Unspooled At Sundance

February 1, 2010 (Stockholm, Sweden) Digital Vision, whose highly regarded color grading and enhancement products are part of the workflow at leading facilities around the world, congratulates the filmmakers and films that screened and competed at the Sundance Film Festival, just wrapped in Park City, Utah.

“Our customers are the facilities and artists that support the creativity of storytellers. Our focus is directly on them, and we are proud to have contributed to the work of the filmmakers whose projects premier, screen or compete at Sundance,” noted Alexa Chollet, Director of Marketing, Digital Vision.

Projects at Sundance that were supported by Digital Vision products include:

Final Frame, New York
Bass Awards (NEXT)
The Tillman Story (US Documentary Competition)
My Perestroika (US Documentary Competition)
Joan Rivers (US Documentary Competition)

Lit Post, Hollywood
Frozen (US Dramatic Competition)
The Perfect Host (Park City at Midnight)

Tunnel, Santa Monica
The Dry land (US Dramatic Competition)

Will Cox, Final Frame Co-Founder and Colorist noted that, “Over the past decade, we have had the amazing opportunity to work with some of the most talented independent filmmakers on the scene today. We help them execute their technical requirements, but our job is ultimately to empower their creative voice. Digital Vision helps us to do that, time and again.”

Kyle Jackson, Owner of Tunnel Post in Santa Monica, commented that, “We are fortunate to have the opportunity to work with talented filmmakers doing exceptional work and support the indie community as we did with ‘The Dry Land.’ Those collaborations are everything to us, and Digital Vision supports us every step of the way.”

About Digital Vision
Digital Vision provides innovative image restoration, enhancement, color correction and data conforming systems that major movie studios, television networks and post production facilities use to master and deliver feature films, TV programs and commercials. The company’s Nucoda product line provides a strong suite of products for tapeless and non linear grading for HD broadcast and 2k/4k digital intermediate productions. The company’s award-winning products are a standard of the media and entertainment industry and are deployed at top facilities and broadcasters around the world.

Digital Vision AB was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with three wholly owned subsidiaries, Digital Vision (US) in Los Angeles, California; Digital Vision UK in London, England; and Digital Vision in Hong Kong, China. The company maintains its global presence through a network of qualified distributors. Digital Vision is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange. For further information, go to www.digitalvision.se.

All trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of their respective companies.

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Media Contacts:

Digital Vision Contact:
Alexa Chollet
Email: alexa.chollet@digitalvision.se
Tel: +1 818 769-8111

USA PR Contact:
Christine Purse
ignite
Email: chris@ignite.bz
Tel: +1 818 508 0450
Mob: +1 323 806 9696

“Creative professionals are being asked by their clients to produce projects in a variety of formats for the web, Blu-ray, and mobile devices which can be very time consuming,” said Francesco Scartozzi, Matrox director of sales for the Americas. “The collaboration between Matrox and Apple on this road tour offers attendees a unique chance to discover the workflow advantages of combining Final Cut Studio with Matrox MAX technology to deliver video content faster than ever before.”

The Shoot, Edit, Deliver 2010 Road Tour kicks off in Burbank on February 2 then visits New York, Orlando, Dallas, Austin, Miami, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Boston, and St. Louis, before winding up in San Francisco on March 9. This event is offered free of charge through registration at http://www.matrox.com/video/en/events/united_states/. Attendees will have a chance to win a Matrox CompressHD H.264 accelerator card valued at $495.

About Matrox

Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for accelerated H.264 encoding, realtime editing, audio/video input/output, DVD/Blu-ray authoring, scan conversion, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs. Matrox’s Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators, and videographers worldwide. Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Janet Matey

Marketing Communications Director

Matrox Video Products Group

tel: (514) 822-6037

fax: (514) 685-2853

janet.matey@matrox.com

www.matrox.com/video

“Following a popular industry trend and feedback from our customers, we have introduced native support for SI-2K material. This is a highly attractive proposition for film makers who were impressed by the success of the camera’s use on Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire”, explains Bruno Munger, Digital Vision Product Manager. He adds, “Digital Vision is one hundred per cent committed to its customers and as such we are supporting one of the industry’s most popular digital camera formats to enable customers to provide clients with the choice, flexibility and quality that they expect.”

“CineForm RAW has earned the reputation in the industry as the compressed raw format of choice for pristine image quality,” added David Taylor, CEO and co-founder of CineForm. “Extending CineForm RAW to the Digital Vision workflow is a natural fit that will result in significant value-add for Digital Vision’s customers. Our two companies share the same commitment of extremely high image quality throughout the workflow, from camera to post production to finished product.”

