Ultimatte DV

Ultimatte are recognized as the World’s leading producer of hardware compositing systems, having received Oscar and Emmy awards for their products and work over the past 25 years. Ultimatte DV is the company’s first hardware solution aimed at the Digital Video market. The new product will go on sale in April 2005 and will feature functions and video connectivity to suit the DV user, with S-Video (Y/C) and Composite camera inputs, together with DV (Firewire, IEEE-1394) for both input of backgrounds and output of the composite.

“Providing real time compositing solutions for the DV market is a natural step forward for Ultimatte”, commented Lynne Sauve, Ultimatte’s President, “Reflecmedia’s products meet the needs of the DV user and as such the combination of both products offers a great solution for achieving high quality results at an achievable price”.

Simon Westland, Managing Director of Reflecmedia said, “we are delighted to work with Ultimatte on the launch of this exciting new product, such is the quality of their hardware that customers aspire to owning an ‘Ultimatte’ and now they can achieve that goal with a unit specific to the DV market.” Westland continues, “…from the moment development commenced it was clear that the product offered something special for the new breed of Ultimatte and Reflecmedia customers alike - providing studio quality results at DV prices”.

The first opportunity to see Ultimatte DV is at DV Expo West in Los Angeles (8-10 December 2005), where the two companies will show the unit together with Reflecmedia’s portable ChromaFlex product.