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Quantel launches soft-Sam giving open connectivity and teamworking boost for standalone eQ, iQ and Pablo systems (26/9/2008)

Quantel launched a brand new option named soft-Sam at IBC 2008 that will bring significant connectivity and workflow boosts to owners of standalone Quantel eQ, iQ and Pablo systems.

soft-Sam allows third party systems transparent access to the Quantel disk store. This means the Quantel operator can use other tools and media from all sorts of different applications within a project without the need to move or copy media - saving time and speeding workflow. For example, these could be files rendered on Fusion, or models from a 3D system, written directly onto the Quantel framestore.

In this way, soft-Sam brings some of the key workflow benefits of Quantel's Genetic Engineering shared workflow technology and its Sam data server to the eQ, iQ or Pablo owner, making them available on a part-time basis - when the system is not in use for its primary creative purpose - typically in down-time during work breaks or outside working hours.

"Post today is all about integrating lots of different toolsets to get the right result in the most efficient way," said Steve Owen, Quantel Director of Marketing. "soft-Sam makes it really easy to integrate a huge variety of different tools into the Quantel workflow.

"soft-Sam also greatly increases the contribution of Quantel systems to the facility's overall productivity and workflow. It effectively turns an investment in a single eQ, iQ or Pablo into two machines - one of which can carry on breaking workflow bottlenecks in downtime, while concentrating fully on creative, chargeable work in working hours," Owen concluded.

soft-Sam will be available from October this year.

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