In 2000, we reached a point where relying on existing tools and programs wasn't sufficient to meet the needs of our clients. So naturally we set out to include a software development side to Whatever Digital. Since our skill set has grown to include many different languages and technologies to better serve our clients needs. It includes:
- Action Script (1,2,3) for Flash and Flex
- C++
- C#
- Java
- Java Script
- HTML (including the emerging HTML 5)
- CSS
- MySQL
- PHP
- Microsoft .Net
- Adobe Media Server
- Mobile development (Android and iOS)
- Supporting standards and technologies like XML, JSON, DirectShow, Media Foundation, Windows Media, ASIO and many others
With our existing knowledge base, coming up to speed with other programming languages when needed isn't difficult.
Jellies Swarm Server | Monterey Bay Aquarium
With a half sphere dome spanning 8 feet in diameter, the total surface area when corrected for curvature is the equivalent to a 170 inch display. With the quality standards the designers at the Aquarium have always prided themselves on, a display of that size needed the highest pixel density possible. They selected a projector with a native resolution that exceeded 2K standards of 2560×1600, and it was up to us to find a flawless playback solution that not only could handle they data rate of an uncompressed video at that resolution, but also could sync to a secondary video stream with bi-lingual captions of the narrated 3D animation.
We looked into how to best push that much video data and settled on a utilizing a custom presenter provided by Window’s Enhanced Video Renderer, and built the computer with a second video card to handle the status reporting. The final result is flawless playback that is without stuttering or image tearing.
Tyson CDI Tool | Tyson Chicken
With modern day computing power, for many, data is king. But organizing massive amounts of data to efficiently, and to learn from it is a modern day challenge. For Tyson, the shear amount of data they collect quarterly is massively daunting. Being a skilled analyst doesn't automatically make you gifted with database management. This is where we come in.
We created a custom front end interface to a complex MySQL database that allows a team at Tyson to easily track existing trends but to discover new ones. By listening to our client, we were able to rapidly build a tool that Tyson relies on for reporting, sales and making strategic decisions.
Press Kit System and Media Management System | Dobly Laboratories
Public facing site
Password protected dashboard
At its core, Dolby Laboratories is an intellectual property and licensing company. And in the rapidly changing marketplace of media technology, it's important to be able to quickly and efficiently publish their market place victories to media outlets. With that need in mind, we created a custom media manage system that not only stores and encodes their media assets, but provides them an easy method to create, publish and maintain digital press kits that can be used by the media to help them spread Dolby news.
In addition to creating this system, we remain contracted not only maintain it, but to provide round the clock support for Dolby and their partners to insure that the underlining vision of the system is successful.