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SDBOXX [pro] Prices Start at $8,785

BOXX Technologies , a leading developer of XXtreme award-winning digital content creation systems for the design, entertainment and digital film industries, today announced SDBOXX [pro], a powerful nonlinear editing system featuring Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD and Adobe Audition.

SDBOXX [pro] offers uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 SD for the highest image quality available, support for NTSC and PAL video input and output to six channels of AES/EBU digital audio. "The promise of HD looms on the horizon for many studios, but the need for powerful standard definition editing solutions remains a reality for editors today," says Todd Bryant, CTO of BOXX.

SDBOXX [pro] offers studios a dynamic hardware and Adobe software combination that is not only feature-rich, but cost effective for all types of editing projects. The system includes the Bluefish444 Wildblue AV board, offering standard definition uncompressed 10-bit SDI I/O, Genlock sync support, six channels AES/EBU digital audio, YUV to RGB colorspace conversion and much more.

SDBOXX [pro] is delivered fully configured and supports up to 500GB (298 minutes) of RAID3 storage in a 4U rack-mountable or desk side chassis with a front 1394 port. SDBOXX [pro] is bundled with Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD and Adobe Audition and includes a plugin capable of exporting content to Adobe After Effects.