Quality, Flexibility Make Xantus the #1 Choice

Orlando, FL- (December 17, 2003) –Video Arts has selected the Teranex Xantus™ platform as the technical cornerstone for its HDTV post-production studio in San Francisco. The Xantus at Video Arts delivers the first, real-time multi-format conversion capability to San Francisco’s emerging HD market, providing unsurpassed quality for up-conversions and the integration of divergent digital media into HD programming. Xantus enables complete format and frame rate conversion, which is crucial for worldwide delivery formats. The Teranex multi-format and multi-application platform provides Video Arts with state-of-the-art tools to meet their customers’ needs for a costeffective HD production process in an increasingly confusing world of emerging and, often conflicting, formats.

“Xantus supports more than 100 conversion formats and is the ultimate platform for customers who service clients globally,” said Janet Leising, vice president of marketing, Teranex. “Xantus provides flexibility and the highest quality multi-format conversion available between Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) with intuitive user controls, creating a future-proof platform for emerging formats.” Some of the key features of Xantus are; the unique PixelMotion™ de-interlacing and frame rate conversion, sophisticated film cadence detection to correct broken 3:2 cadence, aspect ratio controls and automatic colorspace processing between SD and HD formats.

“Xantus is a key factor in helping us to evolve our business,” said Kim Salyer, Managing Partner, Video Arts. “We believe that HD represents the focal point of the ongoing convergence of film, video and other digital media. It’s a watershed moment in the history of media and one of the great challenges is the cross-conversion of media that have different resolutions, frame rates and aspect ratios. Our clients are excited by the power of HD imagery but confused by the wide array of competing formats and standards and they are concerned about the viability of mixing media.” “The Xantus has quickly established itself as the ‘magic problem-solving box’ and our clients ask for ‘Teranex’ by name for up-conversions and ‘finishing quality’ down conversions,” continues Salyer. “We were a little nervous about making the investment in Xantus but, after only a few months, we are upgrading our system to include the full range of products. We’ve used the Xantus for a variety of SD applications including fixing broken cadence for film originated programs that were edited in video and were being transferred back to film. We’ve converted 4x3 aspect material to 16x9 and our clients were amazed at the quality of the expanded images; they looked as good as the original.”

About Xantus:

Xantus runs on Teranex’s flexible real-time parallel array processing platform and is the only processor-based platform available with unique processor-per-pixel technology. Teranex’s software applications provide the added benefit that the user is able to easily add new features and functions through simple software upgrades, providing the customer a future proof purchase.

About Teranex:

Teranex is a leading provider of patented programmable array processing technology for the digital media market. Mostly available through resellers such as Avid, Thomson, VCA, Virtual, Marshall Graphics, KeycodeMedia, Matrix and Snader, Teranex products include format conversion and advanced noise reduction solutions for the content creation, content distribution and content consumption markets. Teranex operates from headquarters in Orlando, FL and maintains offices in Milpitas, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Denver, CO; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; London, England. For further information, visit: http://www.teranex.com.

About Video Arts:

Video Arts, founded in 1976, is a leading San Francisco-based Digital Studio providing design, animation, special effects & editing services for advertising, broadcast television & corporate communications. In 2003, Video Arts embarked on a major, studio-wide restructuring, installing two HD edit suites, an HD compositing and effects suite and an upgraded Master Control Room featuring the Teranex “Xantus” HD format converter. Video Arts also provides the Bay Area’s most complete technical facilities service including format conversions, DVD publishing and authoring, encoding and content delivery services, media solutions consulting and engineering support services.

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