Cinegy releases DANIEL

Cinegy is to announce the release of its Digital ANImation Encoder Library (DANIEL) codec to the public at IBC 2013.

The DANIEL codec is primarily aimed at providing a reliable, scalable and performance optimized codec for the use of video with alpha channel. Common usage includes animations rendered with alpha channel, to be superimposed on live picture or mixed with the output of a video server.

There is no lack of codecs that are supposedly addressing this: Lagarith, Huffyuv, the good old Matrox VfW software codecs and even AVID's DNxHD codec has alpha channel capabilities. The reality until now was though: quality, speed and small file size - choose any two. But customers wanted all three - professional quality, faster than real-time playback with low performance overhead and small files. The Cinegy DANIEL codec meets all these requirements , says Jan Weigner, Managing Director and co-founder, Cinegy.

After more than nine months of development since its inception, the DANIEL codec was first tested internally and then exposed to a wider group of beta testers doing real production environment evaluation. Cinegy now sees the time to go public and expose the DANIEL codec to the world for everyone to see and try

At IBC 2013 a free, time-limited version of the DANIEL codec will be launched that can be obtained from the Cinegy website. It is available as AVI (for Windows) or QT (for Mac OS) codec and any popular animation or effects software can use the Daniel codec for creating files.

All of Cinegy's products have the DANIEL codec integrated by default, for example Cinegy's automation and playout product Cinegy Air can use the DANIEL codec files for animated logos or overlays. Any software supporting AVI or QT codecs can benefit from the DANIEL codec making workflows faster and more efficient.

A paid, commercially supported version of the DANIEL codec will be released in October 2013 for EUR 19 / $25.

Cinegy has more than ten years of experience developing its own DV, HDV, AVC-Intra, XAVC, MPEG2, H.264 and other codecs which are all part of its Cinecoder SDK that is also licensed to other broadcast equipment and software vendors. We develop our own MXF libraries and are honored to be the first company to have AMWA MXF certification for its AS-11 supporting products , continues Weigner

A whitepaper detailing the advantages of the Cinegy DANIEL codec compared to other codecs will be released at the SMPTE 2013 conference in LA in October.

About Cinegy

Cinegy develops innovative video, broadcast and production software solutions, encompassing every aspect of a collaborative workflow including IP Tools, ingest, editing to playout, all connected to an active archive with full Digital Asset Management.

Based on standard IT hardware and non-proprietary storage technology, Cinegy products are reliable, affordable, scalable, easily deployable and intuitive.

Cinegy's Application Areas include:

Media Asset Management & Active Archive

Broadcast Automation and Playout Service

IP Signal Distribution and Monitoring

Workflow

Newsroom

Compositing & Effects, CG and Branding

MPEG Technology / Encoders / Decoders / Transcoders

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