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EditShare Prepares for NAB 2012

Boston, Massachusetts – EditShare, the technology leader in shared media storage and end-to-end tapeless workflow solutions, today announced its plans for the NAB 2012 exhibition held in Las Vegas, NV from April 16 – 19 (stand SL9020). EditShare will showcase its entire product line-up and highlight advancements in storage performance, seamless file migration across storage tiers, enhanced file and metadata management, and new enterprise capabilities, including distributed processing for large-scale file ingest and proxy rendering, and system-wide workflow monitoring from ingest to archive. “Collaboration, high performance, efficiency and cost-effectiveness are at the heart of everything we do, starting with our shared storage platform. The newest features and capabilities in our end-to-end workflow build on that approach. Whether you are ingesting or archiving, searching for media or playing it out, our integrated production tools make it easy to get your job done and to manage any format and any workflow. This gives our customers a tremendous competitive edge,” comments Andy Liebman, Founder and CEO of EditShare. “We are looking forward to sharing our latest innovations at the big show and celebrating alongside our customers, the successes of their projects powered by EditShare.”

Highlights of the EditShare Tapeless Workflow:
EditShare seamlessly integrates high-performance shared storage solutions – XStream, Energy and Metro – with video capture / asset management – MAM (EditShare Geevs/Flow), editing (Lightworks), archiving (EditShare Ark) and playout (Geevs) – to offer broadcast and post-production professionals a productivity-enhancing, end-to-end tapeless workflow. With powerful capture, logging, searching, sequence creation, project sharing and easy archiving, the workflow becomes streamlined and more efficient. From start to finish, metadata and media are easily searchable and accessible from EditShare’s central storage or archives; background processes are transparent to users, allowing them to focus on their creative efforts.

Highlights of the EditShare tapeless workflow:
* Geevs records Avid DNxHD or ProRes directly to EditShare’s shared central storage and produces proxy files in real time for the Flow MAM, with user-level security, mirror copy and automatic backup to EditShare Ark. During ingest, users can log shots, create subclips and even create sequences that cut between inputs.
* Integrated with Geevs, the Flow MAM allows users to view proxy file content on their desktops as well as ingest media from file-based sources such as P2 and XDCAM. Simple editing tools and metadata templates let users add details to clips, make rough cuts, and drag and drop clips and sequences into their NLEs – all without requiring access to full-resolution media.
* EditShare’s high-performance, shared-storage media-management workflow offers an advanced Project Sharing feature with patented bin and project-locking capabilities. Lightworks, Avid and Final Cut Pro (v6/7) editors can see, copy and revise the work of colleagues with the assurance that no bins, sequences or projects will be accidentally deleted or overwritten.
* Ark Disk and Tape offer facilities for tiered storage infrastructure with nearline and offline archiving options and automation capabilities to keep media safe. When combined with Flow, users can browse, delete and restore (including partial restore) archived materials from any desktop on the EditShare network.

NAB 2012 – Editshare New Technology Sneak Peek:
EditShare XStream and Energy Series – Shared Production Storage
EditShare’s best-in-class storage infrastructure delivers high performance and workflow-engineered features, such as Avid and Final Cut Pro project sharing, to optimize collaboration for post-production, Digital Intermediate and broadcast production workflows. Fully integrated with EditShare Flow, Lightworks, Geevs and Ark, EditShare’s shared storage solutions are scaled to petabytes, outperforming comparable solutions at an unbeatable price point.

New capabilities shown at NAB 2012:
* Advanced project sharing with Adobe Premiere Pro
* Support for Final Cut Pro X
* Enhanced networking configurations to maximize performance and throughput across the EditShare tiered-storage platform

EditShare Flow – Production Asset Management:
Flow offers comprehensive media management with production tools to log, track, browse, retrieve and edit assets. Advanced features such as Multichannel SDI Ingest, Edit-While-Capture, and Bandwidth-Controlled File-Based Ingest add a level of control over productions that set Flow apart from its peers. Fully integrated with EditShare’s full lineup of products, Flow facilitates a tapeless workflow from ingest to archive.

