Focus Enhancements Announces Focus MediaShare

September 23, 2009 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Campbell, CA – September 23, 2009 - Today, Focus Enhancements Inc.-a worldwide leader in video recording, media management, and digital audio technology-announced MediaShare, a new subscription-based content management service for video producers, studios, and departments. Featuring Direct To Web™ workflow, Focus MediaShare makes it simple for video professionals to transfer proxies of recordings, complete with metadata, bringing the benefits of Focus FS DTE Recorder workflow to online MediaShare workspaces where team members and clients can logon and view clips instantly. Proxies of dailies, rough cuts, and finished projects can also be uploaded quickly and easily. With its robust browser-based interface and built-in annotation and clip-rating tools, MediaShare reduces production time, increases opportunity for collaboration, and improves productivity-all for a modest monthly fee.

"Our FS customers have asked for a place to store, share, and publish their professional video files on the Internet," said Matt McEwen, Director of Product Management at Focus Enhancements. "Focus MediaShare provides a comprehensive content management solution that's fully integrated with our award-winning FS DTE recorders, making it an invaluable tool for video producers who want to improve productivity and provide clients a convenient and professional way to review video from any location."

Focus MediaShare was developed in partnership with MediaSilo, based in Boston, MA. To learn more about Focus MediaShare, visit www.focusmediashare.com.

Pricing and Availability
Available now, MediaShare offers two types of subscriptions-$79 per month for a Basic subscription and $129 per month for the Pro subscription service. For more information or to subscribe today, please visit www.focusmediashare.com.

Features:
Instant Proxy Publishing
- Go from acquisition to sharing with Direct To Web workflow
- Transfer proxies-complete with metadata-to your MediaShare online workspace

Online Video Library
- Store and deliver proxies and source files of your entire library online
- Use native and user-defined metadata to tag, organize, and find the clips in your library

Sharing, Collaboration, and Broadcast
- Provide team members and clients with online access to dailies, rough cuts, and finished projects with unprecedented speed
- Use the annotation tool to add notes to clips; perfect for collaboration, review, clip rating, and signoff
- Publish reels, clips, and completed content with a simple, flexible multi-clip embedded channel or single clip embeds

Video on the Go
- Access your video library from any location
- MediaShare creates mobile-ready proxy files that are optimized for viewing on your iPhone or other smart mobile devices

About Focus Enhancements, Inc.
Focus Enhancements, Inc. headquartered in Campbell, CA, is a leading designer of world-class solutions in advanced video and audio technologies. The company's System Group develops video products for the digital media markets, with customers in the broadcast, video production, and digital asset management segments. The company's Semiconductor Division develops application specific standard product (ASSPs), which address the audio distribution and the TV-out video encoder markets. More information on Focus Enhancements may be obtained by visiting the Focus Enhancements website at http://www.focusinfo.com.

Focus Press:

Geol Yeadon
Focus Enhancements, Inc.
408.866.8300 ext 165
gyeadon@focusinfo.com

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