Pinnacle Systems has been awarded an Emmy for technical achievement by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). The company's ninth Emmy was given for developing advanced technology that uses low resolution proxies to facilitate editing and broadcast of news and other programmes.

An official release informs that Pinnacle's Vortex technology enables a broadcaster to simultaneously encode a high resolution, broadcast-ready copy and a lower resolution copy of their video. This lower resolution copy requires dramatically less bandwidth and storage, making it easily distributable over ubiquitous, low-cost networks.

Standard, inexpensive desktop computers can replace traditional specialised video workstations, enabling a far greater number of users than ever before possible to edit video from PCs located anywhere in the building or around the globe. The system automatically synchronises those edit decisions with the high-resolution video which is then played back out to air.

Pinnacle Systems provides broadcasters and consumers with cutting-edge digital media creation, storage, and play-back solutions for use at Home, in the Studio and on the Air. Pinnacle Systems' digital media solutions are used around the world for broadcast, video and audio editing, DVD and CDR authouring and on the Internet.