EditShare announced at IBC 2008 the release of EditShare XStream. Part of the new Complete Collaboration product line, XStream is EditShare's 5th-generation, high-performance shared storage solution for DI and Broadcast workflows. Leveraging the fastest storage technology on the market, each EditShare XStream 16-drive chassis processes over 1GB per second. Users can combine multiple XStream chassis for performance to match the needs of any large-scale production workgroup or high-bandwidth content creation facility.

"Not only can EditShare XStream support a wide range of mission critical and high-bandwidth environments, it does so with immense flexibility," said Andy Liebman, founder and president, EditShare. "You can put multiple EditShare XStream systems on the same network along with your EditShare Storage Series systems. This allows administrators to manage all their storage requirements from a single unified EditShare interface and precisely match the performance needs of each job. Our customers can also integrate acquisition and browse tools from the new EditShare Flow product line, enabling realtime collaboration from ingest to editing on to archiving and back. The possibilities are limitless and the performance is outstanding."

Combined with EditShare's 5th-generation administration, monitoring, and workflow tools, XStream enables industry-leading performance and an open environment for creative teams to share media regardless of application or platform. Users of Apple, Adobe, Assimilate, Autodesk, Avid, Digidesign, Sony, Thomson, and other applications can connect via Gigabit or 10-Gigabit Ethernet and freely share media regardless of size or format. As with EditShare Storage Series systems, XStream offers tremendous workflow advantages within the XStream Workflow Director: true project and media sharing for Apple and Avid users, user management tools that are designed specifically for post and broadcast, and integration with post and broadcast equipment for realtime and complete collaboration across the entire workflow.

EditShare XStream supports huge numbers of SD and compressed HD streams or multiple streams of uncompressed HD or 2K. With its unique PCI Express expansion architecture and a dedicated RAID card for every 8 or 16 drives, XStream provides unparalleled reliability, performance, and scalability.

EditShare will begin shipping the first XStream units at the end of September.

Please contact us for more information.

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Resolution Digital Studios and EditShare Team Up to Cover the NCAAs

Resolution Digital Studios (RDS) is the content creator's dream in the Midwest. The state of-the-art facility on Chicago's West Side provides end-to-end services to filmmakers, ad agencies, corporate clients, and event planners that turn creative vision into reality. The 32,000 square foot production and post complex includes a multi-level studio and sound stage, modular, customizable sets, SD and HD equipment and services for in-studio and field production, post video, graphics and audio suites, and transmission capabilities.

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Industry First: EditShare creates one file for use in both Avid and Final Cut Pro

EditShare has introduced new technology that creates a single media file which can be used in both Avid and Final Cut Pro editing environments. The Universal Media File technology works in conjunction with EditShare's Flow Ingest, the only multi-channel acquisition solution that captures in one format and simultaneously outputs to multiple formats.

The Universal Media File adds a new dimension to shared workflow situations, allowing media to easily be shared and used by editors working on both Avid and Final Cut Pro systems. There's no need to tie up ingest channels or create multiple files of the same media for use on different systems.

"The user has a choice of codecs and you can capture a single file and open that same file in both Avid and Final Cut Pro," explains Andy Liebman, President and Founder of EditShare. "It's really a first and the user doesn't have to do anything complex. In the interface to our ingest server, you just select the universal file for that codec, and it's done. The data remains pristine; none of the file data is compromised. This offers a great advantage and time-savings to any operation that wants the flexibility to work in a mixed editing environment."

Files produced in DV25, DV50, and DVCPRO HD can be ingested as universal media files in EditShare. Additional formats such as IMX will be included in the future.

Complete Collaboration - EditShare Flow
The Universal Media File technology is included with EditShare Flow, part of the company's Complete Collaboration product line that provides a unified workflow solution for ingest, logging, and browsing without requiring an Avid or Final Cut Pro workstation.

EditShare Flow Ingest enables media capture in one format with simultaneous outputs to multiple formats including Apple ProRes 422, Avid MXF, and low-res proxy formats. Feature highlights include multi-channel ingest with independent control over each channel, full metadata capture, and edit-while-recording capabilities. Users can automate ingest, control ingest remotely, or initiate it manually.

