CinemaCraft and NetBlender have teamed up to provide a new software bundle known as CC-HDe/a. I’m guessing the “/a” stands for authoring. Anyways, it’s an interesting solution for people looking at getting some great encodes. We actually have an HDe and it’s a pretty impressive piece of software, though there are some things that just drive me crazy about it (i.e. no QuickTime reference files!)

They don’t really mention price but they say a comparable solution (which would of course be Scenarist + HDe) would cost over $100k, while there’s saves you 50%. So retail is probably around $50k. Sounds about right to me.

It’ll be interesting to see what this does for each company, but realistically I don’t see CinemaCraft selling many extra units because of this. NetBlender will probably get a few more sales because people who are already spending so much on an encoder can add an authoring tool for not much more, in addition to their Blu-print or Scenarist workstations.

You can read the press release here.

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