ALTERAN APL Service Bureau

Model Details

APL provides in depth project planning, content selection, IT management, digital asset management, and storage consulting during the initial discovery phase. We utilize advanced encoding, transcoding, quality control, and storage technologies throughout our workflow process. Our affordable , streamlined service not only encodes video but also provides content organization and archiving to include:

Video capture to any digital file format
Multi-stream encoding
Multi-format transcoding
Metadata tagging with automatic imbedding of client data
Detailed reporting and tracking

Optional:
Short or long-term storage
Automated quality control

Once you ship your tapes to our facility, they are immediately inventoried utilizing our proprietary inventory tracking software system to oversee each step of your workflow process. Our service bureau incorporates new and legacy certified hardware and software along with highly trained Engineers and technicians to convert to any output digital file format and packaged for retrieval and storage based on your specifications. Our Service Bureau facility can process High Definition, Standard Definition, Analog or Digital video tapes and files to be converted to other formats such as Blu-Ray, DVD, .h264 or Flash.

Specifications:

Tape Formats	File  Formats
Analog Source:	Native Output formats:
½” Betacam and Betacam SP NTSC/PAL	Pro-Res SQ and HQ (Standard def/High Def)
½” VHS and S-VHS NTSC/PAL	DVCPRO HD
¾” U-Matic and U-Matic SP NTSC/PAL	MPEG 2 iFrame w/IMX compatibility
1” C-Format NTSC/PAL	DnxHD (VC-3 compliant for AVID) Uncompressed 8 bit SD
Uncompressed and more	Uncompressed and more
Digital Source:	Transcoded formats:
Betacam IMX, SX and Digibeta NTSC/PAL	Flash Media
DVCAM and DVCPRO NTSC/PAL	Windows Media
D1 Component 4:2:2 Digital	.h264
D2 Composite 4:2:2 Digital	MXF (For Avid)
D3 and D5 (SD/HD)	.AVI
HDCAM and HDCAM SR	JPEG2000
	and more
Special handling available for:
1" B-Format, 2" Quad High-Band NTSC/PAL...

Additional Detailed Information:

Alteran Processing Laroratory website is http://www.alterantech.com/alteranprocessinglab.cfm