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Part of the Dalet and AmberFin team at NAB 2014

Dalet Broadens On
AmberFin Acquisition
D

alet Digital Media Systems has
signed a deﬁnitive agreement
with Advent Venture Partners
to acquire AmberFin, the highly
regarded, UK-based company that
specialises in video ingest, complex
media manipulation, transcoding
and quality control (QC) solutions.
The acquisition significantly
broadens the Dalet product offerings,
which are built around an open, ITcentric technology framework.
It affirms the company's
dominance in MAM and media
workﬂow management by creating
end-to-end solutions that include
comprehensive MAM capabilities
along with state-of-the art image
processing, media transcoding and
distribution.
"This acquisition allows us to offer
the industry the most advanced level
of workﬂow options. AmberFin has
been at the forefront in mastering
media, including transcoding and
video quality control. The company
has spearheaded many widely
adopted industry standards such
as MXF and AS-02. Its talent and
expertise directly complement
Dalet's strengths in enterprise MAMdriven solutions," said David Lasry,
CEO of Dalet.
"By melding our resources and
innovative technologies, we can
enrich both the Dalet and AmberFin
products to offer the most complete
and forward-thinking solutions
for content providers to optimise
their human resources and media
assets. From ingest through
multiplatform delivery, operators
in News, Sports and Programming
will reap tremendous efﬁciencies
and productivity by applying our
combined technologies."
AmberFin has headquarters in
Basingstoke, United Kingdom and
Dalet will continue to develop and

support the AmberFin product line
from that location.
Jeremy Deaner is stepping down
as CEO of AmberFin but is serving
as a consultant for a period of time
to facilitate the transition.
With combined revenues of more
than US$55 million, an enhanced
global presence, and an impressive
roster of talent, technology, products
and customers, Dalet solidiﬁes its
MAM leadership role and is well
positioned to advance its corporate
and technology goals.
At NAB, Dalet announced the
release of its second generation
application programming
interface - API2.
The new SOA-compliant Web
Services API2 provides a high
level of interoperability and
straightforward integration with
third-party broadcast and corporate
systems and applications.
API2 will simplify and empower
third-party integration with new
capabilities.
Backed by back-ofﬁce services, a
BPM workﬂow engine and a wide
range of features, Dalet API2 is a key
component in making Dalet Galaxy
an enterprise-class platform.
Also unveiled at NAB was a
new release of its Dalet Xtend
module for Adobe Premiere Pro
CC, which makes it possible for
Adobe Premiere Pro CC editors to
browse, access and share media
and assets stored on the Dalet
content catalogue.
Video assets, EDLs and shot
lists are accessible from the Adobe
Premiere Pro CC interface.
The tight Dalet-Adobe integration
also offers advanced functionality,
such as "edit-while-record" which
is ideal for fast-paced news and
sports workflows.

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