Digital Rapids is providing the encoding capabilities powering live and on-demand video of the 2011 NAB Show on the official show website, www.nabshow.com. Expanding upon the on-demand content featured on the site during previous events, the NAB Show is for the first time featuring official daily webcasts, live from the show floor. The automated, high-performance Digital Rapids Transcode Manager software is being used in the production of on-demand content for the third consecutive year, while the TouchStream portable live streaming appliance is being used for encoding and streaming of the live webcasts.

Production teams are capturing and editing video throughout the event, including daily highlights packages; feature segments from the exhibition floor; selections from NAB sessions, luncheons and keynotes; interviews and more. The Transcode Manager software transforms the finished video segments into the formats required for online viewing. The resulting high-quality media files are then delivered to content distribution provider Highwinds for on-demand delivery to viewers through the Show's website.

New for this year's event is the addition of live webcasts to the NAB Show online offerings. Streamed live from a different location on the show floor each day, the hosted segments will feature news, highlights and topics relating to the day's content lifecycle theme. The portable, intuitive TouchStream appliance encodes the source video signal for online viewing and streams the result live to the Highwinds CDN for viewing through the Show site. TouchStream also simultaneously records the video to files for subsequent on-demand distribution or editing.

Digital Rapids Transcode Manager provides superior performance, quality and automation for multi-format transcoding. Scalable from small transcoding farms to enterprise-level operations, Transcode Manager is ideal for both dedicated transcoding applications and as part of complete ingest-through-delivery media workflows.

TouchStream delivers Digital Rapids' renowned quality and reliability in a portable appliance with unparalleled ease of use. Software controls are accessed through an intuitive touch-screen interface with integrated video monitoring, eliminating the need for laptops, keyboards, mice and separate monitors. Flexible features allow refinement of the incoming source and the addition of branding to the outgoing stream, while models supporting multiple formats provide easy adaptability to varying project requirements.

Digital Rapids Transcode Manager, TouchStream and other Digital Rapids solutions are being showcased in booth number SL6010 at the 2011 NAB Show, April 11-14 in Las Vegas.