The annual industry awards honor the top tier of new software and hardware being used in production and post today.

“We are happy to be recognized by the prestigious StudioDaily Prime Awards this year,” said DAX CEO/President Patrick Macdonald-King, “building on the momentum we started with the launch of our new 4.0 cloud platform at NAB and the opening of Canadian operations in Toronto. The award validates the work our team has done to become the leading production workflow platform serving our industry, and best of all we won an award for how easy it is to use the application – mission accomplished.”

The event, held in conjunction with NAB at the Las Vegas Convention Center on April 9, honors the top tier of new software and hardware being used in production and post today. The distinguished circle of nominees, holding the key to innovation in leading-edge technology, can be found at the link below:

http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/04/autodesk-smoke-2013-blackmagic-teranex-2d-sony-fs700-tiffen-filters-top-studiodaily-prime-awards/ .

Television shows currently using the DAX platform include: Homeland, NCIS, New Girl, The Walking Dead, CSI, American’s Next Top Model, Bones, The Mentalist, Two and a Half Men, Glee, How I Met Your Mother, Dexter and Mad Men, and all of the pilots for CBS Television Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. Television Studios. Recent feature film productions include Hunger Games, Twilight, 42, Dolphin Tale, Resident Evil 5, Beautiful Creatures, and Mortal Instruments, as well as many other tent pole and independent feature films

About DAX, LLC:
Formerly Sample Digital, in 2012 the company’s product became the company’s brand, and DAX ( www.daxcloud.com @daxplatform ) continues to lead the industry at center of the media universe. DAX is the leading provider of targeted production workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content.

The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and television networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents.

The company is based in Culver City, California, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services, as well as serving Canada’s media industry, and its clientele shooting in Canada, from its Toronto office. More information: http://www.daxcloud.com/ .

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Heading up the DAX Cloud office in Toronto, located at 693 Queen Street East, is Managing Director Thomas Walden, who has worked in a variety of Finance and Operations functions for some of Canada’s largest entertainment companies including Alliance Atlantis, Cineplex Odeon and Concert Productions International. Earlier in his career, Tom served as a Revenue Canada (now CRA) Tax Auditor. Tom has consulted on over 100 film and television projects and was also the Executive Producer of Canadian feature films including the award-winning “Expecting,” and “My Brother’s Keeper.”

Dan Duffin joins the DAX Canadian team overseeing and servicing accounts after a five-year stint as Director of Professional Authoring Services and more recently the Capsule Asset Management System for top Toronto Post house Creative Post.

Steve Hancock is on the DAX Cloud Board of Directors. Hancock was founder/CEO of adbeast, the SaaS digital asset management company serving the advertising industry, acquired by DG, the North American leader in digital media and advertising distribution services. With a background in marketing strategy development in the UK, U.S. and Canada, and ad agency management as CEO of TBWA/Chiat Canada, Hancock combines twenty years of marketing and executive leadership experience in building successful technology-based businesses and services.

Canada’s indigenous broadcasting and independent production industry yields almost $2.3 billion in annual economic activity annually. Clients already on board with DAX include such companies as CBC, CTV, Global, E1, Take 5 Productions and Lionsgate.

Patrick Macdonald-King, CEO/President of DAX, said, “This is an amazing first step in DAX’s global expansion in the ultimate quest of creating The Media Universe. Tom, Dan and Steve bring a breadth of experience that will be a winning advantage as DAX leads the way with Canada’s dynamic film and TV industry.”

DAX has a suite at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas at the Renaissance hotel adjacent to the South Hall, demonstrating its latest version DAX 4.0. Macdonald-King kicked off the April 8 session of the NAB Cloud Computing Conference titled Cloud Solutions for Content Creation, sponsored by DAX.

Television shows currently using the DAX platform include: Republic of Doyle, Homeland, NCIS, New Girl, The Walking Dead, CSI, American’s Next Top Model, Bones, The Mentalist, Two and a Half Men, Glee, How I Met Your Mother, Dexter and Mad Men, Hell on Wheels and all of the pilots for CBS Television Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. Television Studios. Recent feature film productions include Hunger Games, Twilight, 42, Dolphin Tale, Resident Evil 5, Beautiful Creatures, and Mortal Instruments, as well as many other tent pole and independent feature films.

About DAX, LLC:
Formerly Sample Digital, in 2012 the company’s product became the company’s brand, and DAX ( www.daxcloud.com @daxplatform ) continues to lead the industry at center of the media universe. DAX is the leading provider of targeted workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content. The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and television networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents.

The company is based in Culver City, Los Angeles, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services, as well as serving Canada’s media industry, and its clientele shooting in Canada, from its Toronto office. Learn more at: http://www.daxcloud.com/ .

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“We’re thrilled that our opening keynote speaker will be Amazon Web Services’ Global Digital Media Business Strategy Leader Mark Ramberg; and that our marquee keynotes include Disney’s Program Director, Cloud Hosting, Chris Launey, and IBM’s Lead Partner for Global Business Services, Saul Berman,” said DCIA CEO Marty Lafferty.