EditShare Flow Browse simplifies and accelerates media searches within the EditShare storage environment. Users can quickly locate media among hundreds of thousands of clips. EditShare Flow Browse supports proxy viewing outside the nonlinear editing application for optimal viewing on the EditShare Media Space, annotation of metadata forms, and the ability to drag and drop media into an Avid or Final Cut Pro bin.

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Scribe Media interviewed EditShare Founder Andy Liebman on the NAB 2008 show floor. Andy spoke in-depth about EditShare's new Complete Collaboration family of solutions including EditShare Flow's Universal Media File capability. This phenomenal, patent-pending feature lets users capture a single file and open it in Avid and Apple editing systems without the need to ingest twice.

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Complete Collaboration: EditShare Flow, EditShare Storage Series, EditShare XStream Series, and EditShare Ark. Manage media from ingest to archiving.

EditShare has announced Complete Collaboration, new, breakthrough turnkey solutions for managing and storing media from acquisition to archive. Complete Collaboration includes EditShare Flow, EditShare Storage Series, EditShare XStream Series, and EditShare Ark. Visitors to NAB 2008 can view the new Complete Collaboration product line at booth SL9820.

"Complete Collaboration is a natural extension of the original EditShare workflow. Tools to share, exchange, manage, and safely store media are developed specifically to support the wide range of post and broadcast workflows. With the EditShare philosophy at its core, Complete Collaboration ensures that users can leverage the editing applications and content creation tools of their choice," says Andy Liebman, founder and president, EditShare.

Complete Collaboration - EditShare Flow
The new EditShare Flow series offers two distinct packages - Flow Ingest and Flow Browse - that integrate seamlessly with the EditShare Storage, XStream, and Ark solutions. EditShare Flow Ingest is the only acquisition solution that captures in just about any format and simultaneously outputs to just about any format including Apple, Avid, and low-res proxy formats. No transcoding is required; files are immediately available. Features include multi-channel ingest with independent control over each channel, full metadata capture, and edit-while-recording capabilities. Users can automate ingest, control ingest remotely, or initiate it manually. EditShare Flow Ingest supports Apple ProRes 422, Avid MXF formats, and up to three codecs per channel including proxy.

EditShare Flow Browse simplifies and accelerates media searches within the EditShare storage environment. Users can quickly locate media among hundreds of thousands of clips. EditShare Flow Browse supports proxy viewing outside the nonlinear editing application for optimal viewing on the EditShare Media Space, annotation of metadata forms, and the ability to drag and drop media into an Avid or Final Cut Pro bin.

Complete Collaboration - EditShare Storage and XStream Series
EditShare Storage Series encompasses EditShare's existing shared storage solutions: the EditShare Field mobile storage solution, EditShare Metro for small to mid-size editing workgroups, and EditShare's scalable Rack Units. In addition to the legendary Apple and Avid project sharing capabilities, the storage series offers automated diagnostic tools and the industry's most efficient back-office data processing policies and administration.

The new EditShare XStream Series is designed to support high-performance post and broadcast environments. EditShare XStream can process media at data rates of 300MB per second per stream, supporting up to 52 streams of DV50 and multiple 1080p 444 HD projects/streams. This makes it the perfect solution for post facilities working with Digital Intermediary (DI) 2k projects as well as television stations with large numbers of simultaneous users accessing central storage or employing concurrent workflows.

Complete Collaboration - EditShare Ark
EditShare Ark provides integrated solutions for backups, mirroring, and archiving. These essential security features let users economically organize and manage media in a variety of scenarios, including LTO-backup and "spinning disc" solutions that can be upgraded to the full EditShare Server Series with little to no downtime. Built on "Green" drive technology, the EditShare Ark units optimize storage costs without compromising quality or scalability.

EditShare Complete Collaboration Availability
EditShare Flow, XStream Series, and Ark will ship in late Q2 2008.

Stay tuned for pricing details.

