Post-Production Management and Distribution for Media and Entertainment Companies...

Post-Production Management and Distribution for Media and Entertainment
Companies Gets Easier With Signiant and Sample Digital Partnership
Partnership Improves Efficiency of Delivery and Monitoring of Digital Dailies
to Ensure That Time-Sensitive TV and Movie Content is Delivered to Editing
Suites, Screening Rooms and Executive Laptops

LAS VEGAS - NAB Show, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The ability for Media and
Entertainment (M&E) companies to manage, share and distribute post-production
work and "dailies" will become easier as a result of a collaborative
partnership announced today between Sample Digital and Signiant(R) Inc. M&E
companies will now have instant and on-demand status updates from an
automated dashboard as they move enormous files of digital content around the
globe for editing, translating and other post-production work. Signiant's
Content Distribution Management software will be deployed with Sample
Digital's new DAX D3 system - complementing its end-to-end production
management functionality with greater visibility into the status of these
dailies as they are distributed - as well as accelerated file transfer
resulting in greater efficiencies for the whole process.
"Dailies - the raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a film or
television show - is some of the most time-consuming and intensively-used
content in the production cycle by multiple departments and divisions at M&E
companies," said Patrick Macdonald-King, CEO of Sample Digital. "Our
partnership with Signiant ensures that these dailies arrive where they need
to be, when they need to be there - whether it is an editing suite or a
set-top box in an executive screening room."
Sample Digital, the makers of DAX, currently provides an extensive suite
of production workflow acceleration and media management tools, including
secure digital dailies, content distribution and trans-coding services, to
many of the largest movie and television studios in the world. Signiant is a
leading developer of content distribution management solutions and works with
many of the biggest M&E companies to help them save time and money while
quickly and securely transferring and distributing digital content.
"This partnership is really about bringing peace of mind to M&E companies
by adding access, efficiency and end-to-end delivery," said Tony Lapolito,
Vice President Marketing and Product Management, Signiant. "There's a lot of
pressure on production professionals as they move and distribute digital
content in the hyper-fast world of M&E, especially when it comes to the time
sensitivities of dailies. Our partnership with Sample Digital now provides
M&E companies with the ability to call up status of these deliveries
instantly and right at their fingertips. No more waiting or wondering is
necessary."
For more information on the partnership between Signiant and Sample
Digital and its benefits to the M&E industry, please visit their booths at
NAB. The Signiant team will be located at Booth SL4508 and the Sample Digital
team at Booth SL6713.
About Signiant
Founded in 2000 (http://www.signiant.com), Signiant's software enables
immediate cost savings and monetization of digital assets by managing,
accelerating, and automating the movement of content securely over networks.
With Signiant, companies are able to streamline the workflow of their digital
media files and ensure that the right content is in the right place at the
right time. Signiant is headquartered in Burlington, MA with development
facilities in Ottawa, Canada and offices in New York, Los Angeles, London,
Munich and Singapore. Read the Signiant blog at:
http://www.digitalmediagalaxy.com.
About Sample Digital Holdings LLC
Hollywood, California-based Sample Digital provides production studios,
television networks, independent producers and advertising agencies an
extensive suite of production workflow acceleration and media management
tools, including secure digital dailies, set top box applications, content
security, distribution, and transcoding. Sample Digital is currently
launching its next generation platform, combining the strengths of both
Digital Dailies(R) and DAX into one product, called D3.
For further information, please contact:

Wendy Mattock, Bubble & Squeak
wendy@bubblesqueak.co.uk
Tel. +44-7912-300231

George Snell, Highland Communications
highlandcomm@gmail.com
Tel: +1-781-254-0315

SOURCE Signiant

For further information, please contact: Wendy Mattock, Bubble & Squeak,
wendy@bubblesqueak.co.uk, Tel. +44-7912-300231, George Snell, Highland
Communications, highlandcomm@gmail.com, Tel: +1-781-254-0315