“We’re also very pleased to have on our agenda Patrick Macdonald-King, CEO/President, DAX, who will speak at our Monday session at 1 p.m. on Cloud Solutions for Content Creation,” added Lafferty.

DAX LLC, (formerly Sample Digital), is the leading provider of cloud workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content. DAX is launching the latest version of its platform, DAX 4.0, at NAB 2013.

CCC at NAB will feature more than seventy speakers in a two-day event track that will demonstrate the new ways cloud-based solutions are providing increased reliability and security, not only for commercial broadcasting and enterprise applications, but also for military and government implementations.

From collaboration during production, to post-production and formatting, to interim storage, delivery, and playback on fixed and mobile devices, to viewership measurement and big-data analytics, cloud computing is having an enormous impact on high-value multimedia distribution.

More information is available at http://bit.ly/Y4wrII and delegates can register to attend at http://bit.ly/TGKgjV .

About the DCIA:
The DCIA is an international trade organization, established in 2003, with more than one-hundred industry-leading member companies, including software developers, broadband network operators, and content providers. The DCIA conducts working groups, oversees political initiatives, and publishes the weekly online newsletter DCINFO.

ABOUT DAX, LLC:
Formerly Sample Digital, in 2012 the company’s product became the company’s brand, and DAX ( www.daxcloud.com @daxplatform ) continues to lead the industry at center of the media universe. DAX is the leading provider of targeted workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content.

The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and television networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents. The company is based in Culver City, Los Angeles, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services.

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DAX 4.0 introduces features such as:
* New User Interface.
* My Dashboard, a running feed of new activity in Your Media Universe® – view “new and unseen” content and filter file types.
* Forum-style, time code-based commenting, with updated review and approval tool.
* Improved search.
* Pop-Out Video, an enhanced screening tool for multi-screen presentation/play out.
* Enhanced reporting capabilities.

The DAX|MOBILE application, available on iTunes, incorporates all of the DAX 4.0 features for on-the-go iPad users.

The new 4.0 upgrade includes all of the DAX basics such as the tools to manage, ingest and review digital assets and metadata from pre-production, dailies from production, cuts and sequences from editorial and post, and throughout the content creation lifecycle including distribution of video, images, and documents

Patrick Macdonald-King, CEO/President of DAX, said, “As the leading digital workflow platform in the entertainment industry, we are responding to input from our many users. This application release simplifies DAX navigation, increases performance and overall makes our product better. It’s part of our ongoing commitment to content creators to make their media universe more accessible, creative, and collaborative.”

Macdonald-King will be a keynote speaker at the Cloud Computing Conference, a feature of this year’s NAB in Las Vegas. Macdonald-King will kick off the Monday, April 8, 1 p.m. session titled “Cloud Solutions for Content Creation,” sponsored by DAX. DAX will also have a NAB suite at the Renaissance hotel adjacent to the South Hall, demonstrating DAX 4.0, releasing April 2013.

Television shows currently using the DAX platform include: “Homeland,” “NCIS,” “New Girl,” “The Walking Dead,” “CSI,” “American’s Next Top Model,” “Bones,” “The Mentalist,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Glee,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Dexter” and “Mad Men;” and all of the pilots for CBS Television Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. Television Studios. Recent feature film productions include “Hunger Games,” “Twilight,” “42,” “Dolphin Tale,” “Resident Evil 5,” “Beautiful Creatures,” and “Mortal Instruments,” as well as many other tent pole and independent feature films.

ABOUT DAX, LLC:
Formerly Sample Digital, in 2012 the company’s product became the company’s brand, and DAX ( www.daxcloud.com @daxplatform ) continues to lead the industry at center of the media universe. DAX is the leading provider of targeted workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content. The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and television networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents. The company is based in Culver City, Los Angeles, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services.

More information: http://www.daxcloud.com/ .

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DAX will also have a NAB suite at the Renaissance hotel adjacent to the South Hall, demonstrating DAX 4.0, releasing April 2013.

The session will examine how cloud computing is being used for collaboration and other pre-production functions, as well as how dailies-screening and editing in the cloud are shaping the content production process.

“I am pleased to be part of the Cloud Computing Conference, organized by the DCIA, which recognizes the central role of cloud-based platforms, such as DAX, that are accelerating production workflows within all industries,” said Macdonald-King. “I look forward to discussing the current state of the market, why cloud is important for production and entertainment, and exciting future scenarios that are right around the corner supporting creative collaboration and transforming the industry’s media universe.”

The Cloud Computing Conference is a two-day event track at NAB, organized by the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), focused on cloud-based solutions providing increased reliability and security for commercial broadcasting and enterprise applications, as well as for military and government implementations. Macdonald-King is among the experts who will provide a senior management overview of all aspects of this ongoing phenomenon at NAB 2013.

Session location: N249. Please see http://www.daxcloud.com/news/NAB2013 for conference details.

