RaveHD 2.0 Officially ships

(Oakdale, California -- March 27, 2006) SpectSoft LLC., a leading provider of uncompressed video solutions on the Linux platform, today announced RaveHD 2.0 officially begins shipping and will be showing at the upcoming NAB convention in Las Vegas.

SpectSofts newest version not only offers new features that include reverse audio, slave record, deck standby, and 2K HSDL support but the overhaul of the existing code base now takes RaveHD 2.0 to a client/server product and makes this product an extensive VTR replacement solution. The client/server implementation allows studios to control many DDRs from a single interface in addition to making the GUI modular and easily modified. RaveHD also supports both PCI and PCIe I/O boards on both the Intel and AMD platforms in addition to new support for the Nvidia products. "RaveHD is data agnostic and can now offer this same approach to the hardware it sits on", states Ramona Howard, President of SpectSoft. "All of these changes make RaveHD a great deck replacement, with a bunch of cool tools for a variety of workflows."

RaveHD supports uncompressed SD, HD, Dual Link HD(4:4:4) and 2k(HSDL) in a single system as well as hardware accelerated upconverting and downconverting. The RaveHD Xenon system features integrated RS-422 hardware that allows for both slave and master control, unlimited scalability, dual 10/100/1000 gigabit Ethernet and includes Fiber and Firewire upgrade options. Features such as the frame oriented, standard file system storage, centralized database asset tracking, embedded timecode, embedded audio, Varicam flagging, programmable cadence engine(2:3, 3:2:3, 2:3:3:2, etc) and conform capabilities all in a simple to use interface are all standard in every RaveHD system. RaveHD works natively with DPX frames but does offer some built-in tools for those working with Quicktime and other formats in addition to tools that allow embedding audio in/out of the DPX frames.

Some of the immediately apparent changes in RaveHD would be the user friendly interface and added deck functionality whereas the underlying code changes are less apparent but far more powerful. A few of the major changes in the structure is the ability to add additional hardware easily, which will be shown at NAB and the ability to pass everything around using XML. " XML has proven to be a robust way of passing everything from commands to data around", comments Jason Howard, Lead Programmer. "RaveHD 2.0 is the release that brings everything together that we have been working on for several years", adds Howard.

"The development of 2.0 has taken a bit longer than anticipated and we are exited to finally get this out there. RaveHD can be seen at several upcoming demos which include Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Also based on what our customers were asking us for, this year we have taken the demos at NAB to a private suite at the Hilton", states Howard. RaveHD can be seen on the showroom floor in several booths (Central Hall C2548 and South Hall SU3819) and will be a great place for passerbys to see uncompressed video running on the Linux OS but the suite is where the hardcore demos will be done. Interested individuals can contact SpectSoft for both private and group demos.

Priced at $25,000, the RaveHD Xenon System features 6TB of local storage in a SATA array configuration(upgradeable to 9.6 and 12TB) and offers one of the highest quality video solutions on the market today, addressing many concerns seen by other systems. "This system is a great solution for not only the traditional DDR but as a deck replacement altogether", states Ramona Howard, President of SpectSoft. "The feature set we have built into RaveHD is unlike any other software package on the market today and it just keeps getting better with the development help we see from our customers."

About SpectSoft, LLC The brainchild of a mother and son team, was founded in 1997 to serve the film, media, and broadcast industries. Since its inception, SpectSoft has worked on technical projects with some of the industries biggest and brightest companies like Dreamworks Animation (Glendale, CA), The Orphanage and Tippett Studio (Berkeley, CA) and continue to push the envelope and further the state of the art in the film pipeline process. Throughout the years, SpectSoft has been able to maintain a relatively small footprint and the family values and ownership that make it so unique. For further information, please see www.spectsoft.com