Can someone in the biz comment on the role for uncompressed video traffic in movie production, and television studios. Is this a small niche? Are there any real advantages? Is this a threat that should be
considered for the future of CUBE's encoders? Thanks
Millimeter Magazine Honors New FiberHydrant `Digital Dailies' Technology
`Best of NAB '97' Award Presented to Cinebase Software by Major Entertainment Industry Technical Journal For Transmission Innovation
LOS ANGELES, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- FiberHydrant(TM), a new video transmission breakthrough from Cinebase Software that delivers full-resolution ``digital dailies'' for film and video production in real time, anywhere in the world, has been awarded a ``Tommy'' award by the editors of Millimeter Magazine.
Named for inventor and motion picture pioneer Thomas Edison, the award cites FiberHydrant as ``one of the best products and technologies presented at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters).'' The announcement appears in the magazine's June, 1997 issue, released today (6/16). The NAB convention was held in Las Vegas last April (1997).
The hardware and software development, which delivers uncompressed full- resolution time-coded video and audio in real time between two or more facilities on high-capacity telephone, cable or network lines, is being introduced by Cinebase, makers of the leading digital media management application for television and post-production.
Millimeter, the magazine of motion picture, television and multimedia production, is celebrating its 24th year as a leading production industry trade journal.
``This award is presented to Cinebase because it exemplifies the kind of new, original technology we want to recognize,'' said Bruce Stockler, editor of Millimeter. ``We asked a distinguished panel of judges to survey both traditional media and the emerging technologies and recommend only those products that were truly innovative.''
``We're pleased to receive this recognition from Millimeter,'' noted Bo Ferger, Vice President of Design and Technology for Cinebase. ``Its stature in the entertainment production community is unparalleled, and we are grateful for their recognition of this new production paradigm.
``We believe that FiberHydrant provides the solution to an industry looking for the `killer app' to help them implement an all-digital, full-bandwidth pathway between production or post-production in film, video or audio. With FiberHydrant, instant transmission of any video segment or image from a production stage to the desk of a production executive or editor, locally or globally, is a reality today.''
A new stand-alone company will be in place by early August to handle the development, sales and marketing of FiberHydrant, Ferger added.
Developed by Cinebase for use with high-speed networks, FiberHydrant takes the uncompressed output from any digital video device -- a video recorder or production switcher, for example -- then reconstructs and times it to mesh seamlessly with similar systems at a remote location. Two FiberHydrant transmission devices can simultaneously send and receive to each other.
The FiberHydrant system can be controlled from anywhere on the network -- for example, an executive's desktop computer -- via Java software. (Editors: Java software is universally acceptable to any computer operating system: Macintosh, Windows, UNIX, etc.) Transmission and connectivity is handled through an intuitive, simple interface controlled either by touch screen or mouse.
FiberHydrant is currently in Alpha testing. The present version is running on switched OC 3 and OC 12 ATM networks. Future plans include versions using Fibre Channel and gigabit Ethernet networks.
Cinebase Software, Inc. is the developer of the Cinebase digital media management system (DMMS), the only asset manager capable of cataloging unlimited digital information -- digitized film and video clips, audio and still graphics -- and managing, repurposing and redistributing these assets in real time. Cinebase software is used by leading entertainment, advertising, marketing communications and multimedia/interactive companies.
For more information on FiberHydrant, call Bo Ferger, Vice President of Design and Technology, at Cinebase Software, Inc., 15303 Ventura Blvd., Suite 1147, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, Phone: 818-907-3865; FX: 818-977-8269. |
