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Toronto's FrameBlender on its All-HD Post Pipeline

Toronto's FrameBlender is a three-year-old Toronto production and post facility that went all-HD in 2006. It wasn't a difficult transition, but the company decided it need to upgrade its pipeline from a more ramshackle approach involving a mix of different technologies to a disciplined SAN solution - a Terrablock 24D with 9.6 TB of storage capacity.

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SPIN Turns to FrameCycler 2007 for Uncompressed Playback

Site License Installed at Award-Winning VFX Facility's Toronto Location

Toronto: May 15, 2007 ... IRIDAS, who introduced the first software-based solution for uncompressed playback in 2001, announced that SPIN Productions has added a universal site-license of FrameCycler Professional 2007 at its facility in Toronto. With the purchase, arranged through Ordigraphe, IRIDAS' Canadian reseller, artists and supervisors at SPIN have immediate access to real-time playback of uncompressed content at HD and 2K resolutions.

The 2007 edition of FrameCycler Professional offers a more intuitive interface and numerous functionality enhancements. Playlists can be built and edited right on the timeline and both LUTs and .Looks can be loaded with image sequences for graded, calibrated playback.

"FrameCycler has been our Swiss army knife for viewing frame-based materials, said Richard Keats, Systems Manager at SPIN. "We have been really pleased with all of the features and great product support. I highly recommend FrameCycler 2007 for anyone who works with frames or film-based file formats and needs to deal with log or linear color space issues."

SPIN, an award-winning boutique facility specializing in feature film VFX, is taking advantage of FrameCycler's multi-platform capabilities and running it on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows machines as well as Mac OS X systems. "SPIN is a leader in VFX work," said Corey Kawucha of Ordigraphe. "They have a fast, data-driven pipeline and they needed a tool they could just plug in without a glitch. FrameCycler was the answer."

FrameCycler Professional 2007 runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and is a member of the FrameCycler family of uncompressed playback applications. For more information contact Ordigraphe in Canada at (450) 444-2600, IRIDAS at +49 89 330 35 142, or visit www.framecycler.com.

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Delivering cutting edge technology since 1984, Ordigraphe is the preferred source in Canada for high-end solutions in the fast advancing world of Digital Media. Visit www.ordigraphe.com to learn more.

About IRIDAS

IRIDAS pioneered desktop film-resolution playback in 2001. Its FrameCycler products are now the industry standard for frame-based image review. In 2003 IRIDAS introduced the first non-destructive color correction application. Today SpeedGrade and FrameCycler provide the critical links in an end-to-end pipeline for uncompressed content and color metadata. IRIDAS' applications are used by filmmakers around the world and most major animation and postproduction houses. IRIDAS is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Munich, Germany. For more information, visit www.framecycler.com.

Autodesk Introduces Discreet Inferno Visual Effects System on Linux Operating System

(SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Apr. 18, 2006) Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today launched its Academy Award-winning Discreet Inferno visual effects system running on the Linux operating system. The Discreet Inferno system enables the world's top digital artists in broadcast facilities, post-production houses and film studios to deliver extraordinary moving imagery. This system contains a robust creative toolset for high-speed compositing, advanced graphics and interactive design. It has shaped blockbuster feature films and television programming - such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, as well as numerous Super Bowl commercials and premium television channel branding. "Autodesk's Discreet Inferno system on a blazingly fast dual-core Linux workstation allows our artists more time and opportunity to do what they love best - be creative," commented Wilaiwan Leelachart, Managing Director, Fame Post. "Moreover, the system has strong brand recognition and incomparable performance, delivering top results that help us attract and retain the prestigious clients that drive our business. We've adopted the Discreet Inferno system because we need to deliver complex, high-end visual effects work without compromising quality or wasting time."

