Partners

Technology Partners

Activated Content

In 2001, Activated Content developed the industry’s first comprehensive and practical watermarking solution for encoding identifiable, robust, inaudible and unique codes into digital audio. In August 2007, Activated Content announced that it licensed technology developed by the Microsoft Corp. Redmond research lab. This technology, when added to Activated Content’s own IP portfolio, strengthened the company’s position as having best of breed watermarking technology to apply to ad-supported content business models and broader market research applications.  For more information, please visit http://www.activatedcontent.com.

Avid Technology

Avid is a worldwide leader in tools for film, video, audio, and broadcast professionals — as well as for home audio and video enthusiasts. Avid professional and consumer brands include Avid, Digidesign®, M-Audio®, Pinnacle Systems®, Sibelius® and Sundance Digital® The vast majority of primetime television shows, feature films, commercials and chart-topping music hits are made using one or more Avid products. Whether used by seasoned professionals or beginning students, Avid’s products and services enable customers to work more efficiently, productively and creatively. Avid received an Oscar® statuette representing the 1998 Scientific and Technical Award for the concept, design, and engineering of the Avid Film Composer® system for motion picture editing. For more information about the company’s Oscar, Grammy® and Emmy® award-winning products and services, visit www.avid.com, del.icio.us, Flickr, twitter and YouTube; connect with Avid on Facebook or subscribe to Avid Industry Buzz.

Cinnafilm

Cinnafilm® is an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based specialty engineering company focused on creating the most powerful, reliable and simple to use texture control and resampling image processing solutions for creative professionals working in the film and broadcast postproduction markets. The company’s core patent-pending motion estimation technology is the result of years of dedicated research that taps into the full potential of parallel processing power using common off-the-shelf GPU hardware. Cinnafilm’s flagship product, Dark Energy®, includes such features as: cadence correction, unlimited format/standards conversion, de-noise, de-grain, de-interlacing, dust-busting, retiming, and accurate film simulation.

Additional information about the company and its products can be found at www.cinnafilm.com.

Civolution

Civolution is the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content. The company offers an extensive portfolio of cutting edge watermarking and fingerprinting technology applications for broadcast monitoring and forensic marking of media assets. Forensic watermarking introduces an efficient deterrent against content theft. Civolution’s NexGuard solutions for pre-release content are specifically designed for the (post)-production environment, making delivery of audio and video content copies towards various recipients and distribution channels both traceable and secure. NexGuard watermarking activated as an image filter ensures concurrent watermarking and transcoding as a single step in the workflow and allows for content watermarking for any output file format. For more information, please visit www.civolution.com

Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) is the global leader in technologies that are essential elements in the best entertainment experiences. Founded in 1965 and best known for high-quality audio and surround sound, Dolby creates innovations that enrich entertainment at the movies, at home, or on the go. Visit www.dolby.com for more information.

EVS-OpenCube

OpenCube, member of EVS Group, has significant expertise and experience in providing flexible and cost effective MXF-format solutions and media content management services for Broadcast, Production and D-Cinema industries.
The company develops both video and files ingest gateways and advanced technology applications for streamlined workflows and for effectively managing media content lifecycles, including capture, tape digitization, archive and preservation, metadata management, display, convert, repurpose, re-use and finish before delivery (TV and D-Cinema).

For more information visit www.evs.tv

Interra Systems

Interra Systems is a software products and services provider for Digital Media industry. Interra’s Digital Media solutions are led by Baton, a QC or Automated Verification System which ensures media content readiness, and by Vega, a family of Audio/Video analyzers which accelerate media product development. Interra’s Baton is an industry leading QC/Automated Content Verification software solution, Baton ensures Content Readiness in file-based SD, HD and mixed workflows. Baton customers include large broadcasters, post-production houses, cable, satellite operators in North America, Europe, Japan and other regions. Baton is highly differentiated with its support for maximum formats, quality checks, verification efficiency and integration readiness. Visit http://www.interrasystems.com/dms for more information.

Linear Acoustic

Linear Acoustic, a Telos company, is the leading authority in loudness control and upmixing solutions for digital television. The company designs and manufactures the award-winning AERO range of audio processing solutions and licenses key technologies such as UPMAX 5.1 channel upmixing to OEM partners. The company participates in standards work within the AES, IEEE, BKSTS and EBU, is a member of the ATSC, and is a sustaining member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Linear Acoustic is also proud to have provided its UPMAX:neo™ 5.1-channel upmixer for NBC’s coverage of the Beijing Summer Games. More information is available at www.linearacoustic.com.

MainConcept

MainConcept is one of the world’s leading providers of high-quality codec technology for the broadcast, film, consumer electronics, computer software, medical imaging and security markets. MainConcept™ solutions are optimized for various platforms including PCs, set-top boxes, portable media players and mobile phones. MainConcept supports the most popular industry standards such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, H.264/AVC, VC-1, DV, DVCPRO, DVCPro HD, JPEG2000, AAC, HE-AAC and AC3.MainConcept is based in Germany with subsidiaries in the USA, Russia, and Japan. The company serves the Asia-Pacific region through key distribution partners in China, Korea, and Taiwan. MainConcept customers include some of the most respected international companies in the world. MainConcept is a wholly owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX). For more information about MainConcept and available codecs visit www.mainconcept.com or www.codecby.com.