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EditShare - Booth SL9820
Expect a mob scene at the EditShare booth as the industry will be abuzz regarding EditShare's new Complete Collaboration family of workflow solutions. The EditShare Channel Partner Meeting takes place on Sunday, April 13th. If you're an existing or prospective channel partner and you have not received an invitation, please contact us. Also, be sure to register for EditShare's Complete Collaboration Product Launch Party which will take place at the EditShare booth on Tuesday, April 15th at 5pm. Drinks and appetizers will be served.

Boris FX and Media 100 - Booth SL8720
Visit the Boris FX booth to see Boris FX plug-ins running inside host applications from Adobe, Apple, Avid, Canopus, Media 100, and Sony.

Featured solutions will include:

* Boris Blue 2.5, now with Adobe CS3 support
* Final Effects Complete 5 for Adobe, Apple, and Avid
* Boris RED 4.2, Boris FX 9.2, and Boris Graffiti 5.2
* Boris Continuum Complete 5 for Adobe, Apple, and Avid

Also featured will be:

* Media 100 v12.5 with new support for HDV and multi-channel audio input
* Abaltat Muse, Express, and Beat, professional sound editing tools

Private Boris Continuum Complete Sparks demos will be given on a Linux-based Autodesk Flame system. BCC Sparks' 130+ filters include Lens Flare, Film Process, Film Damage, Particle Systems, Volumetric Lighting Rays, Glint, Glitter, and Glare. Please contact us to book an appointment.

Bluefish444 - Booth SL7906
The Bluefish444 booth will feature the following solutions:

* Uncompressed video I/O on a laptop with Mobile Video Devices
* ASSIMILATE SCRATCH with Bluefish444 2K Lust
* Apple Final Cut Studio with Bluefish444 SD Fidelity
* redThing and blueThing, highest-quality HD/SD-SDI to DVI-I converters
* Bluefish444 2K Lust with Symmetry for acquisition, review, and playout

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To reach Channel Wolves during NAB, please call 1.866.314.7785...

* Jordan Stabile: extension 101
* Grant Carroll: extension 102
* Eric Gardner: extension 103
* Rich D'Angelo: extension 104

We look forward to seeing you at the show.

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Performance Post is a Los Angeles post production facility with a Hollywood reputation. They do a lot of finishing work for television syndication and have a fast-growing business in "repurposing" films for television and new media.

The repurposed projects need reformatting, re-editing, time alteration and other work to meet the editorial and technical constraints of the various distribution media. With volume approaching a thousand titles a year, Performance Post owner Fausto Sanchez needed to find a better way to maximize his resources.

Prior to the EditShare installation, Performance Post had a stable of six Avid systems - each with their own storage. Sanchez explained, "The film-to-TV workflow involves some highly technical work that can only be performed in specially-equipped studios. Not every studio has all the necessary equipment, so having storage limited to one room was extremely inefficient. It was a nightmare trying to schedule and juggle all the jobs." Sanchez needed a centralized storage system that would allow true editing collaboration in order to meet the delivery deadlines of the increasing number of projects.

Sanchez evaluated several systems before selecting an EditShare 5RU unit with 8TB of storage. EditShare systems are Networked Attached Storage (NAS) devices that are highly optimized for video editing - both in their hardware and their software. Sanchez was particularly impressed by the fact that unlike many SANs, which require expensive Fibre Channel cards and switches, all EditShare systems use a standard 1 Gigabit Ethernet network for connectivity. Anticipating increased workloads involving high bandwidth, uncompressed HD streams, Sanchez implemented EditShare's 10 Gigabit Ethernet network option for his system. Speed and collaboration were his primary considerations. EditShare allows file level sharing so that all connected workstations can capture, access and share in real-time a common pool of media files. Regardless of application or platform, source material, work in progress and finished packages are shared and instantly available to all users on the EditShare network

EditShare's ability to seamlessly work with various generations of Avid products was a key reason for selecting the system. Sanchez says, "It's effortless - you log on, select and mount your project, and just move on. It doesn't get in your way at all. And with EditShare, I have the ability to keep the older systems like the Media Composers running right along side my newer HD systems."

