Spruce DVD Authoring Ease-Of-Use And Speed Make The Difference For Vidfilm Digital Media

31-Mar-00

Vidfilm, a leading post production facility based in Glendale, California, has switched to the award-wining Spruce Technologies' DVDMaestroô (www.sprucetechnologies.com) authoring system as the foundation for its recent and ongoing expansion. Vidfilm is using the system to author DVD titles for industry leaders such as Sony Pictures and Miramax films. Kirk Kessler, Director of Digital Media for Vidfilm, said, ""We started out in the DVD world using other systems, but when we found ourselves expanding we took a look at Spruce. We liked the ease of authoring and Spruce's MPX3000 encoder board looked very good. In fact, the look of it is as good or better than many of the other encoders I've used. We're very pleased with the system so far. We also very excited about the things Spruce has shown us that are coming in future versions."" Vidfilm is using Spruce DVDStationô-MX, a complete DVD encoding and authoring solution that integrates Spruce's flagship DVDMaestro authoring system with Spruce's industry-leading MPX-3000 hardware encoder in a high-performance Windows NT computer. Kessler said, ""One of the strong features that attracted us to Spruce was how easy it is to author on DVDMaestro. Not only is it completely graphical, but its very efficient. Spruce handles a lot of the overhead for you. As a manager, it's a lot easier for me to bring somebody in and train him or her to work on a Spruce than on any other authoring machine."" Chris Sendejas, Lead Author for Vidfilm, added, ""The new Version 2.5 software also meets the needs of the advanced, technically-capable user. Spruce started by making it easy for a person to simply walk in and author. Now they are opening the application so advanced users can get their hands dirty with coding. For example, Spruce has added support for a remarkable 128 registers, which enables us to make very sophisticated titles with far fewer headaches than with other DVD authoring systems. Spruce offers us some big plusses because it includes networking capability and it is on the Windows NT platform. These features, combined with the interface mean that in day-to-day applications, a Spruce project typically goes three times faster than any other authoring tool."" More information about Vidfilm is available at www.vidfilm.net. About Spruce Technologies, Inc. Spruce Technologies develops and markets DVD and WebDVD authoring software and MPEG encoders for the corporate, new media, and entertainment markets. Based in San Jose, California, Spruce combines the best Silicon Valley software expertise with extensive DVD, MPEG and video postproduction knowledge. For more information, contact Spruce at 408 861 2200. Additional information about Spruce is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.sprucetechnologies.com.

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