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 | Solana Beach, Calif., April 10, 2008 – CineForm®, Inc. today announced that it has collaborated with Thomson to develop a real-time post-production workflow for the Thomson Grass Valley™ Infinity™ Digital Media Camcorder that preserves the 10-bit precision of the camera’s recorded JPEG2000 files. CineForm’s new software, called the JPEG2000 Play Module for Infinity, will allow re-wrapping of Infinity MXF files to AVI or QuickTime files for preview playback on both Windows and Mac. When combined with CineForm’s Neo HD or Prospect HD software, Infinity files can be converted in real-time to 10-bit CineForm Intermediate files which are cross-platform compatible with many post-production tools including Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and others. Read the entire release.... |
| Solana Beach, Calif., March 26, 2008 – CineForm®, Inc. today announced that Prospect 4K™ and Neo 4K™, the newest members of its post-production software family, are now shipping. Both products quadruple the image resolution supported by the online compressed digital intermediate (DI) workflow pioneered by CineForm up to 4K (4096 x 4096) pixels. Neo 4K is compatible with virtually all Windows AVI or QuickTime applications that support image resolutions up to 4K. Prospect 4K includes CineForm’s real-time video processing engine optimized for Adobe Premiere® Pro on Windows, which enables the industry’s first real-time multi-stream 4K editing workflow. Both products include a license to CineForm’s Mac codec for cross-platform HD/2K/4K compatibility. Read the entire release.... |
 | Montreal, March 10, 2008. With StreamPix3 and the CineForm codec, you can now record directly to your laptop disk drive or USB memory stick in real time at 1920 x 1080 x 30 fps x 12 bits raw bayer. Want to record from single or 2 HDTV cameras simultaneously without spending tens of thousands of dollars? Using StreamPix3 and the new support for the CineForm codec, you can record directly on a 2.4ghz CPU laptop either to the hard disk or even to a USB memory stick connected to the laptop. If your requirement is for recording from 2 HDTV cameras, then use StreamPix 4 with a Quad Core desktop and the CineForm codec to record directly to disk. Read the entire press release.... Streampix 3 brochure.... |
| Montreal, January 14, 2008. NorPix announces support for the high-performance CineForm codec, now offered in both its StreamPix image acquisition software and the Hermes API. The CineForm codec provides high compression in real-time during live acquisition of image streams, with no degradation of Bayer pattern. The result is movie-quality compression with high quality color rendering on decompression for playback. Read the entire release.... |
| December 5, 2007 - Munich and Solana Beach - IRIDAS and CineForm®, Inc. have established a strategic cooperation to advance compressed workflow technologies for movie acquisition and postproduction. IRIDAS has incorporated support for the CineForm RAW™ and CineForm Intermediate™ file formats into all its products, including FrameCycler, the industry standard for postproduction playback since 2001, and SpeedGrade, the company's non-destructive color correction application family. CineForm has integrated the SpeedGrade .Look file format in the CineForm metadata architecture. For filmmakers, this means substantially leaner production and postproduction workflows with non-destructive grading embedded as metadata. Read the entire release.... |
| September 19, 2007 – CineForm®, Inc. today announced that HD and 2K versions of its CineForm Intermediate™ compression technologies have been selected by Cinemeta, Ltd, for source acquisition, storage, and digital projection for Cinemeta’s 300-theater digital cinema rollout that begins in India in 4Q07. CineForm is also announcing that it has developed a secure version of its compression technology called CineForm Secure™ based on 128-bit AES security encryption which Cinemeta is using for an additional layer of content protection.. Read the entire release.... |
| August 30, 2007 - Munich, Germany – WEISSCAM is announcing that for its new RAW digital recorder device, it has begun cooperation with Wafian Corp and CineForm® ,Inc., to create a mountable and stand alone recorder for uncompressed and compressed WEISSCAM RAW files over single- and dual-link HD-SDI with a resolution up to 2048 horizontal pixels (2K). Read the entire release.... |
| August 28, 2007 - CineForm®, Inc. today announced that QuickTime™ versions of its HD and 2K CineForm Intermediate™ codecs are shipping in production for Intel-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS X 10.4 or later. CineForm QuickTime movie files are now compatible on both Windows and Mac OS X computers. CineForm QuickTime files eliminate the need for massively large DPX files as a common exchange format between platforms, thus enabling the industry’s first practical cross-platform and cross-application post-production workflow. CineForm is also offering a free decoder for Intel-based Macs called Neo Player Mac. Read the entire release.... |
