Tyler, Rogers Acquire AndTransfer, Expand Offerings of Established Dallas-based Film, Video Post-Production House

Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) September 16, 2011

AndTransfer (http://www.andtransfer.com), a nationally-renowned telecine boutique founded in Dallas in the 1970s and serving clients across the globe, has new owners, Brandon Tyler and Dylan Rogers.

Mr. Tyler, who is president and co-owner, and Mr. Rogers, co-owner, are both industry veterans. They acquired all the assets of the company from founder Neil Feldman, who is retiring. The transaction closed in August. Sales price was not disclosed.

Under the new leadership, AndTransfer will focus on transformational programming across all film and video platforms. The owners promise expansive technical capabilities, absolute attention to client service, and rededication to the highest standards, according to Mr. Tyler.

AndTransfer professionals on the team with Mr. Tyler and Mr. Rogers include Steve Franko, Kelly Riemenschneider, Terry Hall, and Russell Franklin, all of whom have been with the company for many years and have extensive experience in the industry.

?We want to expand and perfect what we do best,? said Mr. Tyler. ?In addition to our traditional capabilities, we will soon introduce some of the newest approaches on the horizon in commercial and long form color correction, archiving, restoration, transcoding and data distribution.?

?We?re products of the digital revolution,? said Mr. Rogers. ?We?ve had experience behind the camera, in technical suites, and at executive levels here and in California working for and with numerous recognized successful enterprises.?

Literally born into the cable TV industry---with a father and grandfather who are both cable TV operators--- Brandon Tyler spent early years experiencing the art and technical elements of video, film, TV, and cable with television production companies, as a graphics specialist for Cowboys Weekly for Fox Sports Net, and, under his own brand, as the producer and filmmaker for TCU football highlights and DVD projects. The 2011 fall season begins his second decade shooting the highlights and traveling with the team. He?s also worked as an independent videographer for a number of large corporations including ESPN. He has nearly six years with FUNimation Entertainment running their anime channel before heading up the FUNimation (http://www.funimation.com/) digital video group. That group provides internet content to such vendors as iTunes, Netflix, Xbox, PlayStation and YouTube. Under his management at FUNimation, the division raised production to 17,000 episodes annually for internet content distribution. Mr. Tyler believes his capabilities as a video engineer and ease with any and all video formats complement and support the abilities and in-demand excellence of the seasoned AndTransfer veteran team. ????????????????????????????????????????????

Brandon met Dylan while at FUNimation. Now his co-owner and a fellow native Texan, Dylan Rogers had stints at Allied Film & Video (later Allied Digital Technologies), where he advanced to lead duplication operator and then assistant editor doing off-line edits and audio syncing for dailies; and Vision Wise, where he was an MPEG-2 encoder and lead DVD author, guiding an exceptionally talented team that solidified Dallas as a central location on par with the west and east coast dominated DVD authors. He became lead DVD author at FUNimation Entertainment and expanded his contributions to create the early workflows for digital distribution to iTunes and Xbox Live. Before joining AndTransfer, he was with Burbank?s Ascent Media (http://www.ascentmedia.com/Default.aspx) as a Digital Media Engineer and with Technicolor (http://www.technicolor.com/), where he helped create much of the automation used in creation of client deliverables and developed processes for day to day operations. He also worked closely with the development team in positioning new global strategic product offerings. At AndTransfer, he?ll lead further technical and systems development.

Original AndTransfer owner Mr. Feldman opened his doors to serve numerous advertising agencies located in and around Dallas that wanted local state-of-the-art telecine and color correction technology. The holding company, Video Post & Transfer (VPT) (http://www.videopost.com/), was the first to introduce film-to-tape transfer to the Southwestern United States. It quickly became the sole destination of numerous national, regional and local clients and gained international notoriety for its technological innovations in film-to-tape transfer, among other in-demand capabilities. VPT?s telecine division was spun off as AndTransfer.

Today, AndTransfer is one of the finest DI, telecine and mastering service companies in the world.

Based in Dallas, Texas, at 5910 North Central Expressway, AndTransfer is on the web at http://www.AndTransfer.com.????

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GTT Group to Release Digital Video Compression Patent Acquisition Opportunity

Portland, OR (PRWEB) October 11, 2011

Global Technology Transfer Group, Inc. (GTT Group) announces the availability of a patent related to the digital video production and distribution market.

The Digital Video Compression patent describes a method for automatically adjusting reference frame intervals. The technology is used during compression of digital video. The invention is seeing significant adoption because it greatly simplifies the video compression process and improves the quality of the compressed video.

