Accom Offers Windows Media Video 8 Encoding for High Definition Movie Masters
Accom® (OTCBB: ACMM), (NAB S4806) today announced at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) it is offering a turnkey solution supporting universal Windows Media Encoding of standard and high definition video formats for the professional marketplace.
This allows production companies and studios to do reference quality encoding from high definition masters to Windows Media with resolutions up to 1920 by 1080, yielding the best results possible.
This solution is based on Accom's WSD/HD digital disk recorder. The WSD/HD is capable of recording and playing standard definition as well as all the popular high definition video formats. In addition, it offers precise frame accurate control of video tape recorders for reliable capture of content. Inaccurate capture with missing frames is not an option for professionals. State of the art encoding schemes require multiple passes over the source content to achieve high quality images. The WSD/HD disks are directly accessible to the Windows Media Encoder allowing easy multi-pass encoding.
"Starting out with a High Definition master gives the best quality encoding to Windows Media for Video On Demand," said Phil Bennett, Chief Technology Officer of Accom. "Much the same as masters are already being used for DVD movie encoding," he continued. "The ability to directly input these masters to disk and do sophisticated pre-processing will be important to the top quality encoding applications," Bennett concluded.
"Accom's WSD/HD combined with Windows Media Video 8's quality and security offers a technological bridge to the high definition professional video world as studios prepare full length feature films and shows for video on demand applications over the Internet," said Michael Aldridge, Lead Product Manager, Windows Digital Media Division, Microsoft Corp.
About Accom
Accom is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Accom designs, manufactures, sells, and supports a complete line of digital video production, disk recording, and editing tools for use in the worldwide professional television marketplace — encompassing the production, post production, broadcasting, and computer video markets.
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