Optibase, a provider of advanced digital video solutions, will show for the first time real-time professional MPEG-2 HD encoding for the PC at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas, April 18-21, 2005, in Booth #SL 343. Optibase's MovieMaker 200 HD is designed for professional quality ingestion of HD for post-production studios, broadcasting, video on demand (VOD), and ad insertion.

The MovieMaker 200 HD board is designed to support both high-definition and standard-definition video input, with MPEG-2 compression support at up to 80Mbps. The board is designed to digitize from an array of inputs (file, analog, or digital) and to drop files to a host as either compressed or uncompressed data. The MovieMaker 200 HD board will ship with Optibase's encoding management application, MPEG Composer 200, version 4.0, with integrated device control, parameter setting, and encode status monitoring.

MovieMaker 200 HD is expected to be available in Q3 of 2005.

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