(Oakdale, California -- January, 2008) SpectSoft LLC., a leading provider of uncompressed video solutions announced that RaveHD 3.0 now supports the use of the StorNext® filesystem.

"We are delighted to announce the integration of Moving RaveHD into a SAN environment”, comments Ramona Howard, CEO of SpectSoft. "This will enable our customers to adopt a more collaborative and efficient way of working as well as introducing higher levels of flexibility into their workflows for better use of resources".

"Working closely with current client Cineworks in Florida the focus was SAN as everything else with RaveHD fit exactly to their needs", adds Howard. "Transferring from film in 4:4:4 RGB, 1920x1080 HD dual link video for independent features directly into the SAN thru RaveHD has saved them tremendous amounts of time".

The Cineworks workflow - in a nutshell
"In the past, we were using another product to ingest the dual link video from an SR deck", comments Mike Most, Chief Technologist at Cineworks. "We wanted to streamline this workflow for a number of reasons. Efficiency was one primary reason, but we also wanted to eliminate any video compression if possible, even though the compression used in the SR format is very light and has very minimal impact on the image itself. We also wanted to be able to share the files for things such as visual effects and title work, something that we were finding ourselves doing more and more of. It was clear that a high performance SAN was a central part of the solution, but we also needed a device that would work with our DaVinci based telecine controllers and allow the dual link video to be converted to a DPX sequence on the fly under the DaVinci TLC editing control. It was vital that the device look like a standard VTR to the DaVinci, but actually function as a real time DPX recorder. Ideally, the device could also be set up as a client on the SAN, allowing us to go directly from telecine to the SAN, writing the DPX files with proper time code embedding directly to a SAN volume.

"The RaveHD and BrightDrive systems support the Quantum SNFS client, which makes it completely transparent across multiple operating systems. This was critical for us, as we use both Windows PC's and Apple Macintosh computers, and it was critical for operation of the RaveHD, which is a Linux based device. The BrightDrive system is designed specifically for dealing with large file" sequences and is "sequence aware," allowing for optimization and maximum performance for things like the DPX file sequences that are at the heart of our workflow. In addition, the RaveHD has 6 TB of its own local storage, allowing us to use it as a standalone VTR replacement as well as a gateway to the SAN. When space on the SAN needs to be conserved, we can record to the Raves local storage and do a very fast copy to the SAN volume when needed. And finally, the RaveHD can be used to play back sequences that are stored on the SAN, giving us another way to record rendered sequences from projects to tape without having to use other systems and applications".

" The combined efforts of SpectSoft (RaveHD), Cinesys (integration, installation, and support of the SAN and all connected devices), Bright Systems (SAN supplier), and Quantum (StorNext) made this workflow possible for us".

“We are delighted to be working with SpectSoft,” said Antony Harris, CEO, Bright Systems, Inc. “BrightDrive’s powerful media sharing features and its consistent high performance and reliability continue to make it the choice of leading systems developers as their customers seek out more interoperability and collaboration for their post-production workflows.”

RaveHD is proving to be the choice of many studios to use as a true deck replacement in many aspects of the workflow. Priced well below many of the competing products and offering up far more flexibility, RaveHD continues to evolve into a critical workhorse and continues to focus on the workflow. "RaveHD has always been about being a product that can easily be dropped into any studio infrastructure and immediately bridge the gap between film, video and data and Cineworks is using this to it's utmost potential", comments Jason Howard, Lead Developer for SpectSoft.

About SpectSoft - SpectSoft, LLC The brainchild of a mother and son team, was founded in 1997 to serve the film, media, and broadcast industries. Since it's inception, SpectSoft has worked on technical projects with some of the industries biggest and brightest companies and throughout the years, SpectSoft has been able to maintain a relatively small footprint and the family values and ownership that make it so unique. RaveHD details can be found at www.spectsoft.com