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USC Selects YesVideo to Digitize Athletic Video LibraryHigh-Quality Processing Protects and Organizes Generations of Trojan Sports Footage SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - June 20, 2007) - USC Athletics and YesVideo announced today that the entire USC Athletics video library will be transferred to digital. The objectives of this project are to transfer all recorded athletic content to digital files that can be easily accessed and to protect this historic media from degradation. The USC Athletics video library is comprised of multiple media formats and includes recorded athletic events dating back to the 1930s. The collection includes competitions from their football, basketball, baseball, track & field, volleyball, and other sports programs. The USC game library was stored on thousands of professional format videotapes and over 1.5 million feet of movie film. YesVideo will index the games and convert the video and film libraries to MPEG-2 digital video files. These digital video files will then be rendered to hard disc drives for easy electronic access and authored on archive-quality gold DVD media. "We are excited to bring our video and film libraries of athletic events into the digital age," said Tim Tessalone, Sports Information Director, from USC. "This collection of memorable sporting events has accumulated over nearly 80 years of footage and has been stored away on original vintage media formats. By converting these assets to a standard digital format, these priceless moments are being preserved for generations and organized for easier accessibility." USC is planning to make the digitized files available to their fans and alumni in a soon-to-be-announced major Internet venture. YesVideo combines the latest in video and automation technology with the highest level of quality control to ensure successful transfer of these historic events to digital. In addition to inclusion of titles with the game files, YesVideo will also automatically scan the content for natural chapter breaks. These chapter breaks will be used to create visual menus on the DVDs that allow quick and efficient searching within the game. "We are pleased that USC Athletics has selected YesVideo to process their priceless video collection," said Gregory Ayres, Chief Operating Officer of YesVideo. "The handling and processing of aging media content takes specialized skills and care. Such a project is typically very tedious and expensive. In order to make this project cost effective for USC, YesVideo will take advantage of its automated technology in the conversion to digital." About YesVideo YesVideo, Inc. (http://www.yesvideo.com), the world leader in on-demand, digital publishing, is dedicated to providing easy and affordable solutions to preserve and access important video events. As the leader in automated digital media authoring, YesVideo develops and utilizes best-in-class video engineering and state-of-the-art software technology to enable top-quality, on-demand digital publishing. Founded in 1999 by Sai-Wai Fu, a pioneer in digital video compression technology, YesVideo is a privately held company, with headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. In addition to professional and corporate projects, YesVideo provides digital transfer services to consumers at 30,000 retail locations. About USC USC has a proud athletic heritage. Trojan teams have won more national championships -- 86 men's (including a national-best 73 NCAA titles) and 20 women's -- than all but 2 other schools. USC men athletes have won more individual NCAA titles (301) than those from any other school in the nation (the Women of Troy have brought home another 51 individual NCAA crowns). Since 1904, 362 Trojan athletes have competed in the Olympic Games, taking home 112 gold medals (with at least 1 gold in every summer Olympics since 1912), 66 silver and 58 bronze. USC student-athletes have received 50 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, in the Top 10 among all schools. In addition, USC has had 28 first team Academic All-Americans and 3 athletes who were Rhodes Scholars. # # #
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