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cartNews a Safe Harbor blogMatrox MXO2 LE, MXO2 and MXO2 Rack now available for the PC
Key features of Matrox MXO2 LE, MXO2, and MXO2 Rack on the PC
Matrox Mtx.utils 2.0 is now available for you to download. Matrox Mtx.utils 2.0 provides the following new features for Matrox MXO2 products:
Matrox Mtx.utils 2.0 provides the following new features for Matrox CompressHD:
Boris FX Unveils New XML Transfer Plug-In for Adobe After Effects
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris XML Transfer, a new Adobe After Effects plug-in designed for seamless transfer of Apple Final Cut Pro program sequences to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, media clips, transitions, and geometric transformations. "Improved integration between Adobe, Apple, and Avid applications is a recurring request among digital media workgroups," commented Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder, Boris FX. "Boris Continuum Complete and Final Effects Complete effects presets have always been compatible across Adobe, Apple, and Avid host applications. With the release of Boris XML Transfer, we bring integration to a new level, giving editors the ability to transfer entire Final Cut Pro sequences to After Effects. - including multi-clip edits, effects, and audio." Boris XML Transfer Feature Highlights
Pricing and Availability Sorenson Media Launches Sorenson Squeeze 6
Sorenson Media today announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 6, a significant update to the gold-standard video encoding software application. Sorenson Squeeze 6 provides the first total workflow solution for video professionals, enabling customers to employ innovative tools - such as email and text notifications and a secure review and approval process - that simplify the overall workflow and allow them to more easily encode and publish their video files on the Internet. Optimized video codecs and new filters have also been added, significantly improving video quality and encoding speed. Video Management Made Easy
Higher Quality, Faster Encoding, Expanded Compatibility
To coincide with the release of Squeeze 6, Sorenson Media has also launched an innovative new Preset Exchange, an online repository of professional "video encoding recipes" or presets. The presets in the Exchange have been created by top industry compression experts, thereby providing Squeeze 6 users with direct access to the same encoding tools used by seasoned encoding professionals to get the best quality out of their encoding processes. Because the Preset Exchange is seamlessly integrated with Squeeze 6, users can instantly import new presets into Squeeze by clicking "Install" on the Preset Exchange Web site. Along with previous integration with Avid’s suite of editing applications, Sorenson Squeeze 6 also now works seamlessly with Apple’s Final Cut Pro and iMovie. This process significantly improves workflow times by eliminating the need for cumbersome exporting and importing between applications and enables users to tap into the powerful Squeeze feature set directly from their favorite editing software. Pricing and Availability Genarts, Inc. Acquires Wondertouch
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire particleIllusion™ and all related products and technologies from wondertouch LLC. The acquisition includes particleIllusion SE, all Emitters and Pro Emitters, particleIllusion for AE, and all additional intellectual property from wondertouch LLC. As part of the acquisition, Alan Lorence, the former CEO of wondertouch and creator of particleIllusion, will join GenArts as a full-time developer. wondertouch and particleIllusion will continue to operate as stand-alone brands, separate from GenArts Sapphire™, Monsters™ and Raptors™. Customers can continue to obtain wondertouch products and support exactly as they have in the past by visiting www.wondertouch.com. In addition, particleIllusion will be sold through the same reseller channels as before and new emitters will continue to be delivered on their customary regular basis. Separately, GenArts has announced that the highly anticipated wondertouch plug-ins for Adobe After Effects will be called particleIllusion for After Effects, and will ship in December 2009. Please visit www.wondertouch.com for more information about particleIllusion for After Effects. "In 2008, we laid out a vision to accelerate GenArts’ growth via acquisition, innovation and strategic partnerships," said Katherine Hays, CEO of GenArts. "We chose this path to align the company more fully with our customers who are shifting their emphasis away from in-house visual effects tools development, and toward a greater reliance on standardized tools from trusted vendors. This acquisition is another key step toward achieving that vision. The addition of particleIllusion not only provides GenArts a well respected product today, but its core particles technology offers an important foundation upon which we can further develop the types of new and innovative products that our customers require from their trusted vendor. We’re extremely excited about this acquisition, and we welcome Alan to the GenArts family." Created by Lorence, particleIllusion is a sprite-based particle effects application designed to provide the most comprehensive and efficient particle effects creation