RALEIGH, NC - Inlet Technologies (www.inlethd.com), a provider of encoding solutions for digital media, is now shipping a new version of Fathom, its realtime encoding solution for high definition content in the Windows Media Video and the SMPTE VC-1 formats. Version 2.5 delivers a more powerful set of workflow tools, new encoding options and enhanced flexibility.
Fathom combines hardware for speed, with analysis software for control, enabling high-quality output in a short timeframe. MPEG 2 file ingest, native encoding of interlaced content and AVISynth support are among Fathom 2.5’s enhancements. In addition, concurrent with this release, Inlet is offering a new cost-effective SD-only variant, available in most markets for under $10,000.
“Fathom has been an amazing tool for us – speeding production times by at least 200 percent,” says Michael Rebel, data manager, Modern VideoFilm. “Recently we have been producing WM9 files for Xbox game trailers – a process that used to take three hours when using other encoding systems, and now takes us about 15 minutes with Fathom.”