ABOUT DAX, LLC:
Formerly Sample Digital, in 2012 the company’s product became the company’s brand, and DAX continues to lead the industry at center of the media universe. DAX (www.daxcloud.com @daxplatform), is the leading provider of targeted workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content. The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and television networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents. The company is based in Culver City, Los Angeles, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services. Learn more: http://www.daxcloud.com/ .

ABOUT DCIA:
The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is an international trade organization focused on commercial advancement of cloud computing and related technologies, particularly as they are deployed for delivery of high-value content. Member companies include industry-leading software developers and distributors, broadband network operators, content rights-holders, and service-and-support firms. Information: http://www.dcia.info/index.php .

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The half-day DAX Certification Course provided information and training that allow certified users to utilize the increasingly important technology behind the highly secure DAX cloud-based asset management and collaboration system introduced five years ago under the company’s former banner, Sample Digital, that has been adopted by most production studios and television networks and over 8,500 individuals in production.

Attendees included editors and assistant editors of the Motion Pictures Editors Guild, digital imaging technicians from the Local 600 cinematographers union as well as production coordinators, post production supervisors, music composers, and members of the Producers Guild (PGA). Networks and studios represented included CBS Television Studios, Warner Bros., Disney, Relativity Media, 20th Century Fox, AMC, A&E Networks, and the Los Angeles Film & TV Meetup Group, all current DAX users as well as many DAX first-timers.

“Amazing turn out – great to see such high interest in our perspective of the future in cloud based post-production workflow,” said CEO Patrick Macdonald-King. “We believe the key to tomorrow’s industry jobs is understanding the industry’s new digital business model and mastering its emerging technologies, including our widely used digital workflow platform. We look forward to bringing this training to more members of Hollywood’s production and post-production community as well as hosting a session in Toronto in the late spring.”

Session attendees learned DAX 4.0 new features such as the Dashboard, which provides an easy way to view “new and unseen” content available to the user, the new Forum style, time code-based commenting system, updated review and approval tool, updated and more robust search and metadata tools, and the new DAX|MOBILE application which puts in place the DAX 4.0 features in the iPad application.

Instruction also included DAX basics such as the tools to manage, ingest and review digital assets and metadata from pre-production, dailies from production, cuts and sequences from editorial and post, through the distribution of video, images, and documents. Instruction also covered DAX|MOBILE™ with iDailies®, a mobile iPad application distributed via iTunes. The mobile application brings all the production tools and features of desktop DAX to the iPad. Attendees were provided with a DAX|CERTIFIED logo for their resumes and websites.

Shows currently using the DAX platform include: “Homeland,” “NCIS,” “New Girl,” “The Walking Dead,” “CSI,” “American’s Next Top Model,” “Bones,” “The Mentalist,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Glee,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Dexter” and “Mad Men,” and all of the pilots for CBS Television Studios, 20th Century FOX, and Warner Bros. Television Studios. Recent feature film productions include “Ides of March,” “Hunger Games,” “Dolphin Tale,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Iron Man” and “Immortals,” as well as many independent feature films.

An announcement will be made when the next DAX Certification Course is scheduled and DAX also plans to host courses at participating studios. Companies and groups wishing to arrange private training sessions are invited to contact info@daxcloud.com.

About DAX, LLC:
Formerly Sample Digital, in 2012 the company’s product became the company’s brand, and DAX continues to lead the industry at center of the media universe. DAX is the leading provider of targeted workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content.

The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and television networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents.

The company is based in Culver City, Los Angeles, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services. More information: http://www.daxcloud.com/ .

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The new patent, issued as U.S. Patent No. 8,218,764, covers the DAX media workflow platform that offers a suite of applications, including Digital Dailies® and iDailies®, which optimize the business and creative process in content production and distribution management.

“This patent marks the leadership role that DAX holds within the industry for technology relating to the collaboration of media content throughout the entire content creation production process,” stated Patrick Macdonald King, CEO of DAX, and Chairman of Sample Digital Holdings.

“For nearly a decade, our targeted research, creative vision and real world application of DAX technology has delivered the tools needed by studios, broadcast and cable companies to easily and effectively collaborate on all aspects workflow and production of media content. Our continuing efforts to develop and advance our technology for the future give us a competitive edge in this field.”

Headquartered in Culver City, DAX LLC delivers cloud applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content. Clients include such creative leaders as 20th Century Fox, CBS, Warner Bros., Showtime, A&E Networks, Starz, AMC, and Lionsgate.

DAX is a highly secure online environment where users can share ideas, information and content created throughout the production or campaign lifecycle, or as required for trafficking and distribution of final product. DAX incorporates workflow, collaboration, transcoding, distribution and security services into one robust, extendible solution available via desktop, set top box and mobile applications such as DAX|Mobile.

ABOUT DAX LLC:
DAX (www.daxcloud.com) is the leading provider of targeted workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual content. The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and television networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents.

The company is based in Culver City, Los Angeles, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services. Formerly Sample Digital, in 2012 the company’s product became