The Digital Video Compression patent could be utilized in any product that is capable of producing a digital video. Some examples include video editing software, devices that record video (e.g. cell phones, tablets, computers with cameras, etc.), and websites that convert video from one format to another. Converting video from one format to another may be found in video-sharing websites that take user-generated content and convert it to the site?s preferred video format.

The patent has a particularly strong priority date. The priority date falls between the first versions of popular video formats, such as MPEG-1, which do not allow for automatic frame interval spacing, and the later sophisticated formats that do allow for its use.

GTT Group has prepared evidence of use material to illustrate how the patent has been adopted in the video production and distribution industry. The evidence of use materials will be made available to interested parties under non-disclosure and non-notice provisions.

GTT Group will be approaching potential buyers and providing materials explaining the strategic advantages of acquiring the portfolio. In addition, GTT Group?s experts will be available to discuss the strengths of the patents and evidence of use in the market.

To receive more information about this opportunity, please contact Andrew Godsey at agodsey(at)gttgrp(dot)com

About Global Technology Transfer Group, Inc.

Global Technology Transfer Group, Inc. is a patent transaction advisory and consulting firm, which combines core competencies in patent valuation with its global network to deliver unparalleled results. GTT Group?s services include Patent Valuation, Patent Brokerage, Patent Acquisition, Patent Licensing Support, Wireless Related Standards Review, and Patent Research & Strategic Analysis. The company?s corporate headquarters are in Portland, Oregon, with representation in North America, Asia, and Europe.

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Advanced Inspection Technologies Now Offers The Advanced Vuman Video Borescope

Melbourne, FL (PRWEB) October 25, 2011

INVIZ VUMAN RA-Y X-Way long length video borescope is capable of fully articulating while completely coiled on the reel. This is not possible with any other video borescope. Using an advanced micro compressor the Vuman allows the tip of the borescope to be steered up to 100 ft (30 Meters) while wrapped up on the storage reel or passed through unlimited bends. Other systems are bulky and not able to articulate unless they are laid end to end in a straight line.

Other video borescopes rely on cables to manipulate the tip of the borescope. Cable articulation has always had limitations due to tension that is present in the cable over great distances or multiple bends. This tension causes the cables to fail or become unresponsive. The Vuman offers a tremendous advantage over these systems because no tension is present regardless of length or the number bends. Compressed air is push through the length of the video borescope to manipulate the tip with astonishing results.

Another ground-breaking feature of the Vuman video borescope is remote focus. The vuman has eliminated the need for multiple tip adapters be allowing the user to remotely focus the optics of the video borescope. Remote focus capability allows the Vuman to provide astonishing high resolution images over a variety of distances without the need to change tip adapters.

Remote focus is an incredible advantage over traditional video borescope and videoscopes that rely on the need to change are variety of tip adapters depending on the distance the video borescope is viewing. Tip adapters have always forced a compromise with image resolution along with a variety of other issues that remote focus now overcomes. Tip adapters often forced the operator to remove the video borescope from an inspection to change tip adapters, using up valuable time. Tip adapters have also been a source of cross threading causing expensive repairs or being lost and becoming foreign object debris. Video borescope or videoscope tip adapters are also expensive and often add thousands of dollars to the cost of a video borescope or videoscope. The Vuman's remote focus feature eliminates all the issues that have been associated with tip adapters.

The Vuman is currently the most advanced video borescope manufactured for industrial applications. The system remains portable, light weight and durable with carbon fiber construction and aluminum alloy construction. Advanced features of the Vuman also include; an internal 320 GB hard drive for storage of jpeg and mpeg video, powerful HID light source, user friendly menus and an on board operators guide.

The Vuman video borescope is designed for remote visual inspection at power generation, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, process and other industrial plants. Applications will include: turbines, boiler tubes, heat exchangers, steam feed lines, foreign object search and retrieval, orbital weld inspections, pressure vessels, purity piping, rotating machinery, pipes, gear boxes, and other difficult to inspect areas of industrial plants.

About Advanced Inspection Technologies: Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, AIT is the industry leader in the sales and rental of Remote Visual Inspection equipment such as borescopes, videoscope and pipe inspection cameras. AIT provides unparalleled 24x7 borescope rentals and infrared rentals, as well as foreign object search and retrieval tools. AIT?s rental services and products enable companies to inspect machinery, facilities and infrastructure in the safest, quickest and most cost-effective manner possible. AIT?s products have been used to improve the inspection process in all industries where image quality, safety, security and accuracy are of the highest concern, such as aviation, electric power generation, petro-chemical, manufacturing, predictive maintenance and infrastructure.

