Leading Post-Production Facility and Leading Content Delivery Network to Use Industry’s Fastest Video Encoding Products for HD and SD Encoding Applications
AMSTERDAM, September 7 - Kulabyte, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, today announced that Rough House Editorial, one of the industry’s leading post-production firms, has chosen the recently-launched Kulabyte Express solutions for its video encoding services. San Francisco-based Rough House provides high-end editing, animation, and graphics services for clients - in both HD and SD formats - and will integrate Kulabyte Express into their encoding workflow. Rough House Editorial’s current clients include AMD, Cisco Systems, Google, Microsoft, Panasonic, Polycom and Symantec.
Kulabyte and CDNetworks, the leading content delivery network (CDN) provider for the Asia-Pacific region, have also announced that CDNetworks is in discussions with Kulabyte to represent and distribute the Kulabyte Express products throughout Korea and the Asia-Pacific region. CDNetworks targets customers in the streaming and user-generated content markets.
“The post world has become a much faster turn-around market, even for HD, and we believe that Kulabyte has provided a product that is almost miraculous in its ability to encode at blazing speeds with high visual integrity,” said Kenji Hayashi, Executive Producer of the Compression Group, a multimedia division of Rough House Editorial. “Whether for DVD encoding, online edits, or animation sequences, there are a wide variety of applications for which Kulabyte Express is appropriate, and we expect that our clients will see a noticeable difference in the efficiency and quality of our encoding projects.”
The Kulabyte Express series of products are designed to meet the demanding needs of multiple market segments, from dual-core laptop users to large multi-server enterprise networks. Kulabyte Express provides customers with options to customize encoding and transcoding solutions for their specific needs, without having to purchase superfluous features. “We evaluated the speed and qualities of the Kulabyte Express solutions and they have a clear advantage in their unique process, delivering many times the speed, and with improved video qualities over the other solutions we tested”, said Rochelle Hugh, the manager of Global Marketing for CDNetworks. “We look forward to introducing our enterprise-level customers to a new solution in encoding that delivers higher productivity and increased quality.”
“CDNetworks and Rough House have been instrumental in providing us with insight into today’s post-production and CDN markets. Both teams evaluated the beta versions of Kulabyte Express and provided extensive input,” said Chris Gottschalk, CTO of Kulabyte. “We are pleased to be working with industry-leading firms to deliver some of the industry’s leading content producers and providers with the fastest, highest-quality encoding processes possible.”
Kulabyte Express products can be ordered over the phone at +1.512.795.4228 or at . The entire Kulabyte Express Series will be available for order at IBC 2007 in Booth 6.111, Hall 6 of the RAI Convention Center, on September 7th in Amsterdam.