Pulse Digital Unveils Automated DVD System
October 20, 2004
New York, NY - Pulse Digital is showcasing its integrated Media Asset Management and automated DVD Authoring and Production System, DVD SelectNet, enabling organizations to easily manage media libraries and create DVDs automatically. Pulse Digital’s DVD SelectNet employs patented technology to make the DVD production process faster, more reliable and extremely easy, the company describes.
DVD SelectNet also provides an unheralded degree of format flexibility. Source material can be a pre-existing digital file (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, QuickTime, Windows Media, or AVI), content from a nonlinear editing system (including Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro), or can be digitized directly from tape or a live feed using an optional hardware component from one of Pulse Digital’s encoding partners. The final DVD can be delivered automatically to a robotic DVD device (such as the Rimage AutoStar, for complete recording and magazine-quality printing on the disc front), as well as to DLT or local storage.
Of particular interest to the Government sector, security is a major issue for DVD SelectNet. Though username and passwords protect the initial media, Pulse Digital is incorporating sophisticated technologies to help safeguard the content once discs are delivered. An encryption system is being integrated so that DVDs may only be played on specific DVD players. A watermarking system can reveal the particular source disc that was copied.
Because DVD SelectNet runs on a network, you may permit anyone with a username and password to log in and access the system. Everyone within any size organization can access the same media, when permitted, and create DVDs (or CDs), locally or remotely. The patent-pending “Remote Printing” option allows an organization to print DVDs directly over the Internet, enabling fast delivery of DVDs anywhere in the world.
DVD SelectNet manages a media library by utilizing a media asset management (MAM) system.
Continuing on the “fully-automated” theme, DVD SelectNet automatically transcodes the selected media clips into MPEG-2 elementary streams as required by the DVD specification. Supported video formats include MPEG-1, MPEG-2, QuickTime, Windows Media Files and AVI files.
DVD SelectNet is priced at $12,995 for the software, which includes the asset management system, the automated DVD production technology, unlimited client licenses, and one DVD burner license. There are only two options: to activate remote printers and to activate the XML integration.
For more information, visit
www.pulsedigital.com
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