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Archimedia Technology Releases
Accessible Enterprise Player
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rchimedia Technology has
released the Archimedia
Enterprise Player, which comes free
with an active support agreement.
The new product is designed
for all stakeholders - expert or
not - who must be able to view
professional video reliably and
precisely in order to do their
jobs, especially those who need
specialised technical support to
deal with professional media.
Enterprise Player users could
range from those who lack
the technical expertise to use
professional video tools, to video
experts who simply need to
review their work without tying up
an edit suite.
They could come not only
from media and entertainment
organisations, but from any business
that uses video in its operations,
advertising, training, public relations,
websites, exhibitions, public areas,
and employee desktops.
Archimedia say that the Enterprise
Player is appropriate not only for

Precise reliable video viewing via Archimedia Enterprise Player

professional editors, colourists
and compressionists, but also for
non-technical supervisors, project
managers, salespeople, lawyers,
writers, producers, videotape
dubbers, data I/O technicians, and
anyone else associated with that
business - all of whom must work
together to keep the video projects
and the business on track.
"The Archimedia Master Player is
the world's most sophisticated and
precise professional media player,
and it has become the reference

standard in major movie studios,
archives, and broadcast networks
around the world.
Now we're bringing the expertise
and software tools that we
developed for the studios to anyone
needing quality and precision in
everyday viewing," said Mark
Gray, Archimedia President and
CEO. "Archimedia's new Enterprise
Player is intended to ﬁnd its way
into the ofﬁce of every producer and
executive - and the ofﬁces of their
staff. In the past, people used VTRs

when they needed to view video.
Now that type of convenience
and efﬁciency is available with the
Archimedia Enterprise Player on any
desktop or laptop."
The Enterprise Player augments
the robust Archimedia Master Player,
giving expert users a fast, accurate,
reliable media player with which to
check their work or view mediaspecific data.
The Archimedia Enterprise Player
plays all professional and consumer
video and audio formats except
for JPEG 2000, DPX, and 4K/UHD,
which are found only in cinematic
or production masters.
The Enterprise Player can play
captions and subtitles in more than
80 external formats and more than
50 embedded formats, and all video
can play to a normal TV over HDMI
so that what the user sees is real
TV rather than a PC approximation.
The player also delivers accurate
audio in all modes - fast forward,
rewind, slow, and scrub.
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Nexidia To Demonstrate Latest Updates At IBC2014
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t IBC2014, Nexidia will
demonstrate Nexidia QC version
2.3, an automated, ﬁle-based QC
application that can automatically
test critical components of media
with proprietary technology - tests
that Nexidia say, until now, could
only be performed manually.
Nexidia QC contains unique tests
to verify that closed captions are
not only present, but also correct
in terms of content, completeness,
and timing, which Nexidia claim no
other media QC application can do.
Additionally, Nexidia QC can
report on the presence of video
descriptions and can identify
the audio languages that are
present with the media. Nexidia
QC automates manual processes
to reduce operating expenses,
automatically identifies and
corrects caption timing errors to
avoid regulatory ﬁnes, and enables
a higher-quality experience for
viewers across all platforms.
Nexidia QC has an API that
allows it to integrate easily into
other workﬂow and QC applications.
Version v2.3 will include several
new features:
* Caption retiming;
* Caption/subtitle text language
veriﬁcation;
* Expanded caption formats
supported (STL, EBU-IT, ITT);

Nexidia Dialogue Search provides a powerful asset location tool

* Language ID technology update
with expanded language support;
* Dialect veriﬁcation.
At
IBC2014,
Nexidia
will demonstrate Dialogue
Search version 1.6.
It is hailed as the world's only
software tool that searches for any
spoken word or phrase, independent
of metadata, across massive media
libraries in seconds.
The patented technology behind
Dialogue Search allows media
organisations to make better use

of their media libraries by quickly
and precisely ﬁnding unique assets
that searching traditional metadata
could never reveal.
Dialogue Search dramatically
reduces logging and transcription
costs, integrates directly with
media asset management and
editing applications, and requires
no training. Version v1.6 will include
several new features:
* Dialogue Search RESTful API
to provide Nexidia search
capabilities within any application,

including metadata ﬁltering and
search;
* Integration with the Dalet Media
Life MAM;
* Enhanced integration with Square
Box's CatDV.
Nexidia's patented technologies
and breakthrough applications make
it quick and easy for customers
to gain new insight, boost their
competitive advantage and
monetise large volumes of audio
and video assets.

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