workflow. Utilizing hardware-accelerated rendering, it is now used worldwide by creative professionals working in film post-production and pre-visualization, standard and HD video, commercial broadcast, motion graphics, and game content creation. With particleIllusion, visual effects artists have access to thousands of presets that they can use to create innumerable effects such as smoke, fire, explosions, watery ripples, sparkles, colorful artistic fantasies and more. "I am thrilled to join the world-class GenArts development team and return to my passion of continuing to evolve particleIllusion," said Lorence. "I look forward to the support and backing of such a creative organization as we explore ways to advance the state of the art of visual effects, and inspire film and video artists to bring their stories to life." To hear directly from GenArts CEO Katherine Hays and wondertouch CEO Alan Lorence about this acquisition, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNL0a2Pa8x4. Grass Valley Announces EDIUS Commercial Contest
Hey Filmmakers! It's time to show off your editing skills! All you need to do is cut a commercial for Grass Valley™ EDIUS™ non-linear editing software to get a chance to win thousands of dollars of production gear! The Grand Prize is a full post-production suite comprising:
The style and message is entirely up to you – the only requirements are that the commercial promotes EDIUS software and uses humor. So be funny! Go nuts! The competition is open for entries until December 9th, 2009. For more details on how to enter, click here! ATTO Technology Products Achieve VMware Ready™ Status
ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, has announced that its 8Gb/s and 4Gb/s Celerity Fibre Channel Host Adapters and 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s ExpressSAS SAS/SATA Host Adapters have achieved VMware Ready™ status. This status designates that Celerity and ExpressSAS host adapters have passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and are now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List. Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that Celerity Fibre Channel host adapters and ExpressSAS SAS/SATA host adapters make best use of VMware technology and are ready for deployment in customer environments. "We are pleased that ATTO’s Celerity and ExpressSAS HBAs qualify for the VMware Ready logo, signifying to customers that they have passed specific VMware testing and interoperability criteria, and are ready to run their mission-critical business applications and operations," said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliance programs, VMware. "ATTO is proud to announce that we are now delivering valuable connectivity solutions to customers looking to seamlessly integrate storage into VMware environments," said Tim Klein, president and CEO, ATTO Technology. "By using Celerity and ExpressSAS host adapters with VMware ESX enterprises can increase the benefits of server virtualization by providing greater I/O bandwidth and storage capacity for the deployment of multiple virtual machines running various applications." The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. With more than 1200 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers. ATTO’s Celerity Fibre Channel and ExpressSAS SAS/SATA host adapters can be found within the online VMware Partner Product Catalog at http://wwwa.vmware.com/partnercatalog/catalog/. Hardware products can be found within the online VMware Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search. Telestream Offers First Fully Integrated Solution for YouTube Fingerprinting
Telestream, a leading provider of digital video workflow solutions, has announced the first solution which offers YouTube fingerprinting for both live and file-based workflows. Digital fingerprinting is a process that uniquely identifies video, making it easier for media companies to discover and track their video content which is uploaded to YouTube. Media companies are increasingly opting to partner with YouTube by claiming videos as their own, which results in the ability to share revenues with YouTube for advertising placed around their videos. "Telestream customers include the largest content owners in the world, many of whom have an interest in controlling and monetizing their content on YouTube, even if they didn’t upload it," said Barbara DeHart, VP of Marketing at Telestream. "This new integration allows our customers to achieve that goal with significantly more of their content, without adding any steps or costs to their workflow." Telestream products are used to cost-effectively ingest and convert live event and on-demand programming for multi-platform distribution to broadcast, cable, web and mobile viewers. The company’s installed base of thousands of major media companies can now use FlipFactory and Pipeline to easily create YouTube fingerprinting to ensure content identification and tracking. "It is vital that content owners be able to quickly and easily identify and manage their video on YouTube," said George Salem, Product Manager at Google. "Telestream is a natural partner because they offer a comprehensive live and file-based solution, and the majority of major media companies are already using their products." Telestream’s industry-leading FlipFactory is a full workflow automation system that