Sample Digital

The mobile application from Sample Digital dramatically reduces the time cycle and cumbersome processes for the directors and filmmakers, greatly improving the time to decision.
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Sample Digital, the leading provider of production workflow applications for film and TV, has announced a $1.9 Million financing with Collateral Guaranty, the Nashville-based venture banking firm.
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Hollywood-based Sample Digital, a software developer of workflow applications, built an iPad app version five months ago. Now the iPad app is used by 70 percent of Sample Digital's more than 120 movie and television production customers that deliver top shows.
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GlobalLogic, a leader in software R&D services, has announced that Hollywood-based Sample Digital successfully partnered with GlobalLogic to develop the industry's first iPad application that lets filmmakers review and approve film clips for in-progress productions.
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With the nifty new dax|Mobile with iDailies, Sample Digital has extended its web-based asset and workflow management tools to mobile platform users.
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Two local technology companies, Sample Digital and Technicolor, have introduced applications that now allow production and studio executives to view “dailies” – scenes from movie and TV shoots – on their iPads.
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Production workflow applications provider Sample Digital is introducing dax|Mobile with iDailies, a subscription service exclusively for the iPad.
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Sample Digital Holdings LLC announces today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for a system and method for media content collaboration throughout the media production process. The patent was issued as U.S. Patent No. 7,660,416 ("the '416 Patent")
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Sample Digital has announced that Michael J. Lam has come aboard as VP, Account Development. Previously President of ClearStory Systems, the media asset management company, Lam has long experience in the technology field, with a focus on business systems. He is based in Boston and will be working closely with the company's West Coast headquarters.
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One year after unveiling its new dax|D3 digital production workflow system, Sample Digital announces full adoption by its production clients, including the industry's major film studios, broadcast networks and production companies. The platform now supports a community of more than 7,500 individual users, and more than 50 companies, making Sample Digital the leader in its field and dax|D3 the most widely used digital production workflow system.
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Bobby Williams, VP of post-production at Lionsgate, talks about the switch to Sample Digital's new dax|D3 Digital Workflow System in this "Gear Guide: Workflow" item from ICG, the magazine of the International Cinematagrapher's Guild. The dax|D3 System is also featured in the wokflow-centric article "Base Camp Data" from the same issue.
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Bobby Williams, VP of post-production at Lionsgate, has been relying on DAX digital-production workflow technology from Sample Digital for TV episodics for about seven years. But this year, as the company switches shows including Mad Men and Crash to the new dax|D3 System, Lionsgate is moving from distributing dailies on DVD to an all-streaming solution.
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Shuttling media among Hollywood studio departments can be costly and chaotic. Sample Digital offers production workflow and media management tools to help studios, networks, production companies and ad agancies reduce costs, accelerate decision-making and streamline media distribution. To maximize processing performance and server density, the company relies on Intel processors for in-house servers, the servers it deploys in studio facilities, and the set-top boxes used to screen dailies and rough cuts. Intel processors help the company complete 20 percent more processes per server in less time than before and deliver high-quality video to the desks of decision makers.
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Sample Digital debuts dax|D3, the latest technology for digital production workflow from the makers of DAX and Digital Dailies®, at NAB 2009. The newly released dax|D3 enables end-to-end electronic global management of the production process through a highly secure, web-based application approved and currently operational at most Hollywood Studios, television and cable networks and key production facilities around the globe.
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In this video case study from Intel, Associate producers Richard Anobile and Tony Carey discuss the value of Intel and Sample Digital to their production workflows.
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Sample Digital and our clients were able to contribute to the success of the East Hollywood 2008 Toy Drive, where over 1,200 children received gifts.
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Ascent Media today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the encoding and media services division of Sample Digital. Sample Digital will continue to offer encoding and digital packaging services, but will specialize in custom workflow projects.
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Sample Digital provides secure international dailies for the hit Showtime series The Tudors.
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Getting film from "reel-to-reel" to formats that work on televisions, computers, cell phones and iPods takes a high-performance networked storage system.
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Sample Digital Holdings LLC is leading a transaction and financing to enable the roll-up of three leading independent digital media service suppliers to the film and television industry.
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Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. is going Hollywood, in a big way. The global investment firm has laid out $1 billion to transform Summit Entertainment, Patrick Wachsberger’s foreign film agency, into a new studio that will produce, distribute and market films.
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Sample Digital Holdings is leading a roll-up of its online dailies services provider Digital Dailies LLC. and media encoding facility Sample Digital media Services LLC. with privately owned workflow-systems developer DAX Solutions. Hyperion Entertainment Group is backing the deal and becomes a minority shareholder in Sample Digital.
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Gone Baby Gone taps DAX for dailies approval
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Showtime Chooses DAX Solutions for 2005 Season
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