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New Software Tool for Premiere Editors
OTTAWA, 1 January, 2003–Baobab Productions announced today the availability
of its latest PC software product, Content Manager, a tool to be used
in conjunction with Adobe’s popular non-linear editing application Premiere.
Content Manager is a unique program that catalogues the content
of Premiere project files and compares it with actual hard drive contents.
This permits editors and production houses working on multiple projects to
more easily manage hard disk storage space and to more easily archive and
restore projects.
“As with all our software products, we designed Content Manager because
we needed it in our own shop,” says Baobab Productions President, David Mowbray.
“We often have several projects on the go and never seem to have enough online
storage capacity for everything we want to do. Content Manager does
just what it says – helps us manage.”
Features include the ability to list extraneous material on hard drives
that are not part of current projects and to either delete them, move them
or rename them. Content Manager can also help during the restoration
of project material that has been stored offline on CD-ROM, DVD or on other
hard drives by listing missing content as the project is restored. Content
Manager shows the original directory locations of all files in a project
making it simple to put every file back in the correct place. For users of
Matrox RT systems that keep separate audio files for each video clip,
Content Manager will automatically detect the presence of the Matrox
card and find which drives have been assigned for both Audio and Video content.
Options in Content Manager allow users to customize the system to
their particular work habits. For example by default Content Manager
looks for Premiere projects in the directory selected by Premiere, but
users can easily change this to any directory or disk drive where project
files may be stored. The program can also search all local and mapped network
drives for Premiere projects in a single pass.
Content Manager v1.0 is available for a 20 day free trial download
from the Baobab Productions web-site. Go to http://www.baobab.net/softcs.htm
for details. The program retails for $39.95 and can be purchased via the Internet.
Content Manager is intended for use with Adobe Premiere from
version 5 and up on PC’s with Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP operating systems.
Baobab Productions Inc.
is one of the world's leading producers of communications material about
research in the developing world. It was one of the first all-digital
video producers in the world and is the developer of the original DV Converter
the ‘Swiss Army Knife of DV Software.’ For more information,
contact Marlene Bedford
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