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1 Beyond Introduces Pro HD Flex Customizable and Affordable HD Product Line (13/5/2005)

--Built to meet customers' unique needs setting a new industry bar for real-time uncompressed HD at $14,995.--

1 Beyond, Inc., a leading provider of digital video editing and compositing systems, today announced a new uniquely customizable line of HD systems for postproduction professionals. Called 1 Beyond Pro HD Flex(tm), this new concept in product design allows customers to specify dozens of parameters to meet their exact workflow needs and budgets. 1 Beyond Pro HD Flex will be demonstrated for the fist time at NAB 2005 on booth number SL 3967.

1 Beyond Pro HD Flex customers can chose different types of chassis, I/O cards, editing software, storage options, compression cards, HD formats, graphics software, render engines, etc. The price for a fully featured uncompressed real-time SD/HD system with 1TB of removable disk is $14, 995.

Terry Cullen, 1 Beyond CEO and Founder explains: "In this industry, one size does not fit all. Customers have different workflow, technical, and budget requirements - and they want choices. Our customers are the inspiration for the 1 Beyond Pro HD Flex. If a user has a noisy environment we offer the reduced fatigue with our Silent Partner(tm) option. If user productivity and asset sharing are required, we add our Harmony(tm) HD Storage Area Network and for graphics productivity we can combine the SAN with our Redline(tm) render farm suitable for any size facility. If high performance / smooth editing are high priority, we offer HotRock(tm) storage with a 400 MB/s disk. If "online all the time" is a requirement, we deliver up to 16TBs of HD storage. If portability is important, we will build a mobile system that boasts more processing power than most desktop systems so that users can edit in the most demanding formats including HD, wherever they are," adds Cullen.

1 Beyond HD Pro Flex customizable feature sets include:

* Chassis choices: double wide tall tower, double wide short tower, server tower, rack mount, mobile portable, Whisper Quiet * I/O cards choices: Bluefish 444, Blackmagic, Canopus, Firewire * High-speed Professional Encoding / Compression options: Tarari, Inlet, Modulus Technology * Storage options: Local, remote (Fiber Channel, SATA, SCSI, iSCSI), 1 Beyond Harmony(tm) SAN, 1 Beyond Harmony(tm) NAS, 1 Beyond Silent Partner(tm) * Software options: Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Xpress HD, Sony Vegas, Canopus Edius, Avid Softimage|XSI, Alias Maya, Boris Blue, AutoDesk combustion, Eyeon Digital Fusion, Adobe After Effects and more * Formats: SD/HD compressed and uncompressed up to 1080i, including real-time, HDV on workstations or portables up to 1080i

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