Discreet announced heatwave, a new infrastructure and workflow environment that integrates Discreet's editing, effects and animation solutions as well as third party applications across various networks, operating systems and platforms. Discreet also announced that its non-linear online finishing system smoke will offer real-time, HDTV input/output with Multi-Master Editing capabilities for SGI's new Octane2 with DMediaPro DM2 and the Onyx 3000 series with DMediaPro DM3.

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With the continued industry demand to increase productivity, heatwave represents Discreet's interactive workflow environment that enables broadcast, post-production and content creation companies to capture, manage, share, distribute and archive media assets for all resolutions including HDTV and film. As part of heatwave, Discreet also announces a strategic partnership with da Vinci Systems, Inc. to create Discreet revival, an interactive and automated film cleaning and image fixing software.