NAB Booth SL9214
News Release - For immediate release

Telestream Expands Products,
Partnerships & Presence at NAB2007

Las Vegas, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention, April 16, 2007 – 
Telestream, the leading global provider of encoding-based media workflow solutions, arrives at this week’s NAB show with innovative new products and major new partnership alliances that continue to keep the company at the forefront of the digital media industry. Telestream flips more formats to more places for more people with powerful, flexible solutions that help users turn the media they have into the media they need – from the desktop to the enterprise. Telestream’s robust media encoding workflow solutions provide the efficiency content owners, creators, and distributors want with the quality they demand.

Located in the South Hall lower level in Booth SL9214, Telestream features its new Pipeline™ network encoder and Episode™ Series compression applications. Pipeline is an industry-first shared network encoding device that provides a more reliable and cost-effective alternative to conventional PC/capture card solutions for tape ingest into file-based workflows. A series of bidirectional single-channel and multi-channel models provide SDI ingest and real-time encoding to multiple formats for Telestream’s FlipFactory, Episode Series and 3rd party products, including Apple’s Final Cut Pro. 

Building on Telestream’s 2006 acquisition of compression-specialist Popwire, the company’s robust Episode Series encoding applications for the Mac make their NAB debut. Scalable from the desktop to clustered network environments, Episode Series offers unprecedented speed, quality and integration at breakthrough prices. NAB demonstrations feature Episode’s unique distributed encoding technology enabling faster-than-real-time encoding to all supported media file formats, including HD. When combined with Apple’s new 8-core Mac Pro hardware, Episode Engine utilizes all cores to deliver unparalleled encoding speed. With affordable new pricing, Telestream extends Episode’s outstanding encoding performance and value to a broad range of Mac users.

At NAB, Telestream and Apple are announcing direct integration between Telestream’s Episode Series and Compresser 3, Apple's industrial strength encoding tool included with Final Cut Studio 2. This industry-first integration expands encoding capabilities for Final Cut users to the extensive array of Episode video and audio file formats with access to encoding settings directly from Final Cut project timelines. Episode integration is being demonstrated in Apple Booth SL5520 and Telestream Booth SL9214.

Telestream’s flagship FlipFactory® enterprise-class workflow automation applications continue to add powerful new features in response to evolving industry needs. At NAB, Telestream features automated ingest for recently-announced HD commercial and syndication workflows from digital delivery service providers. Simultaneous transcoding while ingesting from tape is being demonstrated with the company’s new Pipeline network encoder. Plus, FlipFactory now supports auto-publishing of metadata with media to a greater number of enterprise video websites including Google, AOL and iTunes.

New features for GraphicsFactory™ are also being demonstrated. This template-driven graphics assembly application automates media branding and localization for cost-effective distribution to multiple outlets. New features include audio overlays and ad insertion capabilities.

The Partner Showcase within Telestream’s booth highlights integration of Telestream products with 3rd party solutions, including ClearStory, divergent media, Interwoven, North Plains Systems, Porteck and Screen Subtitling Systems. The series of partner demonstrations features digital asset management, acquisition, post-production, collaboration and open subtitling. Additionally, products from another 18 partner companies are integrated into demonstrations at Telestream’s booth. Plus, Telestream products are included in 27 partner demonstrations throughout the show providing automated ingest, reformatting, proxy generation, file transfer and interoperability in file-based workflows.

Telestream announced other major new partnerships and new partner solutions with Screen Subtitling Systems, North Plains Systems, Porteck and Microsoft. 

• A partnership with video subtitling expert, Screen, yields a new FlipFactory Screen Subtitle Option. The Telestream offering enables FlipFactory users to automatically generate and add burnt-in translations and subtitles to media in the required output formats for delivery to multiple distribution outlets.
• FlipFactory integration with North Plains’ TeleScope Video Manager provides a feature-rich video asset management solution for Mac, Windows and web-based platforms that easily integrates with popular production tools, such as Avid, Apple and Adobe.
• A new partnership with Porteck integrates FlipFactory with Porteck’s RMP (Rich Media Portal) software to extend the efficiencies of Sharepoint Portal 2007 to digital asset management workflows.
• A new Microsoft partner solution integrates FlipFactory with Microsoft’s new Interactive Media Manager to enable automated transcoding in rich media collaborative workflows. Additionally, Telestream continues to support Microsoft’s evolving media formats and environments.

Telestream also announced that they have signed many more resellers worldwide to support the local needs of their customers.  This includes the assignment of Digi-Box.co.uk as the exclusive master distributor of Telestream’s Flip4Mac desktop product resale channel in the UK and Ireland.

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About Telestream (www.telestream.net)  
Telestream products have set the standard with the world's leading media and entertainment companies, corporations, and government institutions for the encoding and delivery of digital media. From plug-in components to desktop craft encoding applications to scalable enterprise-class transcoding systems, Telestream’s workflow solutions save users time, effort and money while increasing revenues. The company's Workgroup & Enterprise solutions and Flip4Mac digital media tools for the Mac streamline media workflows for content owners, creators, and distributors in any industry segment. Telestream and its team of video experts are located in Nevada City, California, USA and in Stockholm, Sweden. The company is privately held.

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