September 3, 2008 – Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the latest generation of viewing devices — has released a powerful new version of the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager enterprise-class live encoder management software. more

Leading video encoding specialist Moving Media is moving to a new specially expanded studio in Woodland Hills Los Angeles on September 1st 2008. The existing state-of-the-art facilities for encoding from tape to file and transcoding of existing digital assets, will be boosted by the addition of several new video capture / encode bays, and a dramatically expanded machine inventory that includes legacy SONY U-Matic formats, JVC SVHS, and Pioneer Laserdisc. more

August 19, 2008 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the latest generation of viewing devices — is one of the key enablers of the unprecedented live Internet coverage of the Summer Games currently being enjoyed by U.S. audiences.

Over 2200 hours of video will be streamed live on the Internet at NBCOlympics.com, powered by Digital Rapids’ encoding and streaming systems. The unprecedented scale of NBC Universal’s online coverage created new challenges going far beyond typical streaming scenarios. more

SANTA MONICA, CALIF.-POP Sound recently completed audio restoration work for Paramount Home Entertainment’s highly anticipated release of The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration DVD Collection on DVD and Blu-ray. The five-disc DVD and four-disc Blu-ray collections include fully restored versions of The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II, as well as a newly remastered version of The Godfather, Part III. Widely considered among the greatest movies ever made, the films were given sparkling, all-new 5.1 surround sound mixes. more

August 12, 2008 — Passfield, UK: Digital Rapids — a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and film content to the latest generation of viewing devices — will be bringing the excitement and momentum of its worldwide Summer Games involvement to the annual IBC Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam, with the IBC debuts of new and enhanced products in stand # 7.G41. Digital Rapids systems will also power the encoding of content for the IBC TV News website and mobile delivery. more

Ribbit Films, the leader in high-def green screen motion stock footage, is observing a strong shift towards video and motion formats in internet advertising. The marriage of video with interactivity poses as a great opportunity for advertisers to reach web surfing consumers in a new and effective way. more

August 5, 2008 - Hong Kong: Digital Rapids has been chosen by China Central Television’s CCTV.com to provide encoding, streaming and management systems to power live streaming of the 2008 Olympic Games to Internet audiences in China. The announcement was made today by Digital Rapids and CCTV.com. more

NewBlueFX Bursts into Mac Market with Video Special Effects and Transitions for Apple Final Cut Pro

LA JOLLA, CA (August 4, 2008) – NewBlue, Inc. today continued its widening rollout of video effects plugins by unveiling a host of new offerings for Apple Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. Users of this popular video editing software for Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers can now enjoy 893 presets and 71 effects plug-ins encompassed in 7 distinct and competitively-priced NewBlueFX plug-in collections, designed to enhance the video editing experience. The release follows the company’s progressive launch of video fx plugins for the Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress Pro, Avid Liquid, Corel VideoStudio, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Thomson Grass Valley Edius product lines. more

July 29, 2008 — Passfield, UK: Digital Rapids – Passfield, UK: Digital Rapids — a leading developer of scalable solutions for media ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming and delivery — announced today that broadcast automation specialist Pebble Beach Systems has introduced a new automation module enabling advanced control of Digital Rapids’ award-winning StreamZ ingest and encoding systems through Pebble Beach’s automation solutions. more

Digital Content Producer continues our in-depth look of Flash vs. Silverlight–this time in a free Digital Content Producer Webcast presentation from contributor Jan Ozer.

This event will take place at 2pm Eastern, Thursday, July 24, 2008. If you’d like to attend register here.

This case study-based webcast looks at applications of Flash and Silverlight to illustrate the capabilities and creative workflows applicable to each. more