Minnetonka Audio Software

Minnetonka Audio Software is an award winning solutions provider for video, broadcast, games, and CD/DVD production. SurCode, discWelder and AudioTools AWE provide must have technology for top professionals around the world. Supported codecs include Dolby E, Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, DTS, DTS-HD and MLP formats. Spanning over two decades and based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Minnetonka Audio Software, Inc. has offices in Texas and a subsidiary in Germany in addition to an international network of distributors and channel partners who share our commitment to quality and service. For more information visit www.minnetonkaaudio.com

MOG

MOG is a leading provider of MXF and GXF-based solutions. MOG’s award-winning MXF development tools product line, including the MXF::SDK, MXFComponentSuite and GXF::SDK, has over the years enabled several major players in the market to accelerate their migration to file-based production. Building on the widespread adoption of the MXF file format, MOG’s workflow product line, including MXFSPEEDRAIL S1000 and mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000, is now taking file-based to the next step. These innovative products target process automation and workflow streamlining, by taking full advantage of MXF’s Metadata capabilities. For more information visit www.mog-technologies.com or www.mog-solutions.com.

Softel

Softel is a global leader in key TV and video technologies including subtitling and captioning, interactive TV, MPEG stream processing and multiplexing, opt and ad insertion cuing, and Teletext, delivered through a full range of products, professional services and bespoke development. Based in Pangbourne, near Reading in Berkshire, England, Softel also owns a company in the United States focused entirely on the Americas with offices in Los Angeles and metro New York. The company also has an impressive network of partners worldwide. With almost three decades of broadcast experience, the Softel customer list encompasses prestigious ‘blue chip’ broadcasters, major post production facilities as well as freelancers and smaller facilities. For more information on Softel, visit www.softelgroup.com.

thePlatform

thePlatform™ is the leading online video management and publishing company. Media companies rely on thePlatform as their open, central hub for managing, monetizing, and syndicating billions of video views annually. thePlatform’s services provide unmatched versatility for designing and supporting video businesses on PCs, mobile, and TV.  For more information, please visit http://www.theplatform.com.

Hardware Partners

Bluefish444

Bluefish444 is a division and brand name of Bluefish Technologies Pty Ltd. based in S. Melbourne, Australia. It is a leading supplier of uncompressed video cards for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems. Its video I/O cards are used by a large number of OEMs specializing in broadcast and digital intermediary solutions. By continuing to work with workstation vendors, system integrators, and resellers, Bluefish444 has made it easier for end-users to purchase off-the-shelf Windows and Mac OS X-based editing, animation, and compositing solutions, making sure that the hardware is optimized for analog and 2K/HD/SD SDI solutions. For more information on Bluefish444, please visit the Bluefish444 website at www.bluefish444.com.

EVS

EVS Broadcast Equipment is a leader in the design of hardware and software for the production and play out of sport, news and TV programs in both live and near live environments. Its innovative Live Slow Motion system revolutionized live broadcasting and its technologies are now widely used in nonlinear editing and High Definition Television across the television broadcast market worldwide.

The company sells its branded products in over 70 countries and is capable of providing services in any region. EVS is headquartered in Belgium and has offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America.

For more information visit www.evs.tv

Tektronix

Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products, solutions and services for the broadcast, communications, computer and semiconductor industries – as well as military/aerospace, consumer electronics, education and a broad range of other industries worldwide. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix has operations in 19 countries worldwide. Cerify provides fully automated verification of the quality of file-based, compressed digital video and audio content prior to transmission or use and is the only system that fully tests all aspects of these media. The Cerify Developer Community provides support to third party companies to facilitate integration of Cerify into customer’s networks.

Development & Services Partners

crazedCoders

Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, crazedCoders uses an agile approach and cutting-edge technologies to deliver solutions very quickly and accurately. crazedCoders is dedicated to delivering high quality, rich internet applications – in your browser, on your desktop, and on your iPhone. For more information, please visit http://www.crazedcoders.com.

GoGrid

GoGrid is a new Cloud Computing hosted, internet service that delivers true “Control in the Cloud.” GoGrid enables system administrators, developers and IT professionals to create, deploy, and control load balance cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control in minutes via a unique web control panel or API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows, multiple Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS) and supports application environments like Ruby on Rails. Free f5 hardware load balancing and other features are intended to give users the control of a familiar server environment with the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. GoGrid is nominated for Best Virtualization Solution for the LinuxWorld 2008′s Product Excellence Awards.  For more information, please visit http://www.gogrid.com.

McGee Digital Media

McGee Digital specializes in High Definition 24p Production and Post.

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Microsoft BizSpark

Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage Startups. BizSpark provides entrepreneurs fast and easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and productions licenses of server products, with no upfront costs and minimal requirements.  For more information, visit http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com.

SAN Solutions
Focused on the entertainment markets, SAN Solutions architects, implements, and supports enterprise class network storage infrastructures that revolutionize the workflow and management of media throughout a entertainment studio. With its proven methodology, SAN Solutions has developed solution sets that cover ingest, production, post-production, media transformation, digital asset management, content delivery, and archive.  For more information, visit http://www.sansolutions.com.