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"EditShare is certainly marketing in a crowded and competitive space, but they offer the advantage of understanding the customer's production needs. These are robust systems offering comparable performance to any other unit out there, but the project sharing capabilities are unique. No other company offers Final Cut Pro project sharing as well as an Avid sharing solution. Furthermore, both Avid and FCP systems can co-exist in one ecosystem--a big boon for post houses that have to supply both solutions. EditShare is the collaborative workflow solution many editors will want when they expand their facility."

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EditShare and West Virginia University are in the hunt for Broadcast Engineering's seventh annual Excellence Awards in the category of "Post & network production facilities". Please help EditShare and West Virginia University secure this prestigious honor by voting today! Here are the details:

Customer Profile
WVU incorporates collaborative workflow to stay ahead of the game

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Australia's largest post facility - Cutting Edge - has put EditShare Field through its paces on the Australian Football League's (AFL) Grand Final series aired in high definition (HD) on Network TEN.

The AFL Grand Final is Australia's version of the NFL's Super Bowl and it is consistently Australia's most-watched television show every year. This year's match saw the Geelong Cats overtake the Port Adelaide Power by 119 points. High scoring isn't the only thing unique about "Aussie Rules" football. It's fast-paced and extremely physical - tactics focus on kicking and tackling; in-the-air pass throws aren't allowed. The high energy play on the oversized oval field with four goalposts at each end presents a challenge for broadcast coverage.

Specializing in on-location assignments, the Outdoor Broadcast (OB) unit of Cutting Edge has the country's largest fleet of production equipped vans packed with the latest HD technology. For the AFL Grand Final, Cutting Edge needed a rugged storage solution that would support a high-definition, quick-turn around, collaborative scenario in a temporary location.

A 3TB EditShare Field unit was the answer. EditShare Field is the world's first portable shared storage solution. The unit is compact and ruggedized, perfect for field work. Like all EditShare media sharing and storage products, EditShare Field supports a wide range of editing and compositing applications. EditShare Field stores audio and video files in a central networked location and connects to laptops and desktops over standard Gigabit Ethernet. EditShare Field supports all SD and compressed HD resolutions (including DNxHD).

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Business was growing for Merit Andrew, a boutique film production company based in Orange County, California. The company's four edit bays were humming with work ranging from national spots and music videos to high-end industrial films. The firm has seven full time employees, but multiple crews of up to a hundred professionals are often in the field.

Executive Producer Curt Fleming says the company was feeling some real pain moving around media, wasting more than two hours each day just to get media from room to room. An entire production day per week was spent managing media manually. To get back this wasted time, Merit Andrew needed to automate and streamline their workflow with a shared storage solution.

Fleming followed strict criteria as he considered every available system. "We're not willy-nilly with our funds and we do our homework before we invest in anything. It has to pan out financially," he explained. The solution had to support Avid as well as other editing and compositing systems. He wanted an open, heterogeneous environment with protected storage at an affordable price point. Fleming says, "Key Code Media helped us evaluate multiple solutions for our workflow, outlining the positives and workflow constraints and their impact to us. Once all the questions were answered, EditShare was a no-brainer."

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EditShare is more than shared storage - it is workflow and collaboration tools for creative teams. Since its launch in 2004, EditShare has been pioneering advanced file-based workflows and delivering best in class shared storage products for media driven companies throughout the world.

* EditShare is the first and only non-Avid solution to offer Avid Project Sharing
* EditShare is the first storage solution to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet
* EditShare is the first to offer true Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro
* EditShare is the first to deliver a Portable Shared Storage Solution

Check out EditShare's new PDF, The EditShare Value Proposition, to learn more about the benefits of EditShare. The PDF covers the following topics:

* The Benefits of Centralized Storage
* Standards Based Network Connectivity
* The Ultimate in Media Sharing
* EditShare's Powerful Project Sharing
* Access Control and Rules Based Management
* Efficient Protected Storage
* Integrated Synchronization/Backup Tool
* iSCSI Option
* EditShare ESA - Extreme Scalable Architecture

The EditShare Value Proposition

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EditShare Version 5.0 is now shipping with new, much-anticipated workflow capabilities: Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro, iSCSI support, and a brand new Archiving option for cost-effective file backup.

Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro Editors
The new EditShare Project Sharing feature for Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP) allows FCP editors to instantly see, copy, or revise the work of colleagues with the assurance that a bin, sequence, or project will never be accidentally deleted or overwritten. The new EditShare Project Sharing feature for FCP editors is seamless, eliminating time-consuming exporting and importing of XML files and duplication of FCP project files. This same outstanding capability was made available to Avid editors in 2006. To date, EditShare is the only developer to offer project sharing for both Avid and Apple editors.

Support for iSCSI
New iSCSI support lets customers simultaneously enjoy the advantages of a SAN and a NAS. Users may enjoy the ease, simplicity, and power of a file-level sharing NAS while benefitting from the block-level, SAN-type connectivity required for applications such as Digidesign Pro Tools and Avid DS Nitris.

EditShare Archive
EditShare Archive is a new option that can be added to an EditShare for cost-effective file backup. Archive is compatible with EditShare Media Spaces. If there is a problem with an EditShare - if it is stolen or damaged - EditShare Archive can be brought up as an EditShare server in a matter of minutes. Archive is integrated with EditShare for automating archiving and backup.

About Version 5.0
Already deployed by some of the largest post facilities and broadcasters around the world - including Australia's Cutting Edge and ION Media Networks in the U.S. - the new EditShare release adds significant enhancements to its core capabilities. Version 5.0 includes "plug and play" packaging for easy deployment, a streamlined file management structure to organize media files with greater speed and ease, and daily "health" reports on server activity. Improved Avid Project Sharing enables users to move nested folders and bins without having to worry about permissions. An optimized 'Administration Rights' tool grants specific access/controls on a per user and per media space basis.

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Undbitte Entertainment is one of the busiest post-production facilities in Germany. Its list of prime-time series includes popular hits such as Big Brother, Quiz Taxi, and the new show Poker Bus. Georg von Kreisner, Technical Director for Post Production, notes that each of the shows has unique technical demands, but all produce huge volumes of material with short turn-around schedules.

Undbitte Entertainment has relied on EditShare to streamline their production workflows over the past two years. Von Kreisner says EditShare's unique Avid Project Sharing which allows multiple editors to simultaneously edit show content is a dramatic time-saver. This is especially important to meet the short turn-arounds that are an inherent part of reality television...

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EditShare took home the C&T 2007 for Best Tapeless Digital Workflow for a project/facility roll out. Submitted in conjunction with Cutting Edge, Australia's largest privately owned post facility, EditShare won the coveted C&T Award for the widely popular reality TV show "Big Brother".

About the EditShare / Cutting Edge Project
Cutting Edge Managing Director Michael Burton proposed a tapeless workflow as a means to improve turnaround times for fast paced reality TV shows such as Big Brother. The transition to a tapeless workflow solved several critical issues and reduced overall costs of the operation. No longer did the team have to double-handle media. With EditShare, editors have instant access to high resolution source material via Gigabit Ethernet networks 24 hours a day.

The Cutting Edge / EditShare System Overview

* Integration of a Content Management System that includes live and proxy video generation, simple searching, and basic timeline editing

* Avid ALE generation and transfer to editing suites

* Control of a EVS disk capture system, capturing 6 live feeds continually

* Automatic transfer of 6 video streams to a 30TB EditShare system

The system was successfully used 24 hours a day for the three month Australian Big Brother '07 series. The EditShare workflow comprised of 10 Adrenaline suites and 10 proxy editing suites editing 2:1 realtime off the EditShare server.

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The Television Production Department at WVU is a busy operation, turning out more than 50+ "Mountainer Magazine" and "Mountaineer Jammin" programs for the Mountaineer Network which is syndicated and carried by several TV stations in the region. These and a full schedule of live Mountaineer Network game coverage of football, basketball, and other sports and campus activities keep the WVU team at full tilt. With the workload growing, Manager of Communications Engineering Fred Marstiller needed to streamline the operation and move towards an integrated file-based workflow to keep up with demand.