Isilon Launches Next Generation Clustered Storage Systems

SEATTLE, WA - March 13, 2006 - Isilon® Systems, the leader in clustered storage, today announced the release of its fourth generation Isilon IQ clustered storage systems. With the release of its new OneFS® 4.0 distributed file system, Isilon is ushering in the storage industry's first TrueScale™ technology, providing enterprises with tailored, "pay as you grow," storage solutions fully optimized to meet businesses' unique performance and capacity needs while dramatically reducing costs. Additionally, Isilon IQ with OneFS 4.0 shatters existing enterprise capacity and performance limitations by achieving a record 528 Terabytes of capacity and 7 Gigabytes per second of performance in a single file system and single, truly symmetric cluster. Isilon also today announced the release of two new clustered storage platform extension products - the Isilon EX 6000 and Isilon IQ Accelerator (see separate releases) - further extending the breakthrough benefits of clustered storage into both high performance enterprise computing environments and the highest capacity archiving and disk-to-disk backup markets.

Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Alias

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Jan. 10, 2006 - Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Alias for cash consideration of $197 million USD. On October 4, 2005, Autodesk announced a definitive agreement to acquire Alias - a leading developer of 3D graphics technology. This acquisition extends Autodesk's 3D software leadership in the manufacturing and media and entertainment industries. "We're excited to welcome Alias customers, partners and employees to Autodesk," said Carl Bass, COO of Autodesk. "The acquisition of Alias is about fulfilling Autodesk's vision: To give design and creative professionals the best software tools for realizing their ideas. Customers are demanding the next generation of 3D photorealistic visualization and animation tools, and we are poised to deliver. In the future, 3D assets will be created once and shared across a range of industries, from automotive and architectural design to films and games. This will be enabled by Autodesk technology."

ISILON SYSTEMS TURBO-CHARGES CLUSTERED STORAGE WITH INTRODUCTION OF ISILON IQ ACCELERATOR

Isilon Systems, the leader in clustered storage, today announced at Supercomputing 2005, the introduction of the Isilon IQ Accelerator, a dynamic expansion of its award-winning product line of Isilon IQ 1920, 3000, 4800 and 6000 clustered storage systems. Isilon's IQ Accelerator brings to market the storage industry's first performance acceleration product, which can scale to provide an industry record 6 gigabytes per second of total aggregate throughput from a single file system. With the new Isilon IQ Accelerator, customers can more than double the performance of their data storage, significantly accelerating productivity and collaboration across the digital workflow while achieving unmatched price-performance in the storage industry. The Isilon IQ Accelerator, coupled with Isilon's OneFS distributed file system, ushers in next-generation Dynamic Performance Acceleration (DPA) software which automatically turbo-charges data storage performance on the fly in 15 seconds, with no manual provisioning or system downtime.

Autodesk Introduces Linux-based Version of Autodesk Toxik Visual Effects Software

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Dec. 5, 2005 - At the Digital Media Festival in Sydney, Australia, Autodesk, Inc. today launched Autodesk Toxik visual effects software running on the Linux operating system. Toxik software enables teams of digital artists to collaboratively realize feature film visual effects ideas, and is already available on the Windows operating system. With the introduction of Toxik software running on Linux, film studios and post-production facilities have more options for the back-end infrastructure and administration of their digital film pipelines.

Discreet Launches High-Performance SAN Solution for Non-Compressed High-Definition Film and Television Post-Production

Amsterdam, The Netherlands- IBC-September 10, 2004- Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) is pleased to announce stone® shared storage system, its high-bandwidth, fully scalable, real-time storage area network (SAN) for high-quality non-compressed film and television post-production. stone shared storage system scales to provide multi-user collaboration with simultaneous access to multiple uncompressed 4K, 2K, HD and SD projects from a single storage location within the facility.

stone shared storage system is based on the SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS® and DataDirect Networks' Storage Networking System and will be branded, sold and distributed by Discreet under its OEM relationship with SGI. stone shared storage system disk arrays are based on fibre-channel disk technology - the industry standard in high performance - combining extremely fast read/writer speeds, low latency, RAID data integrity, and high I/O bandwidth to deliver large-scale connectivity to multiple high-definition workstations.