Delivering Success

Through Innovation, Value and Global Workflow

IBC Post News

!  Cinnafilm Dark Energy integrated into Quantel –  High quality noise reduction –  Grain addition –  Sharpening

!  Uses fast GPU processing !  Available now for eQ, iQ and Pablo

IBC News: Mission 2

!  Major update for Quantel’s integrated MAM !  New in Mission 2

–  MediaCenter !  Better file delivery !  Tighter archive integration !  More metadata editing

–  Support for larger systems –  Support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language

!  Available from January 2011

Quantel – Leaders in Stereo3D

!   IBC 2007 !   First showing of Quantel

Stereo 3D Pablo !   Hannah Montana, Avatar,

World Cup Soccer !   100+ Systems sold

More than half our post business this FY is S3d related

Pablo wins Lumiere Award

!   Award recognizes individuals and organizations that had the most significant impact on the advancement of the S3D medium from Jan. 1, 1980 through Dec. 31, 2009

!   Pablo is the only post system to win a Lumiere award

!   “The groundbreaking work of these companies and professionals will influence motion picture storytelling for generations to come.” Lenny Lipton, I3DS Awards Chair

New Stereo3D tools in Pablo and iQ

!  New or refined tools based on extensive user feedback

!  Stereo effects timeline !  Rig correction tools !   Improved vergence controls

!  Make s3d post even faster and more creative

Broadcast Stereo3D

!   Sports production workflow available in Enterprise sQ !   Ingest, desktop editing, craft editing, delivery

!  New Qube editor for Stereo 3D and 1080p –  Real time performance, Pablo s3d tools

!   S3D is great example of Quantel innovation leading to business success for our customers

!   Same great workflow in S3D as in Enterprise sQ in 2D today

Quantel: HD News and Sports Leaders

!  45 Enterprise sQ Systems broadcasting HD !  All around the globe

–  UK, USA, Japan, Korea, Germany, France, Australia, Canada

!  Fast turnaround workflow

!  Why does it succeed? !  Workflow

New Enterprise sQ developments

!  Project folders !  User rights !  Edge browse creation !  Workflow, workflow, workflow !  All in V5 software shipping November 2010

File-based workflow

!  Cost savings through use of standard IT components !  Enhanced flexibility through freedom from real-time !   Increasingly complex systems !  Cost shifts from hardware to software !  Benefits not easy to realise

!  Massive opportunity for Quantel innovation !  What is a file anyway?

Mutating Filesystems: Making IT work for Broadcast

James Westland Cain, Ph.D. Principal Software Architect

Quantel Limited

Filesystems •  The file is the most basic thing in computer

science – and the lifeblood of our industry. •  Files on disk are inflexible. Whatever is on disk

is what you get. •  Quantel can offer files to order – without writing

them all to a disk. •  This works with any modern OS

– Windows, OS-X, Linux – and therefore to any modern program.

Mutating Filesystems •  Treating a file request as a command allows us

to be extremely flexible. •  However, we must not break the rules – the

applications do not expect the files to change underneath them.

•  A mutating filesystem must have some of the properties of the Web – it must be RESTful.

Putting Work into the File •  By honouring RESTful paths we can safely

turn a file system access into a command. •  By adding sizers and codecs to our

filesystem, we can dynamically create content to order.

•  This makes us able to be the most flexible essence container in the industry.

Examples •  SAM – offering DPX & TIFF files of any size and

colour space (LUT) to order – instantly. •  FCP – offering compressed QuickTime &

XMEML files whilst still recording. •  Internet – Offering h.264 (MOOF) & ISMC files to

MS-IIS / Smooth Streaming, to see content anywhere on the planet within seconds.

Conclusion •  Files are the Lingua Franca of IT. •  Control the files, change the rules. •  By changing the rules, IT R&D spend can be

more readily used to make media production workflows.

•  Instant access to live assets, with frame accurate editing, anywhere.

Introducing Project ‘QTube’

!   Instant access !  Live assets !  Frame accurate editing !  Anywhere

Project ‘QTube’ – Global workflow

TV Studio Ingest Storage Playout

Remote location Viewing Editing Logging Ingest

QTube technology

EnterprisesQ

RIA Viewing Logging

sQ Cut Editing

QFS Web Server

The Net

Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming

Security

Frame Identity H264 Low Res

Metadata

Mutable Files Virtualisation

XML Manifests Editing Decisions

Local content Delta Editing

Silverlight App Open API

RESTful Content Delivery

Network

Scaleability Everywhere

Ray Cross CEO

Quantel Innovation and Value

!  First in HD

!  First in Stereo 3D

!  First in Global Media Workflow

Building Shareholder Value

!  Building Shareholder Value for our customers

Builds Shareholder Value for Quantel

!  Quantel Manufactures Workflows that Work

!  Customers get rapid payback - typically less than 1 year

Workflows at Work !   €15 million repeat business from 10 current customers

QVC UK, Italy, Germany ESPN USA

BSkyB UK Ibertelco Portugal

JSports Japan TV3 Malaysia

QVC Europe TPC Switzerland Fox Sports Australia TV Globo Brazil

!   €15 million from 5 new customers SBS Australia

Televisa Mexico

ERTU Egypt

Discovery USA

TRK Ukraine

Q Workflow uses COTS IT

!   Commodity (IT based products) are only part of the answer

!   Deployed in a Q Wrapper they make good commercial sense

!   Customers get the best of both worlds

Get Final Cut Pro edits on air instantly

Use media created anywhere by anything regardless of resolution

Now – get frame accurate media including metadata from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world – over the web!

Sales, Overheads & Profit

Return on Sales 10% 18% 21% 28%

£ millions

39 40 43

54

25 24 24 26

4 7 9

15

Sales Overheads EBIT

2009 Actual 2010 Plan 2010 Actual 2011 Plan

To the Future

!   Quantel succeeds by helping our customers succeed

!   Create shareholder value for our Customers and Quantel

!   Double digit Organic growth for sales and profit year on year

!   And the Future starts at IBC

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