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Mahkoo Announces Call for Beta Testers: Independent Musicians, Labels and Music Video Producers

Washington DC (PRWEB) January 05, 2012

Music video startup Mahkoo.com, aims to establish itself as the high quality platform for professionally produced music videos by independent musicians. Imagine the VEVO of independent artists and you have half the understanding of Mahkoo and its goal to bring some of the best independent artists into a single space.

Music videos on Mahkoo are uploaded by independent musicians, record labels or music video producers. The uploaded videos are reviewed internally by the Mahkoo team prior to approving the video to be on the Mahkoo platform. This is the startups method of controlling the quality of content it hosts. Artists also have the ability to create profiles that can house all their music videos grouped by selected categories and promote upcoming events (concerts, appearances, live meetings, etc).

The greatest advantage of Mahkoo is that all music videos are reviewed to ensure that only high quality videos from top emerging artists are approved to be on the platform. This method ensures that fans and viewers are presented with the best in class of emerging artist entertainment.

Mahkoo?s ?Direct Connect? feature allows artists to upload music videos and directly connect it with videos of their peers to be displayed and tracked together; an exciting opportunity for artists to track their video progress against their peers. The platform ranks musician videos and provides a snapshot of the top performing musicians. The rankings are currently based on the company?s own algorithm to determine the popularity of a video; this goes beyond the simple count of views.

Mahkoo is currently running its beta. Emerging musicians and labels can sign up at http://beta.mahkoo.com.

The Co-Founders of Mahkoo said this is the beginning of a multi-year plan set out to bring independent music and music videos to the forefront of technology, integrated in a way that has yet to be seen. There are several platforms aimed at independent musicians; however, none are integrated in the fashion that speaks to the full spectrum of the core work produced by these artists.

The team also manages a blog at http://blog.mahkoo.com that profiles emerging artist issues in the independent music world, available tools, and other related topics.

About Mahkoo

Mahkoo is an exclusive music video entertainment platform powered by today?s emerging artists to showcase a new class of high-quality professionally produced music videos. Exclusivity of the site is managed through the review and approval of all content; the best way to bring top emerging artists into a single space for great musical entertainment.

The Mahkoo community consists of emerging artists, music lovers and industry professionals that have a desire to see artists get the exposure they deserve. Mahkoo serves its community by promoting music videos and providing an addictive entertainment experience.

Mahkoo has had more than 2,000 unique visitors from more than 60 countries since the launch of their beta phase onDecember 20, 2011 and are excited to see these numbers grow as they continue their marketing efforts.

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AMX Releases Vision2 Streaming Video System with Next-Gen Innovations

Richardson, Texas (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

AMX?, the leading provider of solutions that simplify the implementation, maintenance, and use of technology to create effective environments, announced today the immediate availability of its advanced Vision2 IPTV system (version 7.2). The innovative video solution includes several new capabilities that enable companies and universities to develop or upgrade video communications initiatives.

IP video has become a core communication tool, but for casual users, operating recording and management software can be complex. The new release of Vision2 features a control API that allows digital video to easily be integrated into an AMX control system for user-friendly management with capabilities such as one-touch recording and archiving. And, addressing the increased use of mobile devices, AMX has added a new user interface that allows Vision2 content to be viewed on-the-go.

The new MPEG Reflector Appliance function gives organizations the ability to deliver live streaming video to multiple remote locations using a single stream per location. With this capability organizations can provide video access to satellite campuses without overwhelming their corporate Internet connections due to high-bandwidth video.

Additional features include customizable layouts that give organizations the ability to create menus and guides ? with custom brands, logos and colors ? for Vision2 compatible set-top boxes. On top of the new features, Vision2 continues to make recording and managing video easy with tools that streamline the user experience, like adding metadata to recorded content to aid in searching for videos.

?Vision2 is the ideal, live and on-demand video-streaming solution for any organization,? said AMX Chief Technology Officer Robert Noble. ?With these new features there is no other turnkey streaming solution that lets novice users as easily initiate, manage and distribute streaming content for company presentations, conferences or training classes.?

For more information about Vision2 from AMX contact your AMX dealer or go to http://www.amx.com.

About AMX

AMX hardware and software solutions simplify the implementation, maintenance, and use of technology to create effective environments. With the increasing number of technologies and operating platforms at work and home, AMX solves the complexity of managing this technology with reliable, consistent and scalable systems. Our award-winning products span control and automation, system-wide switching and audio/video signal distribution, digital signage and technology management. They are implemented worldwide in conference rooms, homes, classrooms, network operation / command centers, hotels, entertainment venues, broadcast facilities, among others.

AMX was founded in 1982 and is a member of the Duchossois Group of Companies. For more information, visit http://www.amx.com.

AMX is a trademark of AMX, LLC registered in the U.S. and other countries.

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