CineForm announces Connect HD for high-performance HD video editing.CineForm, Inc. has announced Connect HD, a high-performance high-definition (HD) accelerator for Microsoft Windows-based video-editing applications. CineForm is also announcing that the first video editing application to be bundled with Connect HD is the highly acclaimed Vegas 4.0 software from Sony Media Software, the combination of which forms a comprehensive solution for editing HD video. Connect HD will be available for purchase stand alone, or as a bundle that includes Vegas 4.0 software. Connect HD, together with the award-winning Aspect HD--already shipping, are the industry's only total editing solutions for HDV-formatted video. Connect HD's editing performance is based on the same patent-pending video-processing technology that powers its real-time sibling, Aspect HD. The technology is built on CineForm's visually-lossless high-definition editing codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, , CFHD, which provides unmatched performance and visual quality for high- definition post-production applications. Connect HD maintains the identical AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. file format used in Aspect HD, which guarantees compatibility with industry-leading video editing applications like Sony's Vegas software, as well as other Windows AVI-compatible applications including Adobe After Effects and Windows Media Player Digital jukebox software for Windows from Microsoft that plays a variety of audio, video and streaming formats including MP3, WMA, CD audio and MIDI. Starting with Version 6.2 in 1999, the Windows Media Rights Manager was added for securing copyrighted content. . In addition, Connect HD includes HDLink, CineForm's I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output software that connects PCs with HDV-compatible camcorders and DVHS DVHS Delaware Valley High School (Milford, PA) DVHS Deer Valley High School (Phoenix, AZ) DVHS Deer Valley High School (Antioch, CA) decks. Aspect HD, for high-end video professionals, includes all the technology in Connect HD, and adds CineForm's real-time video pipeline which provides dozens of real-time transitions, color effects, graphic overlays, motion, and more, all within Adobe Premiere. "CineForm is again leading the way in the HD video post-production market," said David Taylor, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CineForm, Inc. "Connect HD extends CineForm technology by providing accelerated HD performance within many Windows-based video applications. When combined with Vegas 4.0 software from Sony Media Software, the resulting performance and quality of high-definition video editing is stunning." "The HD video acceleration CineForm has achieved with Connect HD and Vegas 4.0 software is extraordinary," said Brad Reinke, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Sony Pictures Digital Sony Pictures Digital, first known as Columbia TriStar Interactive, then Sony Pictures Interactive Network (or SPiN), is known as the digital website interactive creator for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) that was established in 1997. , Media Software group. "With Connect HD operating totally transparently, all the familiar and powerful features and performance of Vegas 4.0 software work precisely as they always have, but now you're editing with the breathtaking quality of HD. The result is a complete post-production solution based on Vegas 4.0 software for video professionals that is absolutely breakthrough." The key to Connect HD's unmatched editing performance is CineForm's innovative patent-pending technologies including a proprietary and symmetric, yet visually lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. video codec. After editing, HD video is easily exported to a wide variety of HD, SD and web distribution formats. CineForm's high-performance HD editing solutions enable wide adoption of HD in the independent film, professional videography vid·e·og·ra·phy n. The art or practice of using a video camera. vid  e·og , corporate and television markets by providing real-time, multi-stream video editing on today's fast PCs. Connect HD is available from CineForm and select resellers beginning January 19th, 2004 and is available in two versions: Connect HD stand alone for the suggested retail price of $499 or as a bundle that includes Vegas software from Sony Media Software for $799. |
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