Media & Entertainment Digital Content Creation
  • Encoding
    From Mobile to HD Optical Disc, a broad scope of encoding solutions is available from Microsoft and its partners. These include full content creation applications as well as targeted, live and offline encoding products for video and audio.
  • Codecs
    Experience unmatched audio and video quality at various resolutions and bit rates. Windows Media audio and video codecs deliver the best scalability, flexibility, and affordability in the market. Supported by a huge ecosystem of content creation solutions, Windows Media codecs are supported on a broad range of platforms and consumer devices.
  • High Performance Computing
    Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is the de-facto way to scale your digital content creation related workloads from the workstation to a cluster environment to gain access to vast computing and memory resources. To learn how you can easily and efficiently harness the power of High Performance Computing and boost your productivity visit www.microsoft.com/hpc.
  • Microsoft Expression
    Better Designer Tools for Better End-User Experiences - Microsoft Expression takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality—whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content.
  • Digital Content Creation - Partner Solutions
    • Agnostic Media
      Agnostic Media, Inc., is a software platform technology company with a wide range of SOA-based products for enterprise, on-demand/utility, and distributed computing environments. Agnostic offers an integrated, comprehensive, and cohesive platform for managing digital media production.
    • Avid Solutions
      Avid Solutions has become the world leader in digital media creation tools for film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast professionals – as well as for home video and home audio enthusiasts. Today, the vast majority of primetime television shows, feature films, commercials, and chart-topping pop music hits are made using one or more Avid products. And the company has received the most prestigious awards in the industries it serves – including three Emmys, a Grammy, and two Oscar statuettes: the 1998 Scientific and Technical Award for the concept, design, and engineering of the Avid Film Composer system for motion picture editing, and the 2003 Scientific and Technical Award for the design, development, and implementation of the Pro Tools digital audio workstation.
    • Anystream
      Anystream Agility software is the first choice of the world's leading broadcasters, providing unparalleled reliability and performance to the mission-critical process of converting media from on-air to online applications. Broadcasters trust Agility to automatically ingest content from live, tape or digital file sources; preprocess video color, size and composition; encode video into different streaming and transcoding formats; and deliver finished files to Web or play-to-air servers and syndication partners around the globe.
    • Rhozet
      Rhozet is focused on one goal: to provide universal media transcoding. The boom in video consumption has resulted in an explosion in the number of formats that content creators and distributors must manage. Video may be captured in one format, edited in another, served live in a third, delivered on-demand via the Web and mobile in half a dozen more and then finally archived in yet another. Rhozet’s products provide cost-effective and rapid transcoding across a wide range of applications from small studios to the largest enterprises.
    • Telestream
      Telestream MAP is a media engine for SharePoint, enabling access to and collaboration with audio and video files, just as users do with other Office documents. It's the perfect media organizer for corporate training and communications, government and education users as well as content creators in any production environment. Telestream’s FlipFactory console is a Java applet running in a Web browser. End users use the console to create & manage accounts; build & update factories; and submit & monitor jobs.