Broadcast Interactive Media Selects Panvidea to Encode and Distribute Local Video News and User Generated Content

Panvidea Cloud Service Enables Local Broadcasters to More Efficiently Upload, Transcode and Publish Video News and Metadata

New York – 31^st August 2010 – Panvidea™, a global leader in on-demand video encoding, preparation, processing and distribution for entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform, has today announced that Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM) has selected Panvidea’s Cloud-based video processing solution to power an enhanced version of the BIMVid™ video content management system as well as the YouNews™ social media platform.

BIM is the leading provider of locally-focused content, advertising and technical solutions for television, newspaper and radio websites. With the BIMVid system, clients can publish video anywhere with a web connection, easily edit clips and select a specific frame to display as the story image, and track all content and video assets. YouNews, BIM’s social media platform, allows community members to upload videos, photos and stories to local media websites for use on-air or for cross-targeting elsewhere online. The platform delivers revenue opportunities, local and national contesting, national content exchange, plus content moderation.

BIM and its customers will be able to benefit from a broadcast-ready feature set that has already attracted the attention of major clients including A&E Television Networks, Fox Broadcasting Company and Getty Images. Panvidea provides the only instantly scalable, cloud-based 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.
 
The combined solutions from BIM and Panvidea will allow local broadcasters and individual community members to upload local video content from any location via integrated applications or a standard web-based interface. The system will automatically transform the content to the correct publishing format and package the metadata for online distribution. The move to Panvidea promises to provide BIM’s clients and individual contributors with significantly improved performance, faster publishing time, enhanced security, and superior video quality.
 
“We looked at the market and determined that no other on-demand video processing solution supports as wide a range of professional formats, post-production operations and video workflow tools,” said Nate Leaf, Director of Business Development at Broadcast Interactive Media. “The Panvidea platform will help us reduce our costs and deliver a better service to our customers.”

“The combination of BIM’s flexible web and video content management system with Panvidea’s next generation video post production and encoding solution promises to make it faster and easier for local news providers to provide their audiences with relevant, up-to-the-minute video features,” said Chris Cali, co-founder and CEO of Panvidea. “We are proud to be a part of their solution.”

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.

About Broadcast Interactive Media:

Broadcast Interactive Media is the leading provider of locally-focused advertising, content and technical solutions for television, radio, and newspaper websites. Since acquiring TitanTV Media in February 2010, BIM’s offerings have expanded to encompass powerful data tools and management solutions. Core products are the BIMVid and TitanCast video systems, YouNews social media platform, MediaStar suite, TitanTV Guide, BIM Local Ad Network, local sales initiatives such as Healthy Living and Green, and STELA Compliance Tools. Customers include ABC, Belo Television Group, Capitol Broadcasting, CBS Television, Fisher Communications, Fox Television, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst-Argyle, NBC LIM and Scripps-Howard. BIM is based in Madison, WI with offices in New York City, Cedar Rapids, IA and Austin, TX. Connect with BIM at http://twitter.com/bimlocal or http://twitter.com/younews.

Press enquiries:

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

Panvidea Supports WebM Open Media Project

Panvidea Supports Enhanced VP8 Codec Support as Part of its Instantly Scalable Cloud Video Encoding and Distribution Service

New York – 26^th August 2010 – Panvidea™, a global leader in on-demand video encoding, preparation, processing and distribution for entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform, has today announced broad and comprehensive support for Google’s new WebM project, along with Adobe, Microsoft, and more than forty other publishers, software and hardware vendors. The new WebM open web media format, based on the VP8 open source video codec, is immediately available to all users of Panvidea’s cloud based video encoding and processing service at no additional charge as part of the company’s already extensive list of the highest quality video and audio codecs and containers.

WebM is an open, royalty-free media file format designed specifically for online video distribution. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec developed by On2 Technologies, a leading video compression firm acquired by Google in 2009.

