University of Nebraska Women's Basketball Team Tips Off Season With Profile PRO Series Platform—Grass Valley Group's Digital Video Recorder, Dixon Sports Computing Software Combine To Cut Highlights Package Preparation Time in Half—"We've cut the time necessary to prepare highlight packages in half," said Jeff Walz, assistant coach of the Huskers women's team. "The amount of work we can now produce is amazing." Reviewing game highlights has long helped professional and collegiate athletes gain a competitive edge. Yet assembling them using traditional, non-linear videotape machines can be time-consuming. The Profile PRO Series offers a fast, easy, and cost-effective alternative. Much like songs on a compact disc, it captures and stores video of specific passes, picks, or shots for instant recall, without the wasted time of rewinding or advancing a videotape. Combined with the Dixon software, the Profile PRO Series lets coaches quickly identify and assemble key video clips for a variety of uses. "We can include the same pick-and-roll play in highlight packages for a guard, a forward, or the entire team," Walz said. "That ability to combine customization with video re-use can accelerate a player's development as well as the team's overall performance." Using a two-channel Profile PRO Series recorder, Walz and the Husker staff will capture and store full-length video from the Huskers' 25 regularly scheduled games as well as games of their opponents. Using the Dixon software package, the coaches can then identify and log specific highlights in a database of video clips that they can search, sort, and assemble in any order. "As PCs brought the power of computing to the desktop, digital video technologies are giving organizations of all sizes cutting-edge tools never before available," said Tim Thorsteinson, president and chief operating officer of the Grass Valley Group. "We're excited to see new markets gain access to the power and performance of Profile technology, and we're proud of the role it's playing at the University of Nebraska." "Dixon Sports is proud to partner with the Grass Valley Group to provide sports teams of all sizes with innovative tools to improve their competitiveness," said Michael Dixon, president of Dixon Sports Computing. "The powerful capabilities of our software and the ease of use of the Profile PRO Series recorder is a perfect match for our customers." The intersection of sports and digital video is a familiar one for the Grass Valley Group. Its well-known line of Profile digital video servers is used as a coaching tool by a variety of professional sports teams, including the NFL's St. Louis Rams and Cincinnati Bengals and Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves and Anaheim Angels. Profile technology is also used by the football team at the West Point Military Academy, the football and men's and women's basketball programs at the University of North Carolina, and the Duke University men's basketball team. The Profile PRO Series is an entirely new class of digital video product that delivers the superior quality and reliability of the Profile digital video server family in a cost-effective package for both of traditional and emerging-market applications. The flexible product line offers two video channels, four to 10 hours of internal storage or RAID, up to eight audio channels per video channel, and a choice of JPEG or MPEG-2 video compression. Customers can purchase a PRO Series product pre-packaged with a choice of leading editing, automation, and replay applications. The Grass Valley Group is a privately held digital broadcast and video equipment company at the forefront of the transition to digital transmission and video content production and has more than $2 billion of equipment installed worldwide. Whether it's distributing video over the air, through digital broadcast facilities and across standard data networks, or providing the industry's best video storage and production products, the Grass Valley Group has the digital solution. Its product lines include the Emmy® award-winning Profile digital video server family and the Grass Valley™ router, switcher, and modular product lines. For the latest Grass Valley Group product information, see www.grassvalleygroup.com. # Grass Valley Group and Profile are registered trademarks and Grass Valley is a trademarks of Grass Valley Group Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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