Maximum Throughput’s MAXedit® Server Edition Multi-user Editing Solution Now Shipping

Max-T also unveils MAXcut tool for rough cut preparation

MONTREAL, Canada, January 15, 2009 — Maximum Throughput (www.max-t.com), developers of server-based media applications and high-performance storage solutions, today announced that its MAXedit® Server Edition, the first multi-user editing application, is now shipping.

With MAXedit, broadcasters, postproduction facilities and studios can rapidly and cost-effectively set up a multi-seat editing environment that's suited for news production, specialty programming, digital dailies, corporate and institutional productions and offline editing. Multiple concurrent users can access MAXedit by launching it from a Web browser. They can review, edit and render compressed and uncompressed SD/HD content, without using specialized workstations or needing to upgrade existing network infrastructure. Users connected over LAN or over the Internet, simply log on to the MAXedit application server and begin editing—all editing operations are processed and executed on the MAXedit server. The scalable editing solution fits into any workflow with its broad native support of tapeless, movie and sequence-of-images formats such as Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM, AVC HD, DVCPRO HD, MPEG-2/4 and DPX.

Maximum Throughput has also unveiled its new MAXcut, a companion tool to MAXedit. MAXcut further enhances MAXedit’s convenience and functionality by giving media professionals and their clients a streamlined tool to quickly assemble rough cuts and storyboards that can be readily refined by a craft editor in MAXedit. MAXcut is designed for novice and professional editors alike, to easily share creative editing decisions with team members and contribute from anywhere or at anytime to the review and approval cycle associated with any project.

“MAXedit Server continues to exceed expectations of companies in the broadcast and post production markets with its innovative server-based editing model, and their feedback thus far has been very impressive.” said John Miller, Maximum Throughput’s vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. “MAXedit delivers a substantial improvement over the dedicated workstations model by significantly reducing the capital and operational costs of editing, while enabling worldwide editing collaboration over the Internet.”

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MAXedit Server Edition Interface

Maximum Throughput has also unveiled its new MAXcut, a companion tool to MAXedit.

MAXcut further enhances MAXedit's convenience and functionality by giving media professionals and their clients a streamlined tool to quickly assemble rough cuts and storyboards that can be readily refined by a craft editor in MAXedit. MAXcut is designed for novice and professional editors alike, to easily share creative editing decisions with team members and contribute from anywhere or at anytime to the review and approval cycle associated with any project.

About Maximum Throughput

MaxT Systems Inc. (www.max-t.com) develops applications for media management, preparation and editing, as well as networked media servers and storage infrastructure solutions. Max-T’s media-aware storage and server solutions deliver high performance over commodity networks, using smart software that runs on industry-standard hardware. Media management and preparation tools are tightly integrated within the product line, delivering enriched functionality in a single, versatile solution. The company pioneered the development of shared storage solutions that can be simultaneously accessed over both data and video networks and multi-user server-based editing applications deployed over LANs or as a service over the Web. Max-T offers products with unparalleled performance at the lowest total cost-of-ownership in their class.