With each of the five Avid edit suites a stand-alone unit, there was no way to share material; valuable time was wasted digitizing tapes and waiting for materials. That all changed when WVU installed an EditShare system loaded with 36TB of storage. Unlike other shared storage systems, the Network Attached Storage (NAS) EditShare solution is uniquely optimized for postproduction workflows, offering software tools such as Avid project sharing that maximize collaboration for multi-user environments such as WVU.

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Smaller studios can now have what major studios have long enjoyed

"If you have ever worked on a project that had multiple editors on it you know the frustration that comes with having to sit and wait until one person was done with the media you needed. You waited and then even more frustrating or time consuming had to go and load the media onto a portable drive for your perusal or workflow. Although this worked for most it is about to become extinct.

What only the big boys at the studios had can now be afforded by smaller independent studios. Welcome to EditShare.

I had the opportunity to meet with EditShare President Andy Liebman last week for dinner. I was so blown away by what EditShare was able to do to the production workflow that I twisted Andy's arm to be on the show. His need for a better workflow prompted him to create EditShare.

The story is both inspiring and informative."

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EditShare has begun shipping version 5.0, the latest release of the award-winning EditShare shared storage solutions. This new release adds significant enhancements including "plug and play" for easy deployment, a streamlined file management structure to organize media files with greater speed and ease, and daily "health" reports on server activity.

"From day one, we have designed EditShare systems to not only support but advance file-based workflows for media-centric environments. Version 5.0 is no exception. A customer driven release, we are confident that our users will be very pleased with the vastly simplified media sharing experience and impressed with the immense workflow benefits from features such as the new Health Report and Synchronization Tool," comments Andy Liebman, founder and president, EditShare.

"The changes to EditShare 5.0 have improved our edit workflow substantially. With a large number of users connected, the system would need to re-scan to make new media available to all suites. Now the media appears seamlessly and there is no interruption to the workflow. Add to this the bulletproof reliability that we've been experiencing with our EditShare systems and it truly is the cost effective yet powerful solution that we've been searching for," comments Michael Burton, general manager, Cutting Edge.

EditShare Version 5.0 New Feature Highlights

* Simplified Media Management: Multiple levels of file protection. New "Read Only" option. New "Maintenance Mode" for deleting and modifying files.

* Tighter Control Using Limited Administration Rights: Grant specific controls on a per-user and per-Media Space basis. Authorized editors exercise their admin rights through EditShare Connect.

* Improved Shared Avid Projects: Warnings that other users' bins are locked. Move nested folders and bins without having to worry about permissions. Works flawlessly under both OS X and Windows.

* "Plug and Play" Network Configuration: EditShare can now be configured to act just a like a "switch" for easy deployment. Plug in your workstations and connect to media or anything on the office network.

* Powerful Synchronization Tool: Duplicate media files across two or more servers - whether they're located in the same building or on the other side of the world.

* Daily "Health Report": Administrators receive a daily email detailing server status and performance.

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First to deliver Project Sharing workflows for both Apple and Avid editing systems

EditShare has announced the addition of Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP) Project Sharing capabilities to the EditShare product family. Deployed first for Avid systems and editors, the widely popular EditShare Project Sharing technology provides tremendous collaborative workflow benefits by enabling multiple editors to work on the same project simultaneously. EditShare is the only collaborative workflow and shared storage solution to offer project sharing for Apple FCP and Avid editing systems.

"EditShare is more than shared storage - it is workflow and collaboration tools for creative teams," comments Andy Liebman, founder and president, EditShare. "We design and develop solutions customized for the creative post process. Innovative features such as Final Cut Pro and Avid Project Sharing are perfect examples of unique benefits the EditShare workflow offers. They reinforce our commitment in delivering the very best collaborative solutions for creative environments."

For the first time, Apple FCP editors can enjoy the same tremendous collaborative workflow benefits that previously were only available to Avid editors. The new EditShare Apple FCP Project Sharing feature allows multiple Apple FCP editors to simultaneously open up and work from the same projects. EditShare Project Sharing is seamless, eliminating time consuming exporting and importing of XML files and duplication of FCP project files. As with all EditShare systems, the rights management and rules driven architecture allow administrators to pre-define user access and prevent overwrites, further enhancing the overall exchange of media and creative workflow across all post environments.