Digital Vision will be exhibiting at Broadcast Video Expo, February 16th – 18th 2010, on stand L30.

About CineForm
CineForm Inc. develops compression-based workflow solutions for the post production marketplace. Offering the industry’s highest fidelity compression technology, CineForm is trusted among Hollywood filmmakers, television producers, videographers and digital media artists who rely on high image quality, high performance and innovative compression-based workflow solutions with up to 4k spatial resolutions for their online content creation projects. Available on both Windows and Mac platforms, CineForm workflow solutions are optimized for direct-to-disk camera recording, high-resolution post production and long-term content archives. For more information, visit www.cineform.com.

About Digital Vision
Digital Vision provides innovative image restoration, enhancement, color correction and data conforming systems that major movie studios, television networks and post-production facilities use to master and deliver feature films, TV programs and commercials.  The company’s Nucoda product line provides a strong suite of products for tapeless and non linear grading for HD broadcast and 2k/4k digital intermediate productions.  The company’s award-winning products are a standard of the media and entertainment industry and are deployed at top facilities and broadcasters around the world.
 
Digital Vision AB was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with three wholly owned subsidiaries, Digital Vision (US) in Los Angeles, California; Digital Vision UK in London, England; and Digital Vision in Hong Kong, China.  The company maintains its global presence through a network of qualified distributors.  Digital Vision is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange.  For further information, go to www.digitalvision.se.
 
All trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of their respective companies.

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Media Contacts:

Digital Vision Contact:
Alexa Chollet
Email: alexa.chollet@digitalvision.se
Tel: +1 818 769-8111

EMEA & Asia PR Contact: USA PR Contact:
Kate Ford Christine Purse
Jump PR ignite
Email: kate@jumppr.tv Email: chris@ignite.bz
Tel: +44 (0)1932 253624 Tel: +1 818 508 0450
Mob: +44 (0)7740 948065 Mob: +1 323 806 9696

A recent series of Canon Digital SLRs is capable of shooting high quality HD video at 1920×1080 size and various frame rates. The cameras like EOS 1D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D 18 offer great low light sensitivity but also suffer from minor image quality issues.

All of these Canon cameras produce H.264 encoded content which is not suitable for editing and must be first converted to an intermediate format.

All material shot in one day of productions is called “dailies.”  This term is used predominantly in the U.S.

The British term “rushes” means the same thing. The term comes from “rush processing” which is a lab term for quick material turnaround.

Traditionally dailes are dropped off at the lab at the end of day and are available for screening the next morning. Contemporary digital cinema formats like RED require little or no processing and allow near immediate playbak on set.

Uprezing, a.k.a. upresing is the process of  bringing tape based material into an NLE. The term was implies that the original material was captured at a resolution lower than required for the final product which is not always the case. The more accurate term “capturing” is preferred.

Uprezing also reffers to upscaling of picture information as in upconversions to HD and similar processes.

Capturing is the process of  bringing tape based material into an NLE like Avid. There are also two sligthly less accurate terms that describe the same process–”digitizing” and “uprezing” or “upresing.”

Digitizing, a.k.a. “capturing” is the process of  bringing tape based material into an NLE. The term was coined at the time when analog tape formats were the norm and it implies the material being converted into digital form. The newer term “capturing” is more accurate.

Viewbits Launches Compact Remote-Control PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) 1080i and p HD Indoor Camera for Broadcast, Video Conferencing, and Medical Markets

Verio HD^TM Camera Features HD-SDI, HDMI, YPbPr, or Composite Video Output, Can be Controlled Remotely from a Distance of Up to 2,000 Feet
San Diego, CA — Viewbits, the industrial cameras division of CMI, is introducing their newest high definition PTZ (pan tilt zoom) camera for pro video users. Verio HD^TM is an inexpensive, 1080i and p camera that pans, tilts, and zooms on command, via a wireless remote control or an optional keyboard-joystick. It is designed for broadcast studios, distance learning, videoconferencing, houses of worship, corporate training, and medical or scientific imaging.

Verio HD accommodates a wide variety of video formats. The output can be HD-SDI at 720p, 1080i, or 1080p, HDMI, YPbPr, or CVBS (composite video).

Controlled by a wireless hand-held remote control with a range of up to 2,000 feet (609.6 meters), the Verio HD moves smoothly. The camera pans and tilts at a speed of half a degree per second to 80 degrees per second, and features a built-in 10x zoom lens. The camera is compact - 8 and a half inches wide (216 millimeters).

