Panvidea Releases New Version of Industry Leading Video Processing Engine

New Version Provides Enhanced Ease of Use and More Powerful Processing Filters

New York – 27^th July 2010 – Panvidea™, a global leader in the on-demand video preparation, processing and distribution of entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform, is pleased to announce the release of Panvidea v2.3.0, the latest iteration of its industry-leading cloud-based video encoding and post production platform. This new release provides a range of significant new features designed to provide greatly enhanced usability, flexibility, and power.

New product features and functionality include:

• Black Frame and Splicing filters now support grouping to reference timecode of source file when applying multiple duration augmenting operations
• Secure ingest directly from the Dashboard via SSL
• Advanced profile and job status search in the Dashboard
• Updated format setup dialog
• Enhanced job details dialog
• Double-click to edit rows vs. single click

Let’s examine each of these a little more closely.

Grouping to Reference Timecode for Black Frames and Splice Filters

Previous versions of Panvidea allowed you to apply video splices or insert any number of black frames at the head or tail of a video. However, you could not insert interstitial black frames for uses such as commercial black Sometimes multiple interstitial “pods” must be inserted into a single video. Furthermore, one could not apply multiple splice filters to a single source file to produce multiple output versions.

The new version of Panvidea removes these limitations by allowing you to apply these filters in groups that reference different points referencing a source video’s timeline.  

Grouping works slightly differently for the Black Frame and Splice filters, however, so it’s worth looking at each individually:

• Panvidea v2.3.0 allows you to group black frame filters within a profile in order to produce a single output file with multiple groups, or pods, of black frames inserted at various points within a source video’s timecode. Black frames can now be added to the head, tail, or interstitially easily by not having to make time calculations based on the results of the previous filter. 
• Panvidea v2.3.0 also allows you to group splice filters to create multiple output files with different bits of videos spliced onto the head and/or tail of the source file. Panvidea supports splices at the head and tail of the source video only. Interstitial splicing has long been supported, however, as part of the “Insert” filter.

 Secure Ingest Directly from the Dashboard

Panvidea now allows users to select a video directly from your file system and upload to one or more predefined profiles using secure HTTP. Although this approach is not recommended for uploading large files, it does provide a quick and simple ingest method for smaller files or for users looking for an easy way to submit a test file.

Here is what the new ingest screen looks like:

Advanced Profile and Job Status Search in the Dashboard

Finding the right format, job, file, or user just got a lot easier with Panvidea v2.3.0. Our new advanced search features allows you to define specific search criteria for all system categories within Panvidea. You can set specific date parameters, search for users by name or email address, quickly check the status of recent processing jobs, search for specific codecs or wrappers, and much, much more.

Updated Format Setup Dialog

Panvidea’s format setup screen is now easier to use than ever before with clear on-screen instructions and a simple drag-and-drop interface.

Enhanced Job Details Dialog

Panvidea v2.3.0 puts a wealth of detailed job information at customer’s fingertips with its new enhanced job details dialog screen. This new view assembles all critical job data – including name, size, transcode status, and delivery status – on a single screen. It also provides specific time durations for all phases of a job.

Double-Click to Edit Rows vs. Single Click

Finally, we’ve made it more intuitive to edit items in any table or list with a double click rather than a single click. And we’ve added a familiar progress wheel animation so that you always know when the system is processing your inputs.

About Panvidea:

Panvidea is a global leader in the preparation, processing and distribution of professional entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform. Originally founded as mPOINT in November 2007, the company re-branded in Spring 2010 with co-founder Chris Cali as CEO, to become Panvidea. Panvidea provides the only instantly scalable, on-demand solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for multiple audiences, and supply content as digital products to any platform or device. Panvidea’s secure software service eliminates the need for professional content companies to incur significant capital expenditures or pay exorbitant hourly fees to prepare their content for internal use or external digital distribution. For more information visit http://www.panvidea.com/

Press enquiries:

 Doug Heise, dheise@panvidea.com, +1 212-967-9613 ext. 8618
Chris Cali, ccali@panvidea.com, +1 212-967-9613 ext. 8610

Posted by doug_heise | Tuesday, July 27th, 2010