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ContentAgent 2.1 has just gone into the final stages of testing.  Some of the new features include:

Avid MXF Writing Enhacements

• Support for 28:1, 15:1 and 14:1 JFIF resolutions in PAL and NTSC
• Insertion of Timecode metadata intro resulting MXF file

General Enhancements

• Enhanced support for running ContentAgent on “Full” Windows XP (as well as XP Embedded)
• On-screen keyboards throughout UI
• Touchscreen support in workflow designer
• Template import from ContentAgent v1.3
• Enhanced performance for browsing folders with large number of files
• Improvements to the licensing system

Capture Enhancements

• Visual adjustments for video cropping boarders
• Input Proc Amp controls for Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Colour Gain, Colour Balance, Gamma
• Vertical blanking support for handling 608 line capture (PAL) and 512 line (NTSC)
• Improved input video format detection
• Live capture for a set time period

Image sequence creation

• Platinum Transcode engine can now transcode video to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, Targa, PNG, JPEG2000 and DPX file sequences

MPEG Multiplexing Workflow node

AutoCropping on still frame grabs

Export clip metadata as XML

This release will be available as a free-of-charge update to all on software maintenance.