New capabilities shown at NAB 2012:
* Ability to drag and drop clips into Adobe Premiere
* Support for creating group (multi-cam) clips during ganged capture
* Ability to delete and restore files by individual users
* Proxy-node worker for distributed rendering of proxy files
* Closed-caption support

Lightworks – Non-Linear Editing | Open Source:
Academy(R) and Emmy(R) award-winning Lightworks was introduced in 1989 as the first and most advanced professional editing system on the market. Its intuitive controls, real-time synchronization and editing features remain unmatched by top industry alternatives. Notable and recent films edited on Lightworks include the Academy-Award(R) winning The King’s Speech, edited by Tariq Anwar; Hanna, edited by Paul Tothill; Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, edited by Jill Bilcock; and the multi-nominated Hugo, edited by Thelma Schoonmaker.

On the NAB stand, EditShare will host a “Lightworks Edit Bar,” with which attendees can hands-on test-drive the latest Lightworks release.

EditShare Ark – Archiving and Backup:
Developed on the same rock-solid architecture as the shared storage solutions, EditShare Ark Disk and Tape offers advanced backup and archiving capabilities managed from the same intuitive interface. Because Ark is directly integrated with EditShare’s tapeless workflow and collaborative-storage products, archived content can be easily searched using EditShare Flow MAM tools, retrieved, and quickly brought back onto the EditShare shared storage systems – XStream, Energy and Metro.

New capabilities shown at NAB 2012
* Partial Restore from Ark Disk
* Extensive system-activity reporting

Geevs – Broadcast Ingest and Playout:
Geevs Broadcast Servers are crafted to support a wide range of demanding workflows, including simple ingest, complex newsroom integration, live sports with instant replay, multi-camera studio ingest and 24/7 scheduled playout. With over 1,000 channels on-air, Geevs meets the needs of every broadcast production workflow with its unmatched codec support, including DVCPRO HD, Apple ProRes, Avid DNxHD, XDCAM HD and AVC-Intra 100.

New capabilities shown at NAB 2012
* Support for Live Preview
* 23.98 Support
* Upscale from SD to HD
* Multiviewer support

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EditShare Energy Series
EditShare Flow
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EditShare Ark

EditShare is the technology leader in networked shared storage and tapeless, end-to-end workflow solutions for the TV and film industry. Our groundbreaking products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include video capture and playout servers, high-performance central shared storage, archiving and backup software, media asset management, and the world’s first 3-platform (Windows, OS X and Linux) professional non-linear video editing application. (C)2012 EditShare LLC. All rights reserved. EditShare(R) is a registered trademark of EditShare LLC. All other trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

Eternal Storms Software’s flickr app flickery on sale for 50% off

Vienna, Austria – Eternal Storms Software announces a “50% off” sale for their Mac app flickery, a unique flickr desktop client for Mac OS X 10.6 and later which combines the flickr photo-community with the ease-of-use and elegance of Mac OS X.

With flickery, the user can easily upload photos and videos to your flickr photostream (featuring photo editing capabilities like resizing, flipping, cropping, rotating and applying filters as well as video-trimming options), organize items in photosets and groups, browse their favorites and add to them, check out gorgeous photos available in “Explore” and take a look at their contacts’ photos, photosets or favorites. Search the entire flickr database for a particular shot. Browse all the Groups you have joined or Galleries you have created. flickery lets you do it all.

flickery perfectly integrates into Mac OS X with plugins for both iPhoto and Aperture, which allow for exporting items from these applications to flickery for processing them for upload to flickr.

Another strong point of flickery is its extensive search functionality. Not only can users search for shots with certain tags, titles or descriptions. flickery offers integration with Google Maps so users can pinpoint a particular location at which shots were taken.

System requirements
* Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher
* For flickery to run, an internet connection is mandatory
* A flickr account is not necessary, but is recommended

Pricing and Availability
A fully functional 15-day trial is available at the website. flickery 1.9.25 is exclusively available for purchase on the Mac App Store for currently $4.99 (instead of usually $9.99) to celebrate being part of the Mac App Store’s “Apps for Photographers” promotion.

