DIGITAL RAPIDS

Digital Rapids will be showcasing a number of media capture, encoding and transcoding products for high definition workflows at NAB2007.

The format-agile StreamZHD media encoding server expands the powerful and flexible features of Digital Rapids’ acclaimed StreamZ into the high definition domain, offering multi-format, top-quality, high-performance HD/SD content ingest, encoding, transcoding and streaming for applications including VOD, IPTV, archive and dailies. Hardware-based video pre-processing provides optimal quality, and supported formats include VC-1, WM9, AVC/H.264, MPEG-4, Flash, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, QuickTime, Real, AVI and more.

Stream Transcode Manager offers enterprise-level distributed media transcoding for high-volume, multi-format content workflows. The Stream Transcode Manager software provides centralized management, automation and exceptional load balancing intelligence for large transcoding jobs involving many media files, increasing production volume while reducing the costs associated with manual management and monitoring. A new version will be showcased, with new features including extended database integration, enhanced failover capabilities and more.