08/17/06

Optimizing the industry leading change management solution for audio post

(August 18, 2006) — Virtual Katy™ Development Limited, a Digidesign® development partner delivering workflow solutions for audio professionals, today announced the availability of VK 2.1. The new point release offers workflow enhancements that fine tune VK ergonomics and elevate the overall change management performance. VK 2.1 deepens the control over the change management process and delivers a comprehensive solution for mastering the Pro Tools environment. “Mass adoption of our VK products has provided us with a unique opportunity to understand how we can further enhance our solutions to optimize the audio post process,” comments John McKay, founder, Virtual Katy. “The user feedback has proved to be invaluable in building our product road map and evolving our solutions.”

VK 2.1 Highlights:

• Event Management: Elect any number of events and conform just those events.
  
• Event Filtering: One click and events can be sorted by source time or destination time
  
• Event Alerts: Alerts in the status bar indicates the number of change events detected as well as the progress of your conform.
  
• Precise Triggering Controls: VK users can now set both a destination hour, or hour and minute.
  
• Expanded Format Support: VK 2.1 allows key number as well as ink number Cutlists to be loaded.
  
• Intuitive EDL Management: Drag and dropping an EDL when there is no project now creates a blank project to store it.
  
• Intuitive Import Support: Importing a Change Note automatically sets a project to 24fps.

Availability and Pricing
VK 2.1 is available today through the Virtual Katy reseller channel and Virtual Katy web site for 995.00 USD MSRP. Existing users of VK 2.0 and 1.0 are entitled to upgrade to VK 2.1 for free. Upgrades can be downloaded from the Virtual Katy web site at; www.virtualkaty.com/downloads.

Users who receive the VK Conformer utility tool through the Digidesign Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools DV Tool Kit 2 bundle are entitled to upgrade to the VK 2.1 full change management solution for $500. For more information about Virtual Katy and VK products, please visit the web site at www.virtualkaty.com.

About Virtual Katy Products
Virtual Katy offers two distinct products for the audio post market: VK Conformer and VK2. VK Conformer is Virtual Katy’s auto conform work horse. Designed for the sole purpose of non-destructively conforming and recompiling Pro Tools sessions, VK Conformer is cut from the original battle-hardened Virtual Katy software which was put to the test on Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Import an Avid Change Note or a CMX 3600 EDL and conform your session to exactly match the picture cut. VK Conformer is available on the Virtual Katy web site (www.virtualkaty.com) and through the Virtual Katy reseller channel for $395.00USD.

VK2 is the ultimate change management tool. A quantum leap ahead of its peers in processing speed, version tracking and comparison engine techniques, VK2 users can analyze all major formats, preview changes, trace historical elements, rebalance movies, and process up to 2500 picture edits in less than a second. Packaged with all of the features VK2 is available on the Virtual Katy web site (www.virtualkaty.com) and through the Virtual Katy reseller channel for $995.00USD.

About Virtual Katy Development Limited
Virtual Katy Development Limited is a New Zealand based software developer focused on delivering innovative solutions for the postproduction world. Their flagship product, VK, is a battle hardened program designed for audio professionals.