Building Cross-Platform Media Workgroup Solutions

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 109, No. 3, pp. 200–204
Abstract: This paper presents several essential development considerations pertinent to the creation of a new nonlinear editing (NLE) system operating on the Windows NT platform. A significant factor is that the new system is based on a product initially developed for the Macintosh. The initial product operated with Apple's QuickTime file-compatible standard, which offered several advantages resulting from the program's file architecture. The resulting NLE developed by Media 100 Inc. is called iFinish. The product is a cross-platform compatible system that permits easy access to the hardware by other applications as well as the use of a substantial number of QuickTime-compatible software applications. Also, the initial signal architecture readily lends itself to the inclusion of more recent interface standards including DV (IEEE 1394) and serial digital interface (SDI, SMPTE 259M). This is a consequence of the inherent flexibility stemming from the design choices initially made. Based on the ITU-R BT.601 YCrCb, structure, the system design also interfaces to component analog video (CAV) component analog, S-Video, and National Television Standard Committee (NTSC) or phase alternation line (PAL) sources.
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
DOI: 10.5594/J08348
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J08348
Author(s): David E. AckerMedia 100 Inc., Marlboro, MA 01752
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David E. Acker is currently employed by Media 100 Inc., where he is responsible for developing new products related to the company's nonlinear editing systems. Acker received a BEE degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1961, and in 1965 he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an MSEE. Acker has been working in the field of analog and digital processing related to television signals since 1972. He has developed numerous time base corrector, frame synchronizer, encoder, decoder, noise reduction, and serial digital products. Acker, a SMPTE Fellow, has contributed numerous papers to SMPTE, NAB, IBC, Montreux, and Electronic Imaging conferences on a variety of subjects related to television.
Copyright: © 2000 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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