film production.
At NAB ‘98 we introduced a major new product: the DPS Perception RT, a dual-
stream real-time disk recording and editing system. It won an “NAB Prime Time
Product” award from both PC Graphics and Video and Digital Studio magazines, a
designation reserved for the most innovative digital products shown at NAB. A 1999
Videography magazine review said: “DPS Perception RT3DX with VideoAction is
the best under-$15,000 nonlinear editing bundle I have seen.”
In addition to an expanding line of video products that “push the envelope” of price
and performance, DPS continues to extend its capabilities in other ways. In the
summer of 1997 we purchased the award-winning software company Star Media,
creators of the Video Action line of video editing software. They are now “DPS
Software.” The integration of our traditional hardware strengths with some of the
industry’s best software help us to maintain our position as a leader in desktop video
solutions.
Continuing to evolve with the needs of the animation market, in 1999 DPS introduced
dpsReality, a Studio Digital Disk Recorder (SDDR). Designed for animators, 2D
artists and broadcast designers, this powerful new animation tool has all the power
and functionality of the company’s industry-standard-setting DPS Perception (PVR),
plus powerful new software. dpsReality sets new industry standards with capabilities
such as mixed-mode compressed and/or uncompressed video, alpha-channel storage
and playback (4:2:2:4), onboard disk control and video I/O, and more, all on a single
universal PCI slot card
Also introduced in 1999 was DPS’ new real-time, non-linear video editing solution:
dpsVelocity. Designed for digital video professionals, dpsVelocity boasts extensive
real-time capabilities such as real-time filters, hundreds of ready to go 2D/3D
transitions, rolling/crawling titles, and on-the-fly volume/EQ controls for 8 channels
of guaranteed synchronized audio. The combination of dpsVelocity and dpsReality
delivers quality that surpasses Digital Betacam and has the ability to handle
uncompressed video.
At NAB 2000, DPS ignited the show with its eBroadcast initiative and dpsNetstream
technology. These included instantaneous web video output from its new version of
dpsVelocity, which featured ultra-fast output of the most popular web video formats,
including Ligos GoMotion-powered MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, RealNetworks
RealVideo, Microsoft AVI and Apple QuickTime. The new version of dpsReality
expanded the definition of Studio Digital Disk Recorder (SDDR) by adding features
such as real-time output to popular web-based streaming media formats and real-time
output to multicast web servers, along with deck emulation, unrivaled media handling
capabilities with support for every major studio file format, improved networking,
expanded audio effects and an all-new compositing interface with a direct connection
to eyeon Software’s Digital Fusion Version 3.0. Strategic agreements with Ligos
Technology and RealNetworks enabled the integration of Ligos GoMotion MPEG
codec technology and the RealMedia format into the industry-leading dpsNetstream
architecture to deliver real-time encoding across DPS’s Post Production product lines.
Also at NAB 2000, DPS unveiled a new set of plug-ins enabling compatibility with
Adobe Premiere, for users who coveted the performance of DPS’ popular dpsReality
hardware but were reluctant to leave their familiar Adobe Premiere editing interface.
Security
In 1998 DPS combined its proven digital-disk recording technology with
sophisticated software tools and networking capability to create a new security
product: the Digital Detective, a truly integrated digital video time-lapse event
recorder. The Digital Detective combined a digital video recorder, a motion detector, a
multiplexer and a text inserter, plus it had the capability of being accessed remotely.
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