Products Representation
Final Cut Pro
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/
The first choice of professional editors worldwide, Final Cut Pro 7 delivers high-performance digital nonlinear editing, native support for virtually any video format, and facility-class extensibility and interoperability. Its workflow extends through the other Final Cut Studio applications and Final Cut Server for even more power. Whether you’re working solo or collaborating with a team, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control than ever before.
Due to its QuickTime compliant versatility, a wide range of systems can be configured to suit practically every conceivable application. Ranging from off-line cuts only, to Hi-Definition finishing and every other permutation in between, Final Cut Pro handles it with ease.
Video IO hardware
AJA Video Systems
www.aja.com
KONA cards are the finest uncompressed QuickTime I/O cards available anywhere. AJA KONA cards were the first capture cards available for Final Cut Pro on Mac OS X - and that innovation and quality have continued to this day. A powerful Mac Pro or G5 desktop PCIe or PCI/PCI-X system, Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2™ and a KONA card bring you all the quality and function of a full-featured nonlinear editing suite at a fraction of the price. Clarity in sight and sound with uncompromising performance and reliability - that’s the promise of KONA.
Storage Subsystem
Studio Network Solutions EVO (SAN, ISCSI, NAS)
www.studionetworksolutions.com
Introducing Evo
Evo™ – the latest advancement in complete, shared storage solutions for video workgroups. Evo enables everyone on your team to share projects, media and other large files using the most extensive connectivity options available in a single product – including 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel and up to 10 Gb/s iSCSI and NAS.
File-Level and Volume-Level Sharing
Developed specifically for post production workgroups, Evo offers a huge advantage in terms of connectivity and upgradeability – since it integrates a NAS and a SAN into one system, you get the benefits of both file-sharing and volume-locking. By including Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS into a single product, Evo assures that creative workgroups will have the best tool for every aspect of a project.
- 1 Gb/s, 4 Gb/s and up to 10 Gb/s Host Connect
- Up to 8 Direct-connect Fibre Channel Hosts
- Up to 12 TB Per Enclosure
- File Level Access
- Volume Level Access
- User-defined RAID 0, 5 or 10 per volume
- Supports uncompressed HD
- Evo is designed for intensive use with leading applications such as Final Cut Pro, Avid and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Infortrend Fibre Channel, SCSI and iSCSI storage
www.infortrend.com
Infortrend is a leading provider of cost-effective, high performance storage networking solutions. The company’s EonStor RAID subsystems support all storage interfaces including SCSI, Fibre Channel, SATA and SAS.
Infortrend’s full-feathered external RAID subsystems embody the reliable, cost-effective and scalable solutions for your tiered storage. Infortrend also provide powerful software suite – SANWatch, whose user-friendly interfacea and sound administration features can save you from complicated RAID management.
Infrastructure Components
Qlogic Fibre Channel Fabric switches and HBA
From the largest enterprise datacenter to the smallest home business, QLogic offers SAN connectivity to meet the needs of any IT environment. Each SANbox ® SAN switch comes pre-loaded with all the management tools required to easily connect servers to storage, maximizing the return on both your server and storage investments. QLogic HBAs offer best-in-class SAN performance and functionality - plus the convenience of a single driver per OS for all 2Gb and 4Gb HBAs.
ATTO Technology (SCSI and Fibre Channel HBA and Storage software)
ATTO Technology is a storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions provider for data intensive computing environments. ATTO designs and manufactures high- performance products including host and RAID adapters, interface bridges, RAID storage controllers, virtual tape appliances, and management software with storage interface connectivity to SCSI, SATA, iSCSI, SAS and Fibre Channel.
Solutions
Building4Media, Fork, Mac/PC cross platform Broadcast Automation and Playout server systems)
Building4Media is the pioneer in Apple-based broadcast production and master control playout systems and has over 165 TV networks going to air directly off the great Apple broadcast video server, among 250 TV network customers. The company is 11 years old, and has offices in The Netherlands, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Chennai India.
Broadcasting standards are fast changing and hardware black box solutions are too expensive a way to keep up with the pace of the technological advancement. Building4Media provides a software solution for today’s Broadcaster. By using flexible software and and non-proprietary hardware, the result is infinite upgradeability, reliability, and ease of maintenance at a very competitive price.
Custom Hi-Speed Storage Area Network (SAN) for real-time, multi-station concurrent editing and finishing.
Xendata archiving middleware
Xendata middleware totally revolutionize the archiving workflow. The archive systems shows itself as a network shared drive and accessing the archival system is as easy as drag and drop. Technical media Services had been appointed to be a reseller for Xendata lines of products.
XenData Software manages data tape libraries and RAID, creating digital archives that scale from terabytes to petabytes. XenData solutions provide a standard file system interface for universal integration. Leading organizations in broadcast, healthcare, engineering and science use XenData software for archiving and retrieving digital video, medical images and a wide range of scientific and engineering data.
Eyeheight Broadcast Legaliser
Eyeheight was established in London, July l992, initially manufacturing and supplying digital video serialisers and deserialisers to the post production industry. The business expanded quickly and Eyeheight Limited was incorporated in September l993.
Eyeheight is now a major supplier of serial digital video and digital audio equipment to the international broadcast and post production industry. The company’s main directors, Martin Moore and Steve Crocker, have both been active in the video engineering industry for more than l5 years. They were trained by the BBC and have since worked with many major broadcasters and post production companies.
Eyeheight manufactures and sells serial digital video (standard & high definition) and digital audio (AES/EBU & embedded audio) products to broadcasters and post-production companies. This equipment is used in transmission, digital edit suites, telecine, graphics, studios, dubbing, and other associated areas.
Aston CG
Aston is one of the premier brands of the broadcast industry and, to many, the word Aston is actually synonomous with TV graphics. Founded in the 1970’s, Aston was one of the first hardware manufacturers in the industry to address the needs of broadcasters for high quality TV graphics in a way that suited both offline and TV programming.