New Product Launching:

CINEMA CRAFT® Xtream

The Ultimate "ON-LINE" MPEG-2 Encoder-Rack Mount Turnkey System for Standard Definition DVD

January 7th, 2005 - CINEMA CRAFT, Inc. is pleased to announce that an innovative new encoder, CINEMA CRAFT® Xtream [CCX] was released on January 7th, 2005.

CINEMA CRAFT, Inc. provides the highest performance MPEG-2 encoders to high-end C&A houses, such as the Hollywood Industry. CINEMA CRAFT® Encoder [CCE] Pro has been used to produce the outstanding picture quality on scores of DVD titles worldwide. It is a great honor for us to state that Technicolor Creative Services (www.technicolor.com), a world leader in DVD compression and authoring, uses the CINEMA CRAFT® as its primary encoding engine for major studio collectors edition releases.

CCX is the ultimate MPEG-2 encoder for SD DVD. Check out some of highlights of CCX version 1.01.

Highlights:

- Completely New Powerful Encoding Engine
- Virtual Multi-Pass Encoding [VMPE]
- Advanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix [AAQM]
- Advanced Adaptive GOP Structure [AAGS]
- Preview
- Segment Re-Encoding [SRE]
- Field-based Automatic Scene Change Detection
- SDI output

(VMPE: Virtual Multi-pass Encoding; AAQM: Advanced Adaptive Quantize Matrix; and AAGS: Advanced Adaptive GOP Structure) - CCX performs between 2 and 8 passes in "real time" during each encoding pass. During the Virtual 2 and 8 passes (The amount of passes depends on the complexity of the content), CCX automatically optimizes for the best quantize matrices and GOP structure.

(Preview and SRE: Segment Re-Encoding) - CCX allows you to preview your tweaking before encoding and re-encode just a segment.

Learn more at the OMNI-CINEMA CRAFT website.