The Digital Rapids StreamZ is a family of media encoding servers that allow you to expand the capabilities of traditional video systems. StreamZ gives you the ability to incorporate live web streaming,video archiving, and transcoding directly into your existing network. Think of it as a video source with an IP address, a bridge between your video and network installations.

The applications are endless:
Corporate messaging, Advertising, Distance Education, Content Delivery Networks, Security, Marketing, Broadcast and many more. StreamZ is perfectly suited to them all.

Reaching a larger audience, StreamZ gives you the ability to repurpose your content into multiple formats simultaneously, in realtime. This means you no longer have to choose between Windows and Real streaming formats. You can have multiple versions of each at the same time. If your system is powerful enough you can even add archive formats without giving up your real-time encoding. StreamZ systems support real-time encoding into MPEG, Quicktime, and lossless or uncompressed broadcast quality video. The list of video formats supported by StreamZ continues to grow and the software upgradeability means you never have to worry about compatibility with new streaming video standards as they arise. Multi-format encoding means you can reach a larger, more geographically diverse audience than ever before.

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With StreamZ you are not locked into low resolution or low quality streaming video formats. Every StreamZ comes equipped with our powerful Media Processing Engine (MPE). The MPE delivers high quality video by removing noise from the source video. In addition, the MPE can reformat the video into progressive scan for a true digital video experience. Video that contains less noise will be more efficient to compress, and progressive scan allows you to transmit your content at resolutions greater than 320x240, without the typical artifacts induced by other systems. The advanced audio processing capabilities of the MPE give you complete control over the audio quality. Each audio channel (8 total) comes equipped with a 7-band Parametric EQ, and each stereo pair has a built in dynamic range compression/expansion engine to ensure that your message gets through loud and clear. The processing capabilities of the StreamZ not only improve the quality of audio and video, they also remove a significant portion of the work from any compression engine being used. Cleaner audio and video means less work for the CPU, which means you can actually process more audio and video streams simultaneously. Greater quality, higher resolution, and more streams add up to the most productive system available.		StreamZ software is designed for ease of use, high productivity, and simple integration. This application was designed from the ground up to address the problem of capturing, processing, and encoding of audio and video. It is not burdened with the complex user interface elements found in other solutions designed for video editing or single frame image processing. The StreamZ software is designed with the user in mind. The work flow within is simple and gives you the freedom to control many of the video and audio parameters with a single click. You move easily through the application selecting the video input, adjusting advanced proc-amp controls to setting the encoded output. The process associated with each encoding session can be saved in part or in whole. This intuitive environment allows you to easily recreate an entire project, or to reuse portions of the project within other jobs. With StreamZ software your productivity is increased with less effort and the cost of training is minimized, if not eliminated.
Automation for broadcast and the enterprise The StreamZ software is not only easy to use and highly productive; it is highly configurable and programmable. StreamZ software utilizes a system of keyword shortcuts (tags) which you control, shortening the amount of data entry necessary for each job. Company information, time and date stamps, author information, and anything else you can think of can be automatically appended to the metadata information of a stream, its file name, or it can be referenced externally through StreamZ external scripting support. StreamZ functionality can be extended through the use of external scripting or applications allowing you to customize how the StreamZ works in your environment. Any functionality that can be performed by a script or external command line driven application can be added to StreamZ easily on a profile by profile basis. This allows you to have separate functionality for Windows Media files than you do for Real Media or any other format. Move, copy, delete, rename, ftp, just about any function you can think of can be added through the StreamZ external command interface. The StreamZ also comes with a Java based, password controlled remote control application. This allows you to control multiple StreamZ servers from any browser that supports Java 1.4 or above. Manage projects, set profiles, start, stop and monitor any number of StreamZ systems throughout your enterprise all from your web browser. Based on Java Web Start technology, the StreamZ remote application can be installed and activated on any supported platform that has a network connection.