The VP8 codec delivers high-quality video while efficiently adapting to varying processing and bandwidth conditions across a broad range of devices. It is highly bandwidth efficient and has low storage requirements, making it attractive for publishers looking to reduce costs and expand licensing opportunities for their content. The format strives for simplicity, making it easy to integrate into existing environments and easy to fine tune for the highest possible output quality.

WebM is designed to be a free alternative to the proprietary formats that dominate video on the web today – especially H.264. WebM is 100% free, and open-sourced under a BSD-style license. The introduction of the royalty-free WebM format has already had a significant impact on the online content market. As more companies – including most of the major web browsers – embrace the format, the owners of other formats are increasing starting to embrace open standards as well. One recent example is MPEG LA’s recent decision to offer a royalty-free license for the popular H.264 video codec for video sites that offer free video streams to consumers.

“We are very excited to be able to announce our support for the WebM initiative,” said Chris Cali, co-founder and CEO of Panvidea. “As online video becomes more pervasive and more professional, developers need to be able to select from a wide variety of high quality formats – both open source and proprietary.  We believe that the WebM project, with its emphasis on openness and will make it even easier for publishers of all shapes and sizes to distribute video content of the highest possible quality. We think that’s a good thing for the industry and we are pleased to be able to offer WebM video encoding to our customers.”

Panvidea already provides comprehensive support with full codec parameter control for all major TV, VoD, web & mobile formats. Panvidea’s built-in intelligence and instantly scalable cloud video encoding engine automatically determines the best way to produce the highest quality results in the fastest possible time.

“Panvidea leads the industry with regard to scalability, cost efficiency, batch processing capabilities, and workflow automation for professional content owners,” said Cali. “Adding support for Google’s WebM format only adds to the strengths of our service offering.”

For more information on the WebM project, please visit the following site: www.webmproject.org/.

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

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

Panvidea Named an AlwaysOn East Top 100 Winner

Company Selected as a Leading East Coast Private Company for 2010

New York – 11^th June 2010 – Panvidea™, a global leader in the on-demand video preparation, processing and distribution of entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform, has today announced that it has been selected to the 2010 AlwaysOn East Top 100 Private Companies List.

The AlwaysOn East Top 100 Award is given to East Coast companies pioneering in cloud computing and SaaS, digital media, and greentech. The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at the Blackstone Group, KPMG, Silicon Valley Bank, Sonnenschein, and industry experts across the globe, selected Panvidea based its demonstrated ability to forge innovative solutions that are transforming industries and generating huge value-creation opportunities.

“Panvidea’s inclusion in the AlwaysOn East Top 100 is a great honor and a validation of our success in transforming the way media companies manage and process their video assets,” said Chris Cali, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Panvidea.  “Panvidea is leading the way in providing flexible, business-centric tools for media providers and their distribution partners. Tools that help them handle the business challenges of multi-platform distribution as well as the technical challenges.”

Panvidea and the other AlwaysOn East 100 winners will be recognized at the AlwaysOn Venture Summit East 2010, being held at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA, on June 21-23, 2010.  This executive event, co-presented by The Blackstone Group, will highlight the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor.

“After examining the companies that are on the AOE100 list, it’s obvious that innovation is not only alive and well on the East Coast, it’s accelerating in economic power and scope.” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies certainly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace.”

The AlwaysOn East Top 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other East Coast technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders.

“This award further demonstrates our technical and business leadership in digital video preparation, processing and distribution” said Vice President of Marketing, Doug Heise. “Panvidea is the only cloud-based video processing solution that is designed to meet the needs of professional media companies across the entire digital media value chain including content owners and broadcasters, advertisers, and direct response marketers. We are excited that the AlwaysOn editors recognized our ability to provide a unique and cost effective solution for transforming and delivering video assets for our clients.”

A full list of all the AlwaysOn East Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://www.aonetwork.com/node/65221.

 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/

About AlwaysOn:

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen Silicon Valley, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

Press enquiries:

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

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