| April 12, 2007 - CineForm®, Inc. today announced a new product family called NEO that supports high-resolution HD and 2K media source acquisition and online editing for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. CineForm is also announcing that new versions of its existing products – Aspect HD™ v5, Prospect HD™ v3, and Prospect 2K™ v3 - will all gain new features, including expanded support for HD-SDI acquisition and expanded support for cross-platform QuickTime™ features. As part of its expanding product lineup, CineForm is also announcing new lower pricing for its Prospect HD and Prospect 2K family of products. Read the entire release.... |
| April 4, 2007 - CineForm®, Inc. announced today that its CineForm Intermediate™ codec family now supports a 12-bit RGB format called CineForm 444™, offering spatial resolutions up to 2048 x 2048 pixels. Further, CineForm’s Windows-based Prospect 2K™ editing software for Adobe® Premiere® Pro now supports real-time, multi-stream editing of CineForm 444 content on its editing timeline. A version of CineForm 444 compatible with Intel-based Mac OS X QuickTime™ video applications will be released in the near future. Read the entire release.... |
| March 12, 2007 – CineForm®, Inc. announced today that all of its products now include special software support for the unique features offered in Sony’s HVR-V1U HDV camcorder and its companion HVR-DR60 hard-disk recording unit, including 24p editing modes and direct-to-disk recording from its uncompressed HDMI output. CineForm’s real-time inverse telecine software offers independent filmmakers, producers, and event videographers the ability to edit material recorded using either of the HVR-V1U’s 24p modes as a true 24p project. Further, the uncompressed HDMI output from the HVR-V1U may be recorded direct-to-disk on location into professional-quality CineForm Intermediate™ files, bypassing the highly-compressed HDV tape format. Read the entire release.... |
| March 6, 2007 – CineForm®, Inc. announced today that it has released an unrestricted public beta of its CineForm Intermediate™ software codec for Intel-based Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” systems running Apple’s Final Cut Pro. CineForm Intermediate is now offered as an extremely high-quality QuickTime™ movie running under Mac OS X. These QuickTime movie files offer 10 bits of arithmetic precision with spatial resolution up to 2K (2048 x 2048). Intended for Professional and Prosumer applications that demand high visual fidelity without the need for specialized hardware, CineForm Intermediate QuickTime files are visually identical to the .AVI files CineForm has supported on the Windows platform for many years. Further, CineForm QuickTime movie files are completely cross-platform (Windows or Mac) compatible, and may be created and played on either platform. Read the entire release.... |
| February 28, 2007 – CineForm®, Inc. announced today that all of its software products now support direct-to-disk recording into professional-quality CineForm Intermediate™ files from HDMI video sources using the Intensity card from Blackmagic Design Inc. Recorded files are immediately available for playback and/or editing on Windows (and soon MacOS) computers using existing CineForm post-production software. Supported HDMI video input sources are 1080i/p and 720p.Read the entire release.... |
| November 14, 2006 –CineForm®, Inc. and Wafian™ Corporation today announced that Xbox 360™, the videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft, has selected the Wafian HR-1 direct-to-disk recorder running CineForm Intermediate™ image processing software as part of its production workflow to bring standard and high-definition TV shows and movies to Xbox Live® Marketplace in the U.S. Read the entire release.... |
| November 1, 2006 –Silicon Imaging, with help from CineForm® and Intel Corporation, today unleashed a 2K Digital Cinema camera system set to revolutionize movie and HD production. The Silicon Imaging SI-2K will shoot footage directly to disk, at either 1920x1080P HD or 2048x1152 cinema resolutions running on motherboards integrated into the camera or on laptop computers powered by Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors. Captured footage is instantly editable using CineForm’s Prospect 2K™ real-time visualization and colorization software. Afterwards finished projects can be directly encoded for theatrical distribution to digital cinemas or on-demand Internet download. Read the entire release.... |
| April 17th, 2006 - Silicon Imaging, Inc. has unveiled the revolutionary SI-1920HDVR portable IT-integrated 10-bit digital cinema camera with direct-to-disk recording and Adobe Production Studio integration. The SI-1920HDVR is a 2/3” 1920x1080P camera recording to a new version of CineForm’s Visually Perfect® wavelet codec called CineForm RAW™. It delivers unprecedented image quality, 10 f-stop dynamic range, a 7” LCD touchscreen interface, gigabit connectivity, battery-powered operation, and up to 4-hours of continuous shooting on its hot-swap 160GB notebook hard drive. Read the entire release.... |
| March 21, 2006 – CineForm, Inc. and Wafian Corporation today are announcing comprehensive acquisition and editing support for Canon’s XL H1 HD camcorder, including all of its special operating modes and features such as 24Frame and 30Frame.
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| November 15, 2005 – CineForm, Inc. and Wafian Corporation today are announcing the Wafian HR-1, the first product to result from technology and marketing collaboration between the companies. The Wafian HR-1 is a direct-to-disk high-definition video recorder, designed and manufactured by Wafian Corporation. The HR-1 records up to 18 hours of 10-bit high-definition video over HD-SDI into the Visually Perfect™ CineForm Intermediate™ format. Offering the form factor of a small rack-mountable VTR, the HR-1 is a perfect accessory for on-set and on-location acquisition for film and video productions. Read the entire release.... |
| August 2, 2005 – CineForm, Inc. today is announcing that a beta version of its 10-bit visually lossless compressed digital intermediate software, Prospect 2K, working seamlessly within Adobe® Premiere® Pro, was used throughout the post-production process to finish the 3D animated feature, “Santa’s Polar Blast”. This project was a re-edit from the original large format (IMAX) feature and represents the first time a fully animated 3D (right eye, left eye) feature used a compressed digital intermediate format in 2048 x 1500 resolution. Read the entire release.... |
| July 12, 2005 - CARLSBAD, CA, June 12, 2005 – CineForm, Inc. today is announcing that version 3.2 of Aspect HD is now available. Version 3.2 supports Redrock Microsystems’ innovative M2 35mm lens adapter, plus adds numerous enhancements to its CineForm Intermediate™ post-production codec technology to deliver uncompromised visual quality to media professionals. Further, CineForm and Redrock Microsystems announced a collaborative partnership that leverages the product strengths of each company to offer improved post-production workflows for filmmakers using the new HDV recording format. Read the entire release.... |
| June 6, 2005 - CineForm, Inc. today is announcing that new versions of its market-leading HDV™ software editing products are the first to offer special support for the progressive CineFrame™ modes in Sony’s HDR-FX1 and HVR-Z1 HDV camcorders. Both Aspect HD (v3.1) for Adobe® Premiere® Pro and Connect HD (v1.7) can create a 24-frame progressive output file while ingesting footage shot in Sony’s CineFrame modes. Read the entire release.... |
 | April 4, 2005 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that dual AMD Opteron™ processor-based workstations from BOXX Technologies were used exclusively with CineForm’s Prospect HD™ for Adobe® Premiere® Pro throughout the post-production process to finish the feature film “Dust To Glory” now playing in theaters. Read the entire release.... |
| March 1, 2005 – CineForm, Inc. today is announcing that version 3.0 of its award-winning Aspect HD™ software, which supports the recently-announced Adobe® Premiere® Pro HDV plug-in, will be shipping next week. Adobe previously licensed portions of CineForm Intermediate™ software technologies that integrate HDV-resolution editing support within Adobe Premiere Pro for users of the expanding class of HDV camcorders. Read the entire release.... |
| January 24, 2005 – CineForm, Inc. today is announcing that its 10-bit visually lossless compressed Digital Intermediate software, Prospect HD, working seamlessly within Adobe® Premiere Pro®, was used throughout the post-production process to finish the feature film “Dust to Glory”. The “Dust to Glory” project represents the first time a feature film intended for broad theatrical release has taken the offline EDL and conformed using a compressed Digital Intermediate format throughout the online workflow, including real-time editing, color correction and final film out. Read the entire release.... |
| November 29, 2004 - CineForm, Inc. today is announcing that version 2.5 of its award-winning Aspect HD™ for Adobe® Premiere® Pro software will be shipping imminently at a new price of $499, and also supports Sony's new HDR-FX1 HDV camcorder. Read the entire release.... |
 | November 10, 2004 - Sony Media Software announces special promotional pricing (US $149.95) on CineForm’s Connect HD application software for new and existing users of Sony’s award-winning Vegas 5 video and audio editing software. Read the entire release.... |
| April 19, 2004 - CineForm Announces Prospect HD Delivering Real-Time HD Post-Production with 10-Bit Quality and HD-SDI Support Read the entire release.... |
| April 19, 2004 – CineForm Releases Aspect HD 2.2 for Adobe Premiere Pro with Support for All HDV Resolutions Read the entire release.... |
 | April 19, 2004 - Microsoft Announces Breakthrough High-Definition Video Production Solutions for Windows XP Read the entire release.... |
 | April 19, 2004 – BOXX Unveils HD [pro] RT Real-Time HD Editing System at NAB 2004 Read the entire release.... |
 | April 19, 2004 - JVC Announces Increased Support From CineForm for Its Affordable HD Mission Read the entire release.... |
| March 25, 2004 - BOXX Announces HDV [pro] With CineForm's Aspect HD for Affordable Real-Time HD Video Editing Read the entire release.... |
| February 4, 2003 - Aspect HD, CineForm's Real-Time High-Definition Video Engine, Now Shipping for Adobe Premiere Pro Read the entire release.... |
| December 11, 2003 - CineForm Announces Connect HD™ For High-Performance HD Video Editing Read the entire release.... |
 | October 16, 2003 - UC San Diego Connect Announces Most Innovative New Product (MIP) Award Finalists Read the entire release... |
| September 11, 2003 - CineForm's Breakthrough Product, Aspect HD™ Now Shipping Form Adobe® Premiere® 6.5 Read the entire release... |
| July 9, 2003 - Aspect HD, CineForm's Real-Time High-Definition Video Engine, To Support Adobe Premiere Pro Read the entire release... |
| April 7, 2003 - JVC Introduces Ground-Breaking Hand-Held Professional HD Camcorder Read the release... |
