First Interactive Digital Dialogue Between Filmmakers and Audience Launched At International Student Film Festival.Business/Technology Editors CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Vsoft's innovative video software solution enables real-time collaboration on content and viewer comments for increased creativity and workflow productivity Vsoft, a leading innovator in digital video software solutions, deployed its VideoClick(TM) product suite as an integral part of this year's prestigious International Student Film Festival, held this month in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company's comprehensive product for video management, distribution and workgroup collaboration enables real-time collaboration on broadcast-quality video between all partners involved in film or video clip A short video presentation. production. VideoClick was used at the festival to promote a live and dynamic dialogue between the audience and filmmakers. VideoClick@Work(TM) interactive viewing workstations were set-up at the Tel-Aviv Cinemateque square, and for the first time, critics and other viewers were able to review films shown at the festival and simultaneously add their text-based comments directly to the film on a frame-by-frame basis. In addition, a special "interactive living room" demonstrating the VideoClick@Home(TM) software operating on a TV set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. was used to exhibit the variety of personal video services that will soon be available to every home viewer. A symposium on interactive film was held during the festival with the participation of filmmakers, directors and researchers of digital media who analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. the relationships between film and computer games, and between interactive cinema and television. Vsoft displayed the inherent distribution, management and interactive qualities of VideoClick as part of this discussion. Eyal Rom, the company's VP of Worldwide Sales, said: "Our solution enables the production of video and film to proceed at a brisk Brisk as a proper name may refer to:
adj. Serving to save time through an efficient method or a shorter route; expeditious. time digital environment, where there is no need to copy cassettes, make exterior notes or pass materials up and down the chain of command. The creative and collaborative process can proceed with simultaneous and maximum interactivity amongst all partners in the production team and beyond. The scope of VideoClick is vast, from feature film creation to news broadcasts through advertising and distance learning covering all facets from content creation to personal video services." The festival, now in its eighth year, is an official event of the International Union of Film Schools (CILECT) and is widely recognized as one of the three foremost festivals of its kind in the world. Films from over seventy schools in forty-five countries were showcased at this year's event, which was sponsored in part by Vsoft. About Vsoft With corporate headquarters in Israel, Vsoft (www.vsoft.com) develops and markets an innovative family of software products for Video on Demand and digital video distribution and management. Vsoft's unique multi-disciplinary expertise in the management and manipulation of digital video streams, MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). video and image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished secures its leading technological position in the world of digital video. Vsoft, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary located in Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New , supports the company's sales and marketing efforts in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . |
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