Bluefish444 Releases Symmetry v3.5 Acquisition, Review, and Playout Software with New ASSIMILATE SCRATCH Integration

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Powerful command line interface increases ease of use and automation in ASSIMILATE SCRATCH and other 3rd-party software applications

Bluefish444 has announced the immediate availability of Symmetry v3.5, its powerful acquisition, review and playout software applications for Windows. Supporting a range of industry-standard file formats, Symmetry gives graphic artists a cost-effective, easy-to-use tool to frame-accurately acquire, review, and playout video projects in YUV or RGB color space. Symmetry supports playlist, clip editing, and EDL import features, alleviating the need to use a complicated NLE package for preview and basic editing processes. Symmetry is bundled free with every Bluefish444 retail video card.

Symmetry v3.5 offers a new command line interface, giving Bluefish444 software development partners the ability to use the core functionality of Symmetry without directly operating Symmetry's user interface. A third-party software application that has engineered support for Symmetry's command line interface is automatically able to capture and playback clips and EDLs from within its own user interface - without operating the Symmetry user interface.

The Symmetry command line interface was developed through close consultation and cooperative engineering with ASSIMILATE. ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH customers are now able to automatically create a CONstruct from captured media through Symmetry, then playback clips from within SCRATCH without having to exit the SCRATCH user interface. Through additional co-engineering between Bluefish444 and ASSIMILATE, SCRATCH customers will also be able to batch capture clips and EDLs and batch export EDLs.

"SCRATCH customers have been using Bluefish444 Symmetry for video ingest and conversion to data and output for quite a while. Bluefish444 has listened to our users and Symmetry v3.5 is a direct example of this," says Jeff Edson, CEO of ASSIMILATE. "Now SCRATCH users can take advantage of the power of Bluefish444 hardware and Symmetry integrated within SCRATCH. This command line ability in Symmetry, with the XML capabilities of SCRATCH, makes for easier implementation and mastering of the workflow."

Symmetry v3.5 is available as a free update to all Bluefish444 video card customers via the Bluefish444 version 5.4.12 installer.

Labels: ASSIMILATE-SCRATCH, Bluefish444, Symmetry

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