Las Vegas, NV; NAB 2007, BOOTH #SL5410 (April 15, 2007) – MTI Film is pleased to announce multiple strategic alliances and integration certifications with Avid, EFILM, DVS, DataDirect Networks, and Quantel this year at the National Association of Broadcasters conference. These alliances create greater flexibility and integration opportunities when utilizing CONTROL Dailies and its new sister application CONVEY, and Correct DRS™ Version 6.
MTI Film now has three certified providers of SAN (storage area network) technology that fully integrate with MTI Film’s award-winning CONTROL Dailies system. Strategic alliances with Bright Systems, DVS, and DataDirect Networks enable CONTROL Dailies customers to create custom applications that capitalize on each SAN provider’s unique combination of hardware, software and integration services.
EFILM partnered with MTI to use CONTROL Dailies as a key component in their new and innovative dailies workflow. According to Joe Matza, EFILM president, “our new CinemaScan™ Dailies process will deliver a number of groundbreaking innovations to our workflow, and CONTROL Dailies is a critical component. MTI Film not only understood our requirements but also contributed to the solution”.
CONTROL Dailies is an image and audio control solution that facilitates faster than real-time image transfer and audio ingest, metadata collection, post synchronization in SD and HD resolutions, and output to multiple file formats and deliverables for the delivery of motion picture dailies.
Quantel has partnered with MTI Film to create a solution that enables file sharing between CORRECT DRS™, (Digital Restoration System) and Quantel's flexible, collaborative post and DI environments utilizing the DPX format. CORRECT DRS™ is used in digital film restoration and digital film finishing, correcting a wide variety of imperfections and restoring them to their original pristine condition. “Quantel’s industry leadership has been evident for many years. Our partnership means that CORRECT DRS™ can now work directly in any Quantel DI suite, satisfying client requests from both companies”, says Linda White, MTI Film’s Director of Sales.
Avid DNxHD® technology has been licensed by MTI Film for use with CONVEY for CONTROL Dailies. CONVEY, debuting at NAB 2007, is a sister application to CONTROL Dailies that facilitates file based deliverables for the cutting and screening rooms. “Providing the cutting room with Avid DNxHD® files for editing directly out of the dailies environment will bring even greater efficiency to the editorial process, which is the goal of CONTROL Dailies and CONVEY. MTI Film is committed to integrating the Avid DNxHD® codec into it’s CONVEY product by the fourth quarter”, states Ms. White.
MTI Film offers a suite of digital mastering software to the post-production and broadcast industries. MTI Film’s software suites are cost effective, scalable tools used for film and video image correction and dailies facilitation. The suites of mastering applications create a centralized digital workflow, allowing customers to significantly increase throughput and reduce hardware maintenance costs. MTI has been recognized with awards from the Advanced Technology Program of NIST, numerous trade publications, and the Hollywood Post Alliance.
Avid Technology, Inc. is the world leader in digital nonlinear media creation, management, and distribution solutions, enabling film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast professionals to work more efficiently, productively, and creatively. For more information about the company’s Oscar®, Grammy®, and Emmy® award-winning products and services, please visit: www.avid.com.
DataDirect Networks is the world's leading provider of high performance, high capacity networked storage solutions. Its S2A (Silicon Storage Appliance) architecture enables modern applications such as video streaming, content delivery, modeling and simulation, backup and archiving, cluster and supercomputing, and real-time collaborative workflows, that are driving the explosive demand for storage performance and capacity. DataDirect’s customers include the world’s leading high-performance computing centers, broadcast and post production facilities, Internet sites, telecommunications providers, and government agencies. Launched in 1998 and headquartered in Chatsworth, California, DataDirect Networks has an established global presence with research and development, and operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, contact DataDirect Networks at +1-818-700-7600; email at info@datadirectnet.com or visit www.datadirectnet.com.
The software and hardware manufacturer DVS based in Hanover, Germany and Los Angeles, USA, offers two award-winning products from its DI product range: Not only CLIPSTER® received a prize, but also Spycer®, the innovative data manager was announced “Pick of Show award from IBC 2006”. DVS has an international customer base. Post production houses both large and small worldwide and the broadcast industry, too, have DVS products in daily operation. R&D departments also use DVS systems for their development work of multimedia applications. The company has a large OEM customer base as well: Numerous leaders in the industry integrate powerful DVS video I/O boards in their own products, thus enhancing their performance. Visit www.dvs.de for further information.
Quantel is dedicated to creating the most powerful and efficient tools for content creation and production in the digital age. Quantel systems combine industry-leading performance with total scalability in both hardware and software across post production, graphics, digital intermediate, news and sports production for multiple resolutions, team-working environments. www.quantel.com