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Eternal Storms Software is a one-man software company located in Vienna, Austria, Europe. Their portfolio of software reaches from quality freeware/donationware software like GimmeSomeTune, HierarchicalDock and PresentYourApps to shareware applications like Yoink, a drag’n'drop helper app for OS X Lion and flickery, a desktop flickr client for Mac OS X. “For your computer, all that matters is good software.” Copyright (C) 2011 Eternal Storms Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Speed PRO 2.4 for iOS supports route export with KML

Austin, Texas – Mother Tucker, LLC has announced the release of Speed PRO 2.4 for iOS devices. Designed originally for GPS-equipped iPhones, Speed PRO is a GPS-based speedometer that gives users a digital view of their current speed, average speed, top speed, distance traveled, elapsed time and altitude and allows them to save their routes. The most significant features are: presenting speedometer information in an easy to read digital format; Saving Routes with breadcrumb trails; Manual and Automatic Pause/Resume; Downloadable altitude readings; Sharing speedometers and routes with friends; and a customizable speedometer interface.

Speedometer Features:
* Full-screen display of your Course, Current Speed, Average Speed, Top Speed, Distance Traveled, Elapsed Time, Altitude
* Pause/Resume tracking by single tapping screen
* Single Tap assignment option (“Pause/Resume Tracking”, “Capture Image”, “Ignore”)
* Double Tap assignment option (“Pause/Resume Tracking”, “Capture Image”, “Ignore”)
* Auto Pause/Resume option (Turn On to make Speed PRO: pause when it detects that you’ve stopped; resume when you it detects your moving; not allow manual Pause/Resume)
* Reset Confirmations option (Turn On if you want a confirmation sheet when you tap ‘Reset’)
* Swipe Left or Right to switch to Camera interface (Must have Background set to “Camera”)
* Share Speedometer snapshots on Facebook or via In-App Mail
* Copy&Save Speedometer snapshots
* Portrait and Landscape orientation support
* Background option (“Black”, “Camera”)
* Mirroring option for HUD on windshield
* Text Color option (“Red”, “Green”, “Blue”, “White”)
* Units option (“Miles”, “Km”)
* GPS Accuracy option
* ‘Background Updates’ Location option – Allows your app to execute in the background (requires multitasking)

Altitude Feature:
* The Altitude source option allows you to choose where the altitudes displayed on your speedometer from
* Choose the one that works the best in your location

Supported values are:
* “Device”: your altitudes come from your device (Default)
* “MapQuest”: your altitudes are downloaded from MapQuest
* “USGS”: your altitudes are downloaded from USGS

Route Management Features:
* Speed PRO always records your current route
* Tap ‘Reset’ to set your current route’s start time to your current time and it’s starting location to your current location
* Tap ‘Capture’ -> ‘Save Route’ to save your current route
* Tap ‘Routes’ to view your Saved Routes
* Share Route maps and speedometers on Facebook or via In-App Mail
* Share Routes as KML via In-App Mail [Google Earth recommended for viewing KML]
* Copy and Save route maps and speedometer snapshots
* Altitude source option ["Device", "MapQuest", "USGS"]
* Records your route in the background (requires the ‘Background Updates’ Location option to be turned On and a multitasking device)
* Trail Color option for maps (Red, Green, Blue, Brown)
* Map Type option for maps (Street, Satellite)

Camera Features:
* Record videos and view the Speedometer interface at the same time
* Single Tap preview to Take a Photo
* Double Tap preview to Start/Stop Recording (iPhone 3GS or later model iPhones only)
* Set Focus by Pressing and Holding 1 finger at desired point on the preview
* Set Exposure by Pressing&Holding 2 fingers at desired point on the preview
* Swipe Left or Right on preview to switch back to the Speedometer interface
* 5X Zoom
* Flash/Torch/Focus Control
* EXIF (Camera Timestamp GPS)
* Auto Save (All videos and photos you shoot are saved to your Saved Photos Album)
* Requires your Background option to be set to “Camera”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3G or later model iPhone, and iPad WiFi 3G
* iOS 4.0 or higher
* 1.4 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
Speed PRO 2.4 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Navigation category.

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Located in Austin, TX, Mother Tucker, LLC was founded in 2009 by Raymond Perez and Nicole Tucker Perez. Mother Tucker, LLC develops software for iOS devices including many that were featured by Apple. Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Mother Tucker, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Creators of Kid-Capsule App are Holding a Contest

Parkland, Florida – Zen Labs LLC is proud to announce that they are holding a contest on their Kid-Capsule app blog where you will have a chance to win 2 $10 iTunes gift cards and a beautiful alphabet poster of an original illustration created in pencil and watercolor by the talented Piktorama.

