Esempi di
applicazioni
Cinema Products Corp. automates
bar code reading on motion picture film using Wedge
Cinema Products manufactures
equipment for the motion picture industry, including the Oscar and
Emmy award winning Steadicam. They have been in business for 25
years, with approximately 50 employees. They sell to all areas of
film and video production, from camera operators to post production
and consumer video.
Film scenes are tracked directly
from bar codes on the film into a computer database using WinWedge
Cinema Products developed a system
that utilizes a special bar code scanner for reading bar-coded key
numbers from the edge of motion picture film. These numbers are used
to keep track of specific scenes and takes selected during editing.
A common application is to transfer film to video, edit in video,
and then cut the film to match the video edit. The key numbers are
read during the film to video transfer and stored on the video for
extraction during editing. The SoftwareWedge for Windows Standard
version (WinWedge) is used when logging bar code data from edited
film rolls into a computer database.
Before learning of WinWedge, Cinema
Products customers were typing the visually read data into the
keyboard of their PCs. Other customers had developed their own
custom application programs to solve the problem of getting the data
from the RS232 scanner into their PC applications.
WinWedge Benefits
The major advantage of the WinWedge
is that it eliminated the need for custom software since it is
completely compatible with ALL Windows, Windows 95, NT and DOS
application programs and it can transfer the RS232 data to an
application while remaining transparent to the user. Hence the
customers are able to use their existing application programs,
including databases.
"I feel the WinWedge greatly
enhances the desirability of our equipment" said Jim Bartell, an
engineer at Cinema Products Corp., "I would absolutely recommend it
to others with a similar application."
He also said he was especially
happy with the WinWedge’s "ability to ‘edit’ the incoming data to
match existing software requirements", and he adds, "I wish I had
thought of it!".
Benefits
- Transparent to user
- Eliminated need for custom
software
- Compatibility with any Window
3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT and DOS platforms
- Ability to parse and filter data
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