Hearst-Argyle Television selects 1 Beyond to update WCVB Channel 5 Boston’s graphics facility

-- New graphics workflow technology results in significant productivity boost for artists --

Somerville, Mass. (February 4th, 2005) — 1 Beyond, Inc., a leading provider of digital video editing and compositing systems today announced that it was recently selected by Hearst-Argyle Television to revamp WCVB Channel 5 Boston’s postproduction department with their new state-of-the-art graphics workflow technology. The new installation will completely replace WCVB’s previous equipment and includes the 1 Beyond Harmony SAN™ and Redline Render Farm™ combined with fiber-attached 1 Beyond Artist Pro™ workstations powered by BlueFish444 capture cards. 

This new breakthrough approach to graphics workflow brings together the established strengths of render farms and high performance graphics workstations with SAN technology into a unified environment. All workstations and render engines simultaneously access the same assets in the central 1 Beyond Harmony SAN, controlled by the Sanbolic SAN software, as though they were on a local disk on each system. This is completely transparent to the user. Assets ingested once, or even those newly developed can be immediately accessed by all workstations eliminating slow copying from one to another. 

The complete graphics workflow including graphics development and rendering of Adobe After Effects and Alias Maya projects is performed without ever moving a file from one workstation to another or to the render engines, speeding the whole process significantly.  This technology and resulting workflow is especially important when working in High Definition with much larger files.

This new installation is already resulting in a substantial productivity boost for the artists, as they no longer have to wait for rendering. They can now be continuously productive because the rendering is completely off-loaded to multiple render engines, resulting in much faster rendering times. This not only improves quality, as fast turnaround allows additional refinement, but also means faster time to air.

Also included is the 1 Beyond 1 Touch Render™ software allows the artist to submit render jobs or check status with one click of the mouse, thereby greatly simplifying and speeding up the submission process.

About 1 Beyond
Founded in 1996, 1 Beyond, Inc. manufactures professional PC-based video editing and compositing systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional high-end systems. This value leadership is due to constant technical innovation including 8 years of industry firsts. 1 Beyond delivers turnkey video systems that provide customers with the highest performance and quality digital workflow in DV, SD and now full 10-bit uncompressed HD. The company offers a wide range of systems including award-winning Laptops, Desktops, Mobiles and Rack mounts used in all phases of editing and compositing. All 1 Beyond’s systems are designed with true open architecture and built on world standards. This insures the customer a continued upgrade path and hence, the longest period for ROI and non-obsolescence. For more information visit www.1Beyond.com.

For further information, please contact:
Véronique Froment
Veronique@highrezpr.com
Tel: 1 603 537 9248