offers the industry’s broadest video file-format support for transcoding, and the industry’s deepest integration with third-party systems for file discovery and delivery. The new solution allows FlipFactory to create a digital reference file, otherwise known as a fingerprint, and automatically upload the reference file to YouTube. This allows content owners to automatically track and protect their content, without incurring any extra steps, costs or processes. This new capability can be added to any existing FlipFactory workflow, providing the broadest file-based fingerprinting support in the industry. Telestream’s Pipeline network video capture system extends the capability of FlipFactory to provide real-time fingerprinting for live production environments, including sports, awards and press events. One or more channels of Pipeline can be used to capture video from cameras or live broadcast feeds and immediately ingest it into FlipFactory for fingerprinting, creation of the digital reference file and uploading to YouTube – all within a few minutes of the live event. This allows media companies to either block or monetize videos of their live events on YouTube. Pipeline live video capture and FlipFactory fingerprinting will be demonstrated by YouTube to interested partners. YouTube fingerprinting is a new feature in FlipFactory 7.0 which will be available this month. More information about Pipeline and FlipFactory is available at www.telestream.net. Media 100 Announces Support for Blackmagic Design Video I/O Cards
Media 100, a leading provider of advanced editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, postproduction, and new media industries, has announced that Media 100 Suite Version 1.1 is now available. Media 100 Suite v1.1 adds support for Blackmagic Design's Intensity Pro, DeckLink SDI, DeckLink Studio, and DeckLink HD Extreme video cards. Released in August 2009, Media 100 Suite brings blazingly-fast, high-quality editing and compositing to Mac OS X. Offering a unique combination of ease-of-use, ease-of-learning, and consistent professional results, Media 100 Suite takes advantage of many QuickTime codecs including DVCPRO HD and Apple ProRes 422. Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe After Effects integration lets users share projects amongst Final Cut Pro, Color, and Media 100 and export timelines from Media 100 to After Effects. Editors can export legacy Media 100 projects to Final Cut Pro for further editing and revisions, export Final Cut Pro sequences into Media 100, or export a Media 100 sequence to Color for advanced color grading. In addition to Blackmagic Design video I/O cards, Media 100 Suite supports Matrox MXO2, AJA video I/O cards, Media 100 HDx hardware, FireWire I/O, and Panasonic P2 acquisition. Boris RED is included for integrated 3D compositing, titling, and effects. Media 100 Suite v1.x customers can download the v1.1 update free of charge from the Media 100 web site at http://www.media100.com/. A full-functioning 14-day trial version of Media 100 Suite is available for free download at http://www.media100.com/ Matrox Announces Windows Drivers for Products Featuring Matrox MAX
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that Windows drivers for Matrox CompressHD1 and Matrox MXO2 Mini2 with the MAX option are now available as a free download from the Matrox website for registered owners. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of HD H.264 files for Blu-ray, Flash, YouTube, and the web. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Premiere Pro on the PC. "Users of Matrox MAX technology for Windows get the HD encoding speed and quality of a high-end workstation from a laptop or older PC when delivering to Blu-ray, Flash, and YouTube," said Alberto Cieri, Matrox senior sales and marketing director. "If they are lucky enough to own that high-end system, the Matrox MAX hardware can be dedicated to cranking out HD H.264 deliverables, letting them use more system resources to continue editing." "Creative professionals who use PC laptops for H.264 encoding can expect a huge performance boost with Matrox MAX technology," said Chris Yigit, Matrox technical marketing manager. "For example, creating a 20 minute H.264 Blu-ray file from an XDCAM EX 1080i 60 HQ source typically takes about two and half hours on an Intel Core 2 Duo laptop. Using Matrox MAX technology, that same file can be generated in about 19 minutes." Key features of Matrox CompressHD for the PC
Key features of Matrox MXO2 Mini for the PC
Key features of Matrox MAX technology for the PC
Matrox Releases Support for Snow Leopard
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced support for Snow Leopard across its line of Mac I/O1 and H.264 encoding2 products including Matrox MXO2, Matrox MXO2 LE, Matrox MXO2 Rack, Matrox MXO2 Mini, and Matrox CompressHD. The version 1.7 software3 implements 32- and 64-bit support for the new Mac OS X v10.6. It is now available as a free download from the Matrox website to all registered users. "The timely release of this new software upgrade underscores our commitment to provide Matrox users with the support they need to get the most from their creative tools," said Wayne Andrews, product manager at Matrox. About the Matrox MXO2 product line for the Mac About Matrox CompressHD for the Mac
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