R!OT – Santa Monica and Encore – Hollywood Join the List of RaveHD™ Users

SpectSoft LLC., a leading provider of uncompressed video solutions on the Linux® platform, welcomes both R!OT-Santa Monica and Encore-Hollywood to the list of studios putting RaveHD to work in their pipeline.

Oakdale, CA (PRWEB) July 12, 2006 --SpectSoft LLC., a leading provider of uncompressed video solutions on the Linux® platform, welcomes both R!OT-Santa Monica and Encore-Hollywood to the list of studios putting RaveHD to work in their pipeline.

RaveHD 2.0, which made it's debut at NAB in April will begin to replace many of the workflow functions that other DDR and VTR systems were providing. “With the capability to work in an uncompressed 4:4:4 RGB format in real-time and offering full VTR emulation, SR decks can now be replaced with less expensive solutions like RaveHD,” states Ramona Howard, President of SpectSoft. “And with support for Davinci, Quantel, Avid, FCP and Discreet products, studios now are looking at RaveHD as a viable VTR replacement.”

Utilizing commodity hardware, RaveHD systems prices start at $19,995 and support from 3TB to 18TB of local storage in a SATA array configuration and offers one of the highest quality video solutions on the market today, addressing many concerns seen by other systems. RaveHD supports uncompressed SD-SMPTE 259M, HD-SMPTE 292M, Dual Link HD(4:4:4)- SMPTE 372M and 2K HSDL for both capture and playback in a single system as well as hardware accelerated upconverting, downconverting and cross-converting. The RaveHD systems feature integrated RS-422 hardware that allows for both slave and master control, LTC support and unlimited scalability with dual 10/100/1000 gigabit Ethernet in addition to features like frame oriented, standard file system storage and centralized database asset tracking, RP188 (embedded timecode), Varicam flagging support, Conform, and a programmable cadence engine. RaveHD is natively frame-based but does offer some built-in tools for those working with Quicktimes and will soon offer native QT support.

RaveHD is in use by studios worldwide and has played an integral role in the making of films such as Starship Troopers 2, Sin City, Ice Age 2 and many others. RaveHD continues to compliment the workflow not compete with and is the only product of it's kind to supply it's entire source code to it's clients for integration.

About SpectSoft - SpectSoft, LLC
The brainchild of a mother and son team, was founded in 1997 to serve the film, media, and broadcast industries. Since it's inception, SpectSoft has worked on technical projects with some of the industries biggest and brightest companies like Dreamworks Animation (Glendale, CA), Tippett Studio (Berkeley, CA) and The Orphanage (SF, CA.) which continue to push the envelope and further the state of the art in the film pipeline process. Throughout the years, SpectSoft has been able to maintain a relatively small footprint and the family values and ownership that make it so unique. For further information, please see www.spectsoft.com.

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