Zen Labs have partnered with the amazing artist at Piktorama to bring you their very first contest. Submit an idea for a new feature or enhancement that you would like to see added to future versions of their family journaling and memory app Kid-Capsule before February 17, 2012. Their curators will select the 5 best that will go on to the public voting phase. No purchase is necessary to participate.

Kid-Capsule puts your child’s life story right at your fingertips. If you have a daughter, son, niece, nephew or grandchild it is the perfect way to log your family’s priceless moments and preserve them forever.

Zen Labs President, Anahelena Natera is a mom herself. “I am a mom of a now 3 y/o and am one of those people that has to save everything and preserve moments in time. When my daughter was an infant I found myself jotting everything down on my Notes app and cross-referencing photos and videos. Obviously that didn’t work out well for me so I decided to create my own app for preserving the memories of my daughter’s adventures in growing up.”

Key Features Include:
* Easy to use interface
* Wide variety of event and milestone categories to inspire you to create more events as you go. Everything from baby’s first milestones to her Ph.D., your imagination will run wild
* Supports multiple profiles so you can save memories for every family member
* Add photos and videos to each event
* View photo and video galleries by category, type or event
* Share with friends and family via email or Facebook
* Share your events with other Kid-Capsule users
* Beautiful photo sharing scrapbook style layouts for all to notice your little one’s accomplishments
* Send birth announcements on a beautiful customized scrapbook style layout
* Localization enabled. Saves coordinates of the places where events happened
* Calendar view
* Events are fully editable and delete-able

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 11.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Kid-Capsule 1.2 is $2.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

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Located in Parkland, FL, Zen Labs was founded in 2010 by Anahelena Natera. Zen labs is an independent application development company based in sunny South Florida. They specialize in creating beautiful, functional and creative iOS apps that will always bring a smile to your face. All Material and Software (C) 2010-2012 Zen Labs LLC / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, the iPod logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. iTunes is a trademark of Apple Inc. Apple, Inc. shares no affiliations with Zen Labs LLC or Kid-Capsule. Apple, Inc. does not endorse this contest, Zen Labs LLC or Kid-Capsule.

Valentine’s Update for Graphic Node’s Pages Templates

Sakiai, Lithuania – Graphic Node, a graphic design company that specializes in creating themes, templates, and illustrations for Mac OS X, introduces yet another update to its Pages Templates collection. In addition to 712 layouts from the previous version, the updated variety contains 71 new slickly designed, elegant templates for Apple’s Pages. These include 50 cute templates for Valentine’s day cards.

“Our Pages Templates product gives a mixed bag of unique and easily customizable designs for Apple’s Pages at a terrifically low price,” said Jolita Unguvaitiene, general manager of Graphic Node. “The Valentine’s day update contains a mass of wonderful ways to express your love for those who deserve it.”

The Pages Templates pack includes 783 templates, designed to give a stylish look to text content and permitting users to focus on their message rather than grapple with design. Most of the templates contain several layouts, so the set offers a total of over 1100 layouts to cater to users’ varied requirements. All photo layouts feature media placeholders, allowing users to crop a placed image neatly into a custom shape.

The upgraded package maintains the diverse selection of template types introduced in the earlier versions, such as Greeting Card, Letter, Poster, and even Playing Cards. Most of the 783 templates included are available for printing on both A4 paper, the standard size prevalent in most countries in the world, and US Letter, the most common paper format in the United States and Canada.

Users can view samples of the themes and purchase Pages Templates on the Graphic Node website. After the product is downloaded and installed on a computer, the new themes will automatically appear in the Templates Chooser of Pages. The collection is also available on the Mac App Store.

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5 or later
* iWork 08 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Pages Templates is only $24.99 (USD).

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Graphic Node is a graphic design company based in Lithuania. It is committed to creating exceptional templates and themes for the Mac OS X community. It launched in 2011 and now offers an extensive choose of beautifully crated themes for iWork, iWeb and other applications. The small team of dedicated professionals at Graphic Node works hard to ensure the consistent quality of their products and maintains a constant focus on their users. Copyright 2011-2012 Graphic Node. All Rights Reserved. Apple and the Apple logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U. S and/or other countries.