The optional keyboard/joystick provides intuitive control for video shots, and lets users store up to ten configurations. Preset pan and tilt speeds are 80 degrees per second.

“We are very enthusiastic about our new remote-control PTZ camera. Verio HD makes it easy to smoothly pan from one individual to another. It’s ideal for video shoots of group presentations such as seminars, panel discussions, or worship services,” noted Ray Asturias, Sales Engineer for Viewbits. “The robotic features of Verio HD help our customers to be even more creative. And the camera offers excellent value.”

The Verio HD PTZ camera is now shipping.

Supplemental Information for Press Release

Features
Remote-control HD studio camera with pan, tilt, and zoom
Output: HD-SDI at 720p, 1080i, or 1080p, HDMI, YPbPr, or CVBS (Composite video)
Control from a distance of up to 2,000 feet (610 meters) via RS-232 Serial interface
Wireless remote control
Optional keyboard with joystick
2.1 Megapixel HD CMOS sensor
Built-in 10x zoom lens
Pans and tilts at up to 80 degrees per second
Compact size - only 8-1/2 inches wide (216 mm)
Automatic or manual white balance and focus
Optional keyboard/joystick lets you preset up to ten configurations

Suggested Retail Prices:
Verio HD^TM - $3,995 U.S.
Verio HD^TM with optional keyboard/joystick - $4,990 U.S.
Viewbits and Verio HD are trademarks of Computer Modules, Inc.
All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

About CMI and Viewbits
CMI, founded in 1982, is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California. Viewbits, the Industrial Cameras division of Computer Modules, Inc., sells HD, USB-2, CMOS, and X-Ray cameras to companies throughout the world.

For more information on CMI and Viewbits, please contact Rebecca Gray at +1 (858) 613-1818 or rebecca@computermodules.com. To download Viewbits press releases and product images, visit the news section at http://www.viewbits.com.

Viewbits, 11409 West Bernardo Ct. San Diego, CA, 92127
Web: www.viewbits.com phone: +1 (858) 613-1818, fax: +1 (858) 613-1815

Contact: Rebecca Gray
Marketing Manager
Viewbits division of Computer Modules, Inc.
858-613-1818
rebecca@computermodules.com

“Adobe Premiere Pro users on the Mac can now choose from the entire Matrox MXO2 product line for maximum I/O flexibility,” said Wayne Andrews, Matrox product manager. “They can edit anything, anywhere!”

Key features of Matrox MXO2

· Works with Intel-based MacBook Pros, Mac Pros, and Apple Xserve systems

· Lightweight – less than 3½ lbs. (1600 grams)

· Fits in your laptop bag – 13” x 9½” x 2” (330mm x 241mm x 51mm)

· Can run off a field battery or its AC adapter

· HD/SD SDI, HD/SD analog component, Y/C, and composite inputs and outputs

· Genlock – SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level sync

· 10-bit HDMI input, output, and monitoring with calibration controls including blue-only

· 10-bit realtime hardware up/down/cross conversion on capture and output

· Up to five user selectable simultaneous video outputs – HD and/or SD on HDMI, SDI, and analog

· Professional audio inputs and outputs including 5.1 surround sound monitoring

· Captures to a variety of codecs – 10-bit uncompressed HD and SD, DVCPRO HD, and many more

· File-based workflow support – XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, P2, P2HD

·RED workflow support

· Works with Final Cut Pro, Apple Color, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects and all QuickTime applications that support the V-out component

· Three-year hardware warranty and complimentary telephone support

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Price and availability
Matrox MXO2 products are available through a worldwide network of authorized dealers. The 1.8.1 driver release is available free of charge from the Matrox website for registered owners of Matrox MXO2 Mini, Matrox MXO2 LE, Matrox MXO2, Matrox MXO2 Rack and Matrox CompressHD.

About Matrox
Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for accelerated H.264 encoding, realtime editing, audio/video input/output, DVD/Blu-ray authoring, scan conversion, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs. Matrox’s Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators, and videographers worldwide. Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada. For more information visit www.matrox.com/video.

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Matrox is a registered trademark and Matrox MXO, Matrox CompressHD, and Matrox MAX are trademarks of Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged.

Janet Matey
Marketing Communications Director
Matrox Video Products Group
tel: (514) 822-6037
fax: (514) 685-2853
janet.matey@matrox.com
www.matrox.com/video