Quantel exchanges data with Apple's FCP 4 - Post News - Quantel eQ and iQ systems - Brief Article

Post, May, 2003

NEWBURY, UK -- At its NAB booth, Quantel (www.quantel.com) showed Apple Final Cut Pro 4 projects being transferred from Mac Power-Books to Quantel eQ and iQ systems. This workflow is centered around AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) technology, an open standards architecture on which the Quantel file format is based. AAF allows for rich metadata exchange far beyond what is currently provided by edit decision lists. Data that can be exchanged can include DVE positional data, flex-file and color correction information, clip names and more.

Quantel will be using the Automatic Duck AAF plug-in to work with Apple's XML interchange format to provide a single-step transfer operation for users who will be able to exchange data of SD, HD and 2K projects offlined on Final Cut Pro 4 with Quantel's generationQ range of products.

The showing continued Quantel's strategy to support open standards and collaborative workflow for its line of film and HD finishing solutions.

Quantel says the demo technology will be available via a Final Cut Pro plug-in from Automatic Duck early this summer.