(Boston, Massachusetts--April 17, 2009) EditShare®, a technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, today announced a technology partnership with ASSIMILATE™, a leading developer of high-resolution and stereoscopic applications for the DI market. The new development combines the award winning EditShare shared storage solutions - XStream Series - with ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH® Digital Process Solution, enabling real-time DPX and RED 4K workflows across DI and non DI post-production equipment. Benefits of this new integration offer the highly popular EditShare project sharing with unmatchable real-time performance for SCRATCH artists.
The newly integrated solution will be demonstrated at NAB 2009, (April 20 to 23 in Las Vegas, NV) on the EditShare stand (SL6420).
"For many years EditShare has been at the forefront of Network Attached Storage solutions for popular post-production tools from Adobe, Apple, Avid and more. With the introduction of digital cameras such as the RED ONE™ Digital 4K Camera providing stunning performance, there is now a significant move toward DI workflows. The EditShare XStream is a key component in enabling DI production pipelines to be fully integrated and tapeless from acquisition to finishing," comments Andy Liebman, CEO and founder, EditShare. "EditShare will guarantee the real-time performance and image quality while facilitating cross workflow media sharing with non-DI applications and systems, freeing facilities from bringing work into digital and putting it back to tape."
EditShare XStream DI allows the entire facility to be connected, from ingest to delivery of the final cut. EditShare is agnostic to any specific manufacturer so the EditShare XStream has been engineered to work seamlessly with any application supporting 1 and 10GbE. EditShare XStream DI takes advantage of the PCI-e infrastructure to combine high data rate streams, such as DPX, with a large number of simultaneous video streams coupled with almost limitless storage capability.
"SCRATCH includes a rich tool set of cost-effective real-time post tools - conform, construct, color grading, and finishing - which have made it a key enabler in the migration to digital intermediate pipelines by post production houses for many years now. While SCRATCH is resolution independent, it's ideal for tapeless workflows at digital 2K and 4K," says Jeff Edson, CEO, ASSIMILATE. "Combined with EditShare Xstream DI storage, users will experience a seamless, extremely efficient workflow that can greatly increase productivity."
About Scratch Workflows
Whether an imaging project is 2K/4K film, HD/SD, RED ONE 4K, stereoscopic 3D, or digital film, SCRATCH enables your workflow of choice. SCRATCH includes a robust core feature set that includes real-time data management, review/playback, assemble/edit, conform, primary and secondary color grading, multi-layer grading stack, audio, visual effects (enhanced by third-party plug-ins), support for 1D, 3D and customer-developed Look-Up-Tables (LUTs), finishing, and final mastering to any format. Filmmakers and post houses benefit from the bottom-line advantages of the SCRATCH digital workflow: increased speed and productivity, ability to easily experiment, quality output to any format, and an up-tick in profits.
EditShare Complete Collaboration
The Storage and XStream Series are part of the EditShare Complete Collaboration line of products which provide shared media and collaborative workflows - from ingest through production to archive. In addition to the Storage Series and XStream Series, the Complete Collaboration line includes EditShare FLOW and EditShare Ark.
Designed for the industry's leading editing and compositing products from Adobe, Apple, Assimilate, Autodesk, Avid, Digidesign, Digital Vision, and Sony, EditShare storage servers, including the ultra-performance XStream series, allow all connected workstations to capture, access and share in real time a common pool of media files. Regardless of application or platform, source material, work in progress and finished packages are shared and instantly available to all users on the EditShare network. EditShare is also the only solution that provides full Project Sharing among both Apple and Avid editing workgroups. EditShare servers connect via Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
FLOW Ingest captures up to four channels of media and associated metadata, storing each channel in up to three formats simultaneously and outputting a proxy for fast retrieval. No background transcoding is required and files are available immediately for editing. EditShare's unique Universal Media File technology allows ingested media to be shared and used by editors working on both Avid and Apple editing applications.
FLOW Browse simplifies media cataloging, search and retrieval within EditShare shared storage environments. Users can quickly locate media among hundreds of thousands of clips on the EditShare media spaces. From FLOW Browse, users can update metadata, log clips, and drag and drop media to Avid and FCP bins.
FLOW Ingest and Browse are fully integrated with EditShare's Storage Series as well as the ultra-performance XStream Series for high-volume, high-demand environments.
EditShare Ark provides a full range of very cost effective, disk-based solutions for backup, mirroring and archiving needs. While Ark systems are not generally usable for realtime editing, in a crisis situation where something has happened to a facility's main EditShare storage, Ark Disk Based Storage can be "activated" and used to complete mission critical work while the primary storage is repaired.
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.
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