By Elina Shatkin, February 17, 2004
CineForm, Inc. announced that its Aspect HD for Adobe Premiere Pro is now shipping. Working within Adobe Premiere Pro, Aspect HD provides professional real-time editing of high-definition (HD) video content, providing more than 30 HD-perfected real-time transitions and effects. This new version of Aspect HD not only includes HDLink, CineForm's capture and export utility for HDV camcorders and decks, but also provides compatibility with other AVI-compatible applications such as Adobe After Effects.
CineForm's products enable wide adoption of HD in the videography, corporate, independent film, and broadcast markets by providing content-creation professionals the only high-performance HD editing solutions that work seamlessly within a variety of video applications. CineForm's breakthrough products are the enablers for the emerging class of HDV camcorders such as JVC's JY-HD10U and GR-HD1 camcorders.
Aspect HD is based on CineForm's visually-lossless high-definition editing codec, CFHD, which provides unmatched performance and visual quality and is optimized for 's demanding high-definition post-production applications
. Aspect HD also includes CineForm's award-winning real-time video pipeline that provides more than 30 HD-optimized real-time transitions, professional color filters, graphic overlays, motion, and more, all within Adobe Premiere Pro.
The key to Aspect HD's unmatched editing performance is CineForm's innovative patent-pending technologies including a proprietary symmetric video codec and video effects engine. Using a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 PC and a simple RAID 0 configuration, up to four HD streams plus transitions, effects, and motion are possible, all simultaneously, all in real time, and without the need for specialized hardware. After editing, HD video is easily exported to a wide variety of HD, SD and web distribution formats.
Aspect HD for Adobe Premiere Pro is immediately available directly from CineForm and from select Video Specialty Resellers for a list price of $1199, exclusive of Premiere Pro. A bundle that includes Aspect HD and Adobe Premiere Pro will be available in the coming weeks. Existing registered users of Aspect HD for Adobe Premiere 6.5 will be upgraded to Aspect HD for Adobe Premiere Pro free of charge.
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