SCM has built a significant position in the retail digital video channel through its innovative Dazzle product range and has recently expanded its focus to include the PC and consumer electronics OEM market. MainConcept brings to the relationship many years’ experience in video technology development, and will enrich SCM’s product portfolio with additional compression/decompression (codec) and high-end video software capabilities.
The global digital video market is literally exploding, as people everywhere begin to enjoy the benefits of creating and sharing their videos electronically, said Robert Schneider, chief executive officer of SCM Microsystems. Our strategic development agreement with MainConcept provides SCM with additional software technology to enhance our next generation digital video solutions for the consumer, prosumer and professional markets. MainConcept is renowned for its superior video software offerings; partnering allows us to focus on our core competencies in creating market-focused digital video solutions.
It’s a perfect relationship now and for the future, said Markus Moenig, founder and CEO of MainConcept. SCM’s Dazzle brand has a dominant position in the retail channel for computer video editing products. And, as we continue to create tomorrow’s technology for set-top boxes, PDAs and embedded devices SCM has the resources to develop and market that technology.
MainConcept’s end-user product line includes the popular MainActor video editing suite, the MainVision compositing and effects program, and standalone codecs for enhancing the performance of digital video various software applications. For developers, the VideoEngine SDK makes it easy to create or enhance video editing, conversion and visualization software for PCs, PDAs, set-top boxes and embedded devices.
Under its Dazzle family of brands and through its OEM customers, SCM Microsystems offers a variety of products for capturing, editing and sharing digital video. The Dazzle brand includes the Digital Video Creator (DVC) series, the Hollywood DV-Bridge, a Dazzle-branded version of MainActor, and MovieStar editing and publishing software. The Dazzle/FAST brand includes the DV.now and DV.now AV editing and publishing solutions for prosumers.
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