New Presence Helps AmberFin Extend Support and Gain Access to Top Industry Talent
BURBANK, Calif. October 28, 2009 — AmberFin today announces the establishment of its new North American headquarters in Burbank, California, expanding its operations to meet the demand for best-in-class image quality for HD/SD ingest, video conversion and transcoding worldwide. Following on the heels of a newly announced deal with Warner Brothers, the opening of the Burbank office is the latest step in AmberFin’s North American market strategy and provides the company with ready access to the $68 billion entertainment industry while also extending customer support coverage to 20 hours a day.
Blue Order partners with AmberFin to integrate iCR into its Media Archive offering
BURBANK, Calif. – October 15, 2009 – AmberFin today announces that Blue Order Solutions AG has signed an OEM agreement to incorporate and resell AmberFin’s industry-leading iCR ingest functionality as part of its Media Archive offering. As a result of this agreement, Blue Order customers will benefit from best-in-class multi-format SD/HD ingest, QC and transcoding, ultra-reliability, easy integration and third party interoperability though AmberFin’s web service APIs.
Leading end-to-end media and technology services provider uses iCR to deliver higher quality content for film and broadcast giants
BURBANK, Calif, October 9, 2009 – AmberFin today announces its collaboration with Ascent Media UK, part of Ascent Media Group – the world’s largest provider of integrated global services for the creation, management and distribution of media content. As part of the relationship Ascent has integrated AmberFin’s iCR software into its existing content management systems, enabling the company to deliver enhanced quality media content via a range of different formats to some of the world’s largest film and broadcast companies.
State of the art closed captioning technology integrates with award-winning iCR software
BURBANK, Calif. – September 15, 2009 – AmberFin is pleased to announce a new partnership with Starfish Technologies, formally agreed at today’s IBC. Under the terms of the partnership, Starfish’s closed captioning technology will be integrated into AmberFin’s iCR software from late 2009, when it launches with first customer Warner Brothers Technical Services.
AmberFin iCR ingest and transcode solution to deliver highest quality masters on the market
BURBANK, Calif. and HOLLYWOOD, Calif. September 14, 2009 — AmberFin today announces it will deliver a state of the art JPEG2000 ingest and transcode solution for Warner Bros. Technical Operations’ DETE workflow and distribution system. The new solution will deliver high-quality servicing masters, while enabling Warner Bros. Technical Operations to significantly improve workflow compatibility and interoperability.
New channel offerings make best use of Avid infrastructure for workflow and cost efficiencies
BURBANK, Calif. –September 12, 2009 – AmberFin today announced the launch of Avid Connect and Camera Connect as part of a new partner offering, available through the AmberFin channel partner program. The packages make better use of the Avid infrastructure and further simplify the AmberFin iCR product proposition. This in turn enables reliable ingest for high quality content creation, as well as ingest in a live environment.
AmberFin Avid Connect makes best use of the Avid infrastructure by incorporating AmberFin iCR’s unique ingest solution. The award winning iCR software provides best-in-class ingest direct to Avid storage without tying up an edit station. It enables the creation of cost effective workflows, with batch ingest and automation to create MXF wrapped DNxHD and MPEG2 directly into your Avid environments. When working with Interplay, Avid Connect even more
AmberFin iCR software adds JPEG 2000, closed captioning, MXF AS02 and AVID Interplay support
BURBANK, Calif. – 11th, September, 2009 – AmberFin today announced the launch of AmberFin iCR Version 5.0, incorporating a number of enhancements designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of content producers and broadcasters.
The latest version of the award-winning iCR software introduces workflows with the JPEG 2000 codec, which is rapidly becoming the format of choice for high quality mastering worldwide. It also enables the application of closed captioning for US and European broadcast delivery requirements during the transcoding process. To further streamline the transcoding process, version 5.0 also adds MXF AS02 support and Avid Interplay.
London, UK – 1st September, 2009 – AmberFin today announces the appointment of Adrian Smith as its new Vice President of Sales in the Asia Pacific region. In his new role Adrian will be responsible for leading AmberFin’s Asia Pacific growth, driving new business opportunities and developing the channel offering in line with the company’s global strategy.
Adrian brings with him a wealth of experience in the broadcast, TV and film industries. Prior to joining AmberFin, Adrian held the role of Enterprise Key Accounts Manager for AVID. He joined Avid from his previous role of Director of Operations and Sales Asia Pacific for Sundance, which was acquired by AVID in 2006.
London, UK – 25th August, 2009 – AmberFin today announces the appointment of Paula Bargery as Vice President Sales EMEA. In this role, Paula will be responsible for further bolstering AmberFin’s profile in the region, driving growth and customer acquisition through all sales channels.
With over 20 years’ sales experience, Paula’s expertise crosses both broadcast specific and enterprise software. Paula joins AmberFin from Infor, the enterprise software company. Prior to this Paula was Director of Business Software Sales EMEA at Harris Corporation specialising in airtime sales, scheduling, content management and automation. Paula’s career began in broadcasting, working in airtime sales for ITV.
Burbank, 14, JULY, 2009 – AmberFin today announces the addition of Bridge Digital Inc to its global partner program and network of authorized resellers in North America. The announcement is part of AmberFin’s Global Partner Program to develop and forge new channel and OEM partnerships internationally.
Under the agreement, Bridge Digital will resell AmberFin’s iCR ingest, video conversion, automated/assisted QC and transcoding software tools in South and South East USA.
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