Barcelona, 27 March 2003 - Visual Century, a technology company based in Barcelona, has launched the new version of VideoIngest, a video cataloguing software for broadcast environments which is five times faster than real-time video indexing applications.

VideoIngest automatically detects camera shots, creates a storyboard with representative images of these changes and detects video characteristics that may be of interest for annotators and subsequent users. In television environments, video cataloguers are synchronized with digitization processes to obtain data and image catalogues to enable the access of users to any point in the video without having to watch the whole document first.

VideoIngest version 2.0 incorporates new features that make it especially powerful. It can analyze video files faster that the video itself – a 50 minute MPEG1 file in just 10 minutes, limited only by the speed of the CPU. This makes it especially useful when digitizing and analyzing video archives. Other important features of VieoIngest 2.0 include the possibility of working indistinctively with PAL or NTSC standards, a multilingual user interface, the connectivity with any database, and the rescaling of video key frames.

About Visual Century

Visual Century is a technology company created in 2001 by a group of entrepreneurs with audiovisual and multimedia research backgrounds. Visual Century develops software products to index, analyze, store and access digital video, audio and images in asset management applications that include archiving, production, retrieval, browsing and navigation of rich media content. The Visual Century team is made up of highly qualified professionals that the quality, technology and innovation objectives of the company, and includes a fully dedicated research division. Visual Century products stand out because of their innovative vision of rich media content, and they are designed to facilitate the use, management and exploitation of video, audio and image content.