* An assistant editor can digitize clips, organize into subclips while the senior editor simultaneously reviews the material;

* Journalists can assemble stories and the journalist can review the packages in progress - extracting clips and sound bytes to create the promo;

* Editors working on a reality show can share the same "master clips" and "subclips" without duplicating media files or projects. The executive producer can preview a sequence at his desk while editing of the sequence continues.

The EditShare Project Sharing functionality for Apple FCP will ship as part of the EditShare 5.0 standard feature set in Q3 2007. Existing EditShare 5.0 customers will be provided an update with the new Apple FCP Project Sharing feature free of charge.

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Producing 75 complete shows each season of the Portland Trail Blazers' quest for basketball glory is a full court press for Blazers Broadcasting, and there are no free throws if you miss a key shot. With millions of enthusiastic viewers, the producers and editors are committed to bring all the excitement of each game to their team's fans with digital production clarity.

With budgets tight, Blazers Broadcasting considered several server-based systems to feed their NLEs, but last October they selected EditShare and installed this Network Attached Storage system with 4 terabytes of capacity...

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Simplified administration, powerful synchronization tools, and automated "Health Reports" expand productivity and capabilities of EditShare media sharing and storage

EditShare has announced version 5.0 of their award-winning EditShare shared storage solutions. The new release brings improved ergonomics, simplified administration, and expanded capabilities to the EditShare shared-storage environment. New administration features and functions allow EditShare administrators to synchronize two or more servers regardless of geographic location, receive daily "health" reports detailing server activity, and minimize time to deploy with a new "plug and play" configuration. The vastly simplified file management structure enables EditShare users to organize their media files with greater speed and ease. Attendees to the NAB 2007 exhibition can see EditShare 5.0 at booth SL11105.

"When it comes to evolving the EditShare technology, we listen to our customers and value added resellers. The constant theme is the need for simplicity, reliability, and flexibility," comments Andy Liebman, CEO and Founder, EditShare. "We have taken their needs and combined them with our engineering innovation to produce one of the best shared media storage solutions on the market today... EditShare 5.0."

EditShare Version 5.0 Feature Highlights

* Powerful Synchronization Tool: Duplicate media files across two or more servers - whether they're located in the same building or on the other side of the world.

* Improved Shared Avid Projects: See warnings that other users' bins are locked. Move nested folders and bins without having to worry about permissions. Works flawlessly under both Mac OS X and Windows.

* Simplified Media Management: Variable levels of file protection. New "Read Only" option. New "Maintenance Mode" for deleting and modifying files.

* Limited Administration Rights: Grant specific controls on a per-user and per-Media Space basis. Authorized editors exercise their admin rights through EditShare Connect.

* Simplified Network Configuration: EditShare can now be configured to act just like a "switch". Plug in your workstations and connect to media or anything else on the office network.

* Daily "Health Report": Administrators receive a daily email detailing everything they need to know about their servers.

EditShare Version 5.0 will begin shipping in Q2 2007.

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Australia's largest post facility goes with EditShare



Having grown over the past 12 years into Australia's largest privately owned post production company - with facilities in Brisbane, Sydney and on the Gold Coast - Cutting Edge offers services for a broad spectrum of post production needs including television commercials, feature films and large scale Reality TV shows from all around the world. The company's credits include "Hell's Kitchen", "Big Brother" and "I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here!" just to mention a few. Cutting Edge relies on EditShare to provide the optimal editing workflow.

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World's first portable shared storage system with Avid project sharing

EditShare Field is now shipping. Announced at IBC 2006, EditShare Field was designed specifically for mobile editing. Based on the EditShare 4.0 architecture, EditShare Field offers the same powerful feature set contained in a portable, ruggedized casing for secure transportation and storage. EditShare Field is the world's only portable shared storage system to offer Avid project sharing.

EditShare Field Feature Highlights Include:

* Ruggedized and Shock Mounted Components
* 3TB RAID 5 Storage
* Support for SD, DV, HDV, DNxHD
* Avid Project Sharing
* Unlimited Users
* Redundant OS Drive
* Redundant Laptop-style External Power Supplies
* Internal Battery UPS
* Rack Mountable

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