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Digital Rapids Shows CarbonHD 1.0 Versatile HD/SD DDR (20/9/2005)

Digital Rapids CarbonHD 1.0 software will receive it's first public showing at IBC 2005. The CarbonHD software runs on the Digital Rapids DRC-5500 capture hardware.

"The DRC-5500 hardware found inside the CarbonHD has been shipping with StreamZHD software for HD/SD ingest and transcoding since early Q2 2005. CarbonHD is a new software application bundled with the hardware to add playout capabilities and DDR functionality." says Brick Eksten, President of Digital Rapids Corporation. "CarbonHD is the natural progression of our software development efforts, adding SD/HD editing and playback to our extensive capture and encoding application suite."

Carbon 1.0 features include:

- Ingest HD or SD SDI video and embedded SDI audio or AES audio - Format convert on the fly during ingest from any format to any format (e.g., 1080i to 720p) - Frame accurate deck capture or crash recording - Create playlist with multiple clips - Edit in and out points of clips in the play list - Play to SDI output and/or VGA output - Print to tape - Format convert on the fly to any format during play out - Export to a unified clip (MXF, MPEG, WM9, QuickTime, Real, AVI, Flash)

Carbon 1.0 ships as a turnkey system. It is also available as an optional paid upgrade for StreamZHD customers. CarbonHD is expected to begin shipping November 2005.

www.digital-rapids.com

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