Rimage Corp. is enhancing its support for users of Apple Mac systems with support for the Mac OS X in Rimage Software Suite 8.1. This support will make it easier for Mac users, predominantly in the commercial video, broadcast and design fields, to seamlessly integrate automated disc production into their operations and simplify previously time-consuming production workflows.

Designed specifically for Mac-based content creation environments, Rimage DiscFlow enables Apple OS X users to burn, print and distribute audio, video and data discs automatically by using a Rimage Producer Series or Professional Series digital publishing system as part of an integrated production workflow. DiscFlow is a native Mac client application that works seamlessly with Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe and other digital production titles.

Stefan Exner, managing director of Rimage Europe, says, "For years, digital content producers have been asking us for the kind of product innovation that would simplify the disc production workflow for pre-release discs, test discs, screeners and marketing discs."

"With Rimage DiscFlow, we've met the requirements by creating our first digital publishing application designed exclusively for Mac users, fully inspired by the Apple OS X interface. The result is a disc publishing solution that eliminates time-consuming manual burning and costly outsourcing while enabling users to keep their focus on video production and not on managing the disc creation process," he adds.

Rimage DiscFlow embraces the core visual language of a Mac environment and will be familiar to content creation professionals, allowing them to burn and print DVDs, CDs and Blu-ray discs on demand with little user effort. DiscFlow's innovative user interface leverages the Mac operating system's "cover flow" model, giving users easy visual access to all disc-publishing projects.

Rimage Features
Rimage digital publishing systems offer all-in-one disc production—disc burning and permanent direct-to-disc printing are combined as one simple operation. Rimage's hardware and software package can link many users over a network—just like a network printer—enabling seamless integration with Mac and Windows clients simultaneously.

With Rimage DiscFlow, digital content producers can:

• Create one or many DVD test discs, dailies, pre-screeners or promos in-house, manually or automatically, without tying up editors or producers with time-consuming disc burning tasks.
• Eliminate the expense and hassle of outsourcing disc production while adding valuable services and creating new revenue streams by offering impressive photorealistic discs to customers.

Rimage DiscFlow is the latest addition to the Producer Software Suite that is included with Rimage Professional and Producer disc publishing systems. DiscFlow is comparable to QuickDisc, the Rimage Windows client. The DiscFlow client can be installed on an unlimited number of Macintosh computers on the network. In addition, the browser-based WebRSM is provided to give Macintosh users instant job and system monitoring information while also providing consumable and queue status.

"We have invested heavily in understanding what digital media producers need in terms of disc production and workflow," Exner adds. "With such tight deadlines, it makes perfect sense for facilities to bring disc-making in house to save time and money. Rimage DiscFlow will handle disc production with automated efficiency, freeing up valuable staff time to focus on deadline-driven tasks instead of burning and printing discs."

Rimage DiscFlow for Mac OS X was previewed at NAB in April and will on display at IBC this month.