CINEMA CRAFT usa – Proud Silver Sponsor of Blu-Tech Summit 2011
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CINEMA CRAFT usa – Proud Participating Sponsor of Blu-Con 2010
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Henninger Media Services, the largest production/post-production company in the Mid-Atlantic region, acquires premiere Blu-ray encoding equipment in order to produce hollywood-quality blu-ray discs for their clients. Clients include National Geographic Films, Discovery Networks and various documentary filmmakers.

June 26, 2010 — Henninger Media Services, Inc. ("HMS") is the first production/post-production company in the Mid-Atlantic region to offer Hollywood-quality Blu-ray encoding services using the Cinema Craft High-Definition AVC encoder ("CC-HDe"). After thorough research, and over six months of testing and analysis, HMS’ engineering and DVD/Blu-ray development teams drew an undisputed conclusion. "After all of the technical scrutiny, it came down to a side-by-side picture comparison. The encoded media generated by the CC-HDe revealed a clearly superior picture quality above the other encoders assessed," says HMS’ Director of Engineering, Sam Crawford. "The encoded material was virtually identical to the original, and the speed at which it worked was unmatched."   more...

CC-HDe Encoder Plus DoStudio Authoring Deliver Pristine Picture Quality, Professional BD Features

Alexandria, VA and Newport Beach, CA - NetBlender and CINEMA CRAFT USA announced today the immediate availability of a new high-end Blu-ray solution that combines the award-winning CC-HDe Encoder with NetBlender's proven, professional DoStudio Authoring system. The new solution, called CC-HDe/a, satisfies the high-end Compression and Authoring (C&A) market's need for pristine, highly-configurable Blu-ray compression and full spec, cost-effective and user-friendly Blu-ray authoring. CC-HDe/a is available exclusively through CINEMA CRAFT USA.

"A comparable solution from other vendors would have cost more than $100,000 in license fees, required weeks in dedicated authoring training and would have meant lengthy production cycles. The CC-HDe/a solution from CINEMA CRAFT USA saves me more than 50% in upfront cost, delivers the fastest and most importantly, the highest quality AVC encoding for Blu-ray. And now, combined with the professional authoring features and ease-of-use DoStudio, this bundle really delivers the end-to-end package," said Tony Laughton, CEO, PROMO SCAPE-Melbourne, Australia.

"This customer-driven solution changes the economics of Blu-ray, and not a moment too soon. Unlike DVD, Blu-ray faces several home video competitors. If Blu-ray is to take its rightful place as the dominant home entertainment format, Blu-ray disc prices have to come down. The only way that will happen is if content creators and the post-production community that serves them have access to cost-effective solutions that reduce production cost and time, and most importantly without compromising high quality. That's what CC-HDe/a is all about," said, Ray Wallick, President, CINEMA CRAFT USA.

"Our partnership with CINEMA CRAFT represents the next step in NetBlender's mission to cut the drama out of Blu-ray production. Since the launch of DoStudio Authoring in 2008, it has been used to author hundreds of mass-replicated titles worldwide, increasing the supply of BDs and bringing their shelf-price closer to DVD. With DoStudio Workflow Suite, announced at NAB 2009, we eliminated the Blu-ray-compliant encoding bottleneck for the independent post production and corporate markets. This partnership with CINEMA CRAFT offers high-end and mid-level C&A facilities a "right-priced," fast and easy-to-use Blu-ray solution," said John Harrington, CEO, NetBlender."

About CINEMA CRAFT USA
For over 10 years CINEMA CRAFT has developed innovative high-end software toolsets for DVD and Blu-ray studio professionals who demand pristine picture quality. CINEMA CRAFT Software and Turnkey Systems include solutions for Film Restoration with-Reneat; Standard-Definition MPEG-2 Encoding with--CCE-SP2, CC Xtream, and CCE-MP); and High-Definition AVC/H. 264 Encoding with--CC-HDe. A vast majority of the Hollywood "A list" DVD and Blu-ray Titles have been encoded using CINEMA CRAFT. For more information, please visit: www.cinemacraftusa.com

About NetBlender
NetBlender was founded in 2005 by a team of veteran interactive media producers. The company designs and develops practical and professional Blu-ray technology solutions for the global BD production community. NetBlender's Blu-ray solutions include DoStudio BD Authoring Edition (DSA), a complete Blu-ray authoring tool designed for DVD authors moving to Blu-ray Disc, DoStudio BD Workflow Edition (DSW) which integrates with DSA Blu-ray encoding, subtitling, playback, burning and formatting, and BD Touch, an acclaimed solution that lets end-users interact with BD content through their iPhone and iPod Touch. For more information, please visit: www.netblender.com.

CINEMA CRAFT HD Encoder is Here!

Defining High Definition for Blu-ray, CINEMA CRAFT HD encoder is an innovative H.264/AVC tool for high-end Compressionists. Utilizing the ultimate optimization methodologies in existence for CPU performance and our proprietary Pre-filters, CC-HDe allows you to achieve outstanding picture quality and encoding speed which high-end professional C&A studios demand.

OMNI DVD MEDIA introduces the new OMNI Turbo MACH 3.
The HYBRID ON-LINE capture/OFF-LINE Encoding Turnkey System for High Quality Standard Definition MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Encoding. Featuring AJA and CINEMA CRAFT.

CINEMA CRAFT, Inc. is pleased to announce that an innovative new encoder, CINEMA CRAFT Xtream [CCX] was released on January 7th, 2005.

CINEMA CRAFT, Inc. provides the highest performance MPEG-2 encoders to high-end C&A houses, such as the Hollywood Industry. CINEMA CRAFT® Encoder [CCE] Pro has been used to produce the outstanding picture quality on scores of DVD titles worldwide. It is a great honor for us to state that Technicolor Creative Services (www.technicolor.com), a world leader in DVD compression and authoring, uses the CINEMA CRAFT® as its primary encoding engine for major studio collectors edition releases.

CCX is the ultimate MPEG-2 encoder for SD DVD. Check out some of highlights of CCX version 1.01.

Highlights:

- Completely New Powerful Encoding Engine
- Virtual Multi-Pass Encoding [VMPE]
- Advanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix [AAQM]
- Advanced Adaptive GOP Structure [AAGS]
- Preview
- Segment Re-Encoding [SRE]
- Field-based Automatic Scene Change Detection
- SDI output

(VMPE: Virtual Multi-pass Encoding; AAQM: Advanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix; and AAGS: Advanced Adaptive GOP Structure) - CCX performs between 2 and 8 passes in "real time" during each encoding pass. During the Virtual 2 and 8 passes (The amount of passes depends on the complexity of the content), CCX automatically optimizes for the best quantize matrices and GOP structure.

(Preview and SRE: Segment Re-Encoding) - CCX allows you to preview your tweaking before encoding and re-encode just a segment.

Are you tired of those crappy encoders that come bundled with your DVD Authoring programs? Artifacts up the gazoo! Transcoding time slower than a snail... Well, step up to the plate and try CINEMA CRAFT Encoder SP Version 2.70. You'll see why happy CINEMA CRAFT customers who have tried everything in the past, totally agree CINEMA CRAFT Encoder SP is the fastest transcoding solution and provides the best encoding quality compared to anything on the market today.

This isn't marketing hype... it's just the facts ma'am!