual clip backup to Ark after a capture

?Advanced Multi-cam Studio workflow with Avid and FCP sequence creation on the fly from Vision Mixers

?MOS integration with Octopus and Avid iNews Newsroom Computer Systems

?Edit-While-Capture support

?Free XML API

EditShare will showcase the newly updated Complete Collaboration product line at IBC 2011 on stand 7.C21. For more information or to book a press appointment, please contact Janice Dolan at: janice@zazilmediagroup.com.

About EditShare LLC

EditShare LLC is the pioneer of a new category of collaborative editing solutions designed for digital media workgroups and production companies. The EditShare system fuels the collaborative creative process for digital media artists by delivering high quality high performance and cost effective networked collaborative editing solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.editshare.com.

?2011 EditShare LLC. All rights reserved. EditShare? is a registered trademark of EditShare LLC. All other trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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Envivio Launches Industry?s First Converged Software-Based Platform for Broadcast and Multi-Screen Encoding, Transcoding and Packaging

Amsterdam (PRWEB UK) 9 September 2011

Envivio, a leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, today introduced version 3.0 firmware for 4Caster? C4, its flagship multi-profile encoding/transcoding solution. 4Caster C4 is the industry?s first and only platform to support a broad range of functions?including encoding, transcoding, packaging, encryption and publishing?in a single system that delivers broadcast-quality TV, HTTP adaptive streaming and 3GPP mobile video. Version 3.0 also adds support for MPEG-2 encoding and IP statistical multiplexing of H.264 and MPEG-2 video streams for cable and satellite broadcast services.

?Video networks today need to be built to deliver TV without Boundaries? to both the traditional television set and the growing variety of mobile and Internet-connected devices, creating complex challenges for network and content owners to meet consumer expectations for a high quality of experience,? said Julien Sign?s, Envivio?s president and CEO. ?With its new firmware upgrade, 4Caster C4 is an even more powerful encoding platform optimized to support today?s services and also accommodate the constantly growing range of devices.?

The new firmware adds several features that are designed to enhance bandwidth efficiency, improve video quality, reduce costs and improve density:

IP Statmux: Integrated statistical multiplexing eliminates points of failure since an external multiplexer is not required. Bandwidth efficiency for variable bit-rate applications in satellite direct-to-home (DTH) or cable networks can be improved by up to 50%.
MPEG-2 Support: The addition of MPEG-2 encoding enables service providers to support legacy broadcast services in addition to multi-screen. Operators can improve video quality thanks to Envivio?s software-based compression architecture that avoids the chipset limitations inherent in hardware-based encoders.
Common Encoding: By encoding once and then converting to specific output formats, efficiency and density are significantly improved compared to prior architectures requiring a separate broadcast and multi-screen headend infrastructure. With the 3.0 software deployed on the 4Caster C4 Gen III hardware platform, Envivio can achieve higher density and significantly lower operating cost per channel than other solutions.
Foresight? Advanced Pre-Processing: Envivio has made further improvements to its proprietary codec with the addition of the new Foresight? algorithm, which improves quality and compression efficiency by analyzing the structure and complexity of H.264 video sources to optimize transcoding.
Video Quality Monitoring: The new video quality monitoring feature of 4Caster C4 3.0 internally monitors ingest and output streams and provides an objective video quality score for all resolutions and all bit rates. This allows the operator to easily monitor the quality of service without having to deploy separate and costly quality control equipment.
Image Insertion: Emergency alert systems, blackout control, channel branding and advertisement overlays can be supported directly from the encoder, eliminating the need to convert to baseband and utilize additional third-party equipment.

Envivio is showcasing this architecture at IBC, stand 1.D73. Version 3.0 firmware is available immediately for existing 4Caster C4 Gen III and 4Caster C4? installations. For information on upgrading to the latest release, please contact your Envivio sales representative or Envivio Support. Contact information and product details can be found online at http://www.Envivio.com.

About Envivio

Envivio is a leader in solutions for multi-screen video-over-IP delivery. We design our solutions to remove the boundaries of traditional television and make the world?s video content universally enjoyable by all viewers, on any device, across any network, at any time. Now in its second decade of developing market-leading video convergence solutions, Envivio has amassed dozens of patents, pioneered video-over-IP methods, and led in the deployment of emerging standards and new technologies. Envivio?s customers include global tier-1 service providers, including eight of the top 10 mobile operators, seven of the top 10 broadband providers and three of the top four cable operators. Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and has offices worldwide including France, England, China, Singapore and Japan.

Envivio is a registered trademark and 4Caster, Envivio Genesis and TV without Boundaries are trademarks of Envivio, Inc. All trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of their respective companies.

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