Digital Fountain's Transporter Fountain Chosen by Matchframe To Save Time and Money Delivering Digital Dailies.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002

Digital Fountain Helps Media and Entertainment Industry Make

Digital Dailies A Reality

Digital Fountain, provider of the fastest, most predictable global data-delivery solutions, today announced that Matchframe Video, a leading post production house, has purchased its flagship Transporter Fountain product to provide accelerated delivery of high-quality digital dailies coast-to-coast in hours. Transporter Fountain allows Matchframe to provide a higher quality of service to existing customers, as well as win new clients that demand the ability to view digital dailies in a timely and cost-effective manner. Additionally, the Transporter Fountain fits seamlessly into Matchframe's existing technology infrastructure and integrates easily with their existing systems.

The Holy Grail for film editors is the ability to review footage in digital format mere hours after it is shot. This would provide them the luxury of immediately correcting any problems while actors are still on location and film sets are still in place, thus making the entire filming more efficient and cost-effective. Once Matchframe receives film reels from clients, it transfers the film into digital files through a process known as telecine. The problem is getting those files back to the client in a timely manner. "Our major studio client no longer wanted to wait 24 hours before receiving dailies," says Jeff Bass of Matchframe. "They wanted to get dailies within eight hours for a project even though the location was across the country."

Matchframe considered many solutions before choosing Digital Fountain -- including courier services -- to deliver digital dailies throughout the country. However, none of the other solutions met all of their requirements. The cost of standard technology options, such as a Virtual Private Network, was too prohibitive -- for both Matchframe and its clients. "Transporter Fountain was the only product that could solve our problem affordably and with complete reliability," says Bass. "We're now sending digital dailies safely and inexpensively over the Internet, and not on an airplane."

Transporter Fountain is designed to save time and add certainty to the delivery of mission-critical data over wide area networks. Because of Digital Fountain's patented Meta-Content(TM) technology, the Transporter Fountain can guarantee fast content delivery, regardless of packet loss, latency and congestion on wide area networks. The product is three to thirty times faster than conventional data delivery systems and contains features that give media and entertainment companies predictability and control over the transport of massive files like digital dailies that are not possible with any other solution.

"Media and entertainment companies have long dreamed of shooting motion pictures and TV series anywhere in the world while still being able to use the very best post production facilities in Los Angeles," said Cliff Meltzer, CEO of Digital Fountain. "To date, however, producers and editors have had difficulty getting digital dailies back to LA for timely review. With Transporter Fountain, we are making daily review of digital dailies practical. For Matchframe, Digital Fountain can securely deliver data three to thirty times faster than traditional methods at a fraction of the cost."

Since Matchframe's client started shooting its latest project in Miami, it has managed to compress two-day cycles into one, shaving many days off the entire post production schedule. By using Transporter Fountain, Matchframe is able to beat their client's expectations and win new business from other customers who will demand the same level of efficiency. "We couldn't have won this business without Transporter Fountain," says Michael Levy, vice president/general manager of Matchframe. "It allowed us to meet the client's tight deadlines and transfer the digital dailies out of our Avid Unity storage systems in Burbank directly to the cutting room in Miami."

Moving forward, Matchframe is installing wide area network connections with more bandwidth so it can send multiple files simultaneously, thus enabling them to transition the company towards an increasingly tapeless environment. In the future, Matchframe plans to deploy Transporter Fountain to service multiple national and international film projects. "We are constantly working to streamline the postproduction process," says Rand Gladden, president of Matchframe. "Transporter Fountain fits well into our "smarter post" workflow by striking a balance between cost and efficiency."

About Digital Fountain

Digital Fountain provides the fastest, most predictable global data-delivery solutions. The company's technology allows customers to realize dramatically increased data transfer speeds and predictable data delivery times resulting in significant savings in both time and expenditures. Digital Fountain's products are based on the company's patented Meta-Content(TM) technology, a networking innovation that dramatically simplifies the processes required to completely and perfectly deliver data over any network, regardless of impairments like packet loss and delay. Digital Fountain products are currently being used by a who's who of media, technology, oil & gas, retail firms and government agencies to transport their mission critical files. For more information call 510/284-1400, email [e-mail] or visit www.digitalfountain.com.

About Matchframe

Matchframe is a full-service post production facility offering a wide range of high-definition and standard definition in-house services, including telecine, linear and non-linear on-line editing, audio sweetening, graphics and duplication. The company supports a prestigious Avid rental division that provides portable Avid editing packages clients can use at their own locations. Throughout its eighteen-plus years of operation, Matchframe has distinguished itself through innovation, efficiency and a commitment to superior service. Matchframe also operates a second location at 212 N. Evergreen Ave in the Toluca Lake-area of Burbank. The Evergreen facility includes production offices and additional Avid edit suites. Matchframe's main facility is located at 610 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank CA 91505. Phone: [phone]. Fax: [phone].

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