BOSTON, MA 7/31 — At the Siggraph 2006 Conference in Boston (booth
2629), Seefile Software LLC is unveiling new software that supports
video and web animation file formats in addition to the photo and
print formats previously supported. SeeFile’s product for photo and
print media has been praised in recent reviews by Seybold and Studio
Photography and Design magazines, and was rated best of Show at the
PMA 2005 conference by Shutterbug Magazine. The new 2.5 release adds
video and Flash support, plus a number of additional features, and is
being offered in new low-priced configurations for as little as $399,
or $549 bundled with Mac hardware. An unlimited-user license for
SeeFile 2.5, for corporate applications, is priced at $3,995.
Seefile has already allowed photographers, printers and graphic
designers to simply save files to folders on their hard disk for
clients to view and comment on. Now the same capabilities are
available to web designers, animators, videographers and filmmakers.
Video clips, animations and dailies can be saved directly to a system
running SeeFile, then viewed remotely and securely from any PC or Mac
running a standard web browser from locations around the world.
While these kinds of capabilities have been offered by a few large
hosted sites such as YouTube and Flickr, they have required users to
upload their files to an outside server. While this may be practical
for short clips or small numbers of files, the revolution in digital
capture and synthesis means that ever-larger files are being
generated, in ever-larger quantities. By working directly off the
user’s hard disk, SeeFile skips the upload step and gives direct
control over file versioning and delivery to clients. Traditional
methods of delivery like writing DVDs or DV tapes for rush shipment
can now be reduced dramatically or even eliminated outright.
Sam Bogoch, CEO of SeeFile, added “we’re really helping
videographers, filmmakers and animators improve the speed and quality
of their communications with colleagues”. SeeFile 2.5 automatically
generates previews for QuickTime, AVI, Flash, RAW, JPEG, PDF and TIFF
files.
Affordable New Mac Hardware Bundles…
SeeFile and its dealers worldwide are pre-installing the software on
G4 and Intel Mac hardware. Bundles range from $549 for SeeFile 5-user
version preinstalled on a refurbished G4 tower, to $1,149 for the
same software preinstalled on the latest dual-core Mac mini with
Gigabit Ethernet.
For more information visit www.seefile.com
About SeeFile…
SeeFile LLC is an independent software company based in Boston,
Massachusetts. Its CEO, Sam Bogoch, was previously CEO of Torque
Systems, a systems integrator for the graphic arts, and was
recognized by Electronic Publishing magazine as one of its Minds on
the Milennium. SeeFile has received broad industry recognition from
reviews in Studio Photography and Design, Shutterbug Magazine and
Seybold Reports.
