Archive for January 18th, 2007

18 January 2006, Passfield, UK: UK Digital Rapids dealer ERA has completed an order from Ascent Media Group Limited (www.ascentmedia.co.uk) for Digital Rapids‘ StreamZHD format-flexible HD/SD media encoding system, which has been installed at Ascent Media‘s Wardour Street premises situated in London‘s Soho district. StreamZHD is being used for a number of encoding applications ranging from low bit-rate proxy files up to D-Cinema in 1080 HD MPEG-2.

Additionally, StreamZHD is also used for large encoding projects such as Video on Demand (VOD) for major cable providers, back catalogue content for publication and PAL DV of film rolls for sound studios across Europe. Material that is urgently required in the U.S. can be encoded and sent within a short turn around time. more

NEW YORK–PostWorks, New York (www.pwny.com), the East Coast’s most comprehensive digital motion picture and HD post-production facility, today detailed its work on a record number of films selected for the annual Sundance Film Festival which begins today in Park City, Utah. Members of PostWorks’ staff made significant lab, picture and/or sound post-production contributions to the narrative feature films “Broken English,” “Bugmaster,” “Dedication,” “Delirious,” “Great World of Sound,” “Never Forever,” “On the Road with Judas,” “Padre Nuestro,” “Snow Angels,” “The Ten,” and “Waitress.” more