And Demonstrates Seamless End to End Film Finishing Using Systems from Multiple Manufacturers

IBC 2004, Amsterdam, 10 September 2004: www.nucoda.com: London-based Nucoda, developer of advanced digital media solutions for film and video, and several other manufacturers of solutions for Digital Intermediate, are announcing a new collaborative Open-Systems Initiative for film and video finishing, at IBC 2004. Nucoda, Bright Systems, Digital Voodoo, MTI Film and The Foundry are promoting the benefits of using software applications based on open architecture by showing the ease with which they can be used together to form a seamless integrated DI workflow.

Nucoda has instigated this Initiative to demonstrate how an open architecture plays a vital role in significantly accelerating workflow by allowing multiple users to access media simultaneously from a number of applications at any point during the DI process.

"Closed systems are very limiting from an operational and usability viewpoint," said Peter Lambert, Executive Chairman, Nucoda. "Our Open-Systems Initiative promotes the benefits of open architecture and brings greater choice to users without restricting interoperability between applications. In this way editors, artists and colorists using different systems can work together seamlessly on the same project. Speed, efficiency and flexibility of workflow are the key objectives."

At IBC 2004, the Open-Systems Initiative will be demonstrated on Nucoda's stand (7.809) using Nucoda Data Conform for conform and review, and Film Master for film finishing; Bright Systems from Nevada, is supplying the shared storage network with its BrightSAN Infrastructure products; Digital Voodoo is providing BlueFish444 video capture to DPX files; MTI Film from Rhode Island, is providing the dust-bust and dirt removal part of the process with its CORRECT products; and London-based The Foundry is showing its OFX-based plug-ins (Furnace's optical flow retimer, wire removal and grain tools, Keylight and a selection of Tinder effects).

"Workflow efficiency in the transition beyond video resolutions has been a major hurdle in the wide adoption of data infrastructures," said Antony Harris, CEO, Bright Systems. "We are proud to support the Open-Systems Initiative which makes resolution independent finishing on a single, common infrastructure a reality."

"The Open-Systems Initiative promotes the use of solutions for DI based on open platforms, thus helping customers to avoid being locked in to a single closed system," said Craige Mott, Managing Director, Digital Voodoo. "Users have the freedom to choose products from a range of developers to suit their requirements and budgets without having to worry about compatibility."

"MTI Film is very excited to be part of this growing group of companies offering software with increased efficiencies for working in the digital film finishing arena," said Pat Howley, Director of Sales, MTI Film. "We are great believers in this new Open-Systems Initiative."

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About Nucoda
Headquartered in Soho, London, Nucoda is a developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in solutions for film and video. Their experienced product design team possesses a unique set of skills having played leading roles in the design and development of some of the post-production industry's most successful and widely used graphics, compositing, 3D and editing tools. These skills, combined with a thorough understanding of the content creation process for film and video, have made Nucoda one of the most experienced and accomplished developers of digital media products. Nucoda has also developed software solutions for data driven web applications, production workflow, and content management and delivery, and has designed user interfaces and interoperability systems for numerous digital media-related applications. www.nucoda.com

About Bluefish444 (Digital Voodoo)
Bluefish444 is a division and brand name of Digital Voodoo (Australia) Pty Ltd. based in S. Melbourne, Australia. It is a leading supplier of uncompressed video cards for the Windows operating systems. Its video cards are used by a number of OEMs specializing in broadcast solutions. By continuing to work with workstation vendors and resellers, Bluefish444 has made it easier for end-users to purchase off the shelf Windows based editing, animation and compositing solutions making sure that the hardware is optimized for SD and HD solutions. For more information on Bluefish444, please visit the Bluefish444 website at www.bluefish444.com

About Bright Systems
Founded in 1999, Bright Systems is unique in its knowledge of distributed and proprietary file systems, major industry applications, and high performance storage systems. Our interoperability certified product set and superior customer service make us leaders in designing, supplying, and supporting data infrastructures for Post and DI bringing efficient resolution-independent data workflow to reality. www.4bright.com

About MTI Film LLC:
MTI Film L.L.C. (www.mtifilm.com) offers a suite of digital mastering software to the post-production and broadcast industries. MTI's software suites are cost effective, scalable tools used for film and video image correction, conversion (format and standards) and conforming. The suites of mastering applications create a centralized digital workflow, allowing customers to significantly reduce throughput time and hardware maintenance costs. MTI has been recognized with awards from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB,) the Technology Program of NIST and numerous trade publications.

MTI Film L.L.C. is a subsidiary of MTI Group Holdings, Inc. (www.mathtech.com,) a leader in image processing technologies. Founded in 1981, MTI Group Holdings, through its Machine Vision L.L.C., also offers manufacturers of machine vision equipment software for reading, aligning and inspecting components and labels during manufacturing. www.mtifilm.com

About The Foundry
Based in London's Soho, The Foundry develops plug-in visual effects that add functionality to the leading compositing platforms of the film and video industry. Today hundreds of post houses are using Furnace, Tinder, Keylight and Anvil in the art and science of digital compositing. www.thefoundry.co.uk