Agnew Tech-II Launches Digital Video Lab.Business Editors WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2001 Agnew Tech-II, a foreign language services company located in Westlake Village, today announced the completion of an intricate digital video project, highlighting the company's new capabilities in the production of digital video technology. Agnew Tech-II completed the project for Total Spectrum Advertising, who needed Agnew Tech to translate a 17-minute biohazard bi·o·haz·ard n. 1. A biological agent, such as a virus or a condition that constitutes a threat to humans, especially in biological research or experimentation. 2. safety video into Malay and Cambodian. The original English version included narration and on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. titling, both of which needed to be replaced with the relevant Malay and Cambodian voiceover and translations. Agnew Tech utilized its new, state-of-the-art digital recording and production lab to complete the project. For Agnew Tech, the project symbolizes the growing need of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, companies to train and instruct non-English speaking workers. In one of the most diverse areas of the country, training videos and instructional manuals must be available in multiple languages so that companies can have access to an extremely multinational job market. "Our new digital editing and production equipment allows us to do just about anything with any recording," said Agnew Tech-II President Irene Agnew. "Because of Southern California's diversity, more and more of our clients want to transfer their training and promotional videos into multiple languages with various types of titling and graphics. Since Agnew Tech-II has both language experts and digital recording and production capability, we can handle every aspect of our clients' needs without outsourcing or subcontracting. We manage every aspect of a job on-site." Agnew Tech's increased digital video capability results from the company's investment in new technologies and equipment. The Agnew Tech lab now features a Final Cut Pro Studio with and Aurora Igniter Analog Capture Card, Component Video, a DVD burner, DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro is a high-end software tool published by Apple to allow users to create DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into Software for DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. production and editing and an NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. monitor. "Our digital equipment is the best around," said Agnew Tech-II Information Technology Manager Paul Kiskis. "We can create DVD menus, subtitling, voiceover; any digital services that our clients need, we can do right here." Founded in 1986, Agnew Tech-II is an industry leader in a broad array of translation services such as technical document translation, digital language recording, software localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , desktop publishing and Web site design. Agnew Tech-II's clients include Ford Motor Co., Health Net, Raytheon, Disney, Nikken, Visteon, Toro Toro may refer to:
For more information about Agnew Tech-II's services, visit www.agnew.com, send e-mail to agnewi@agnew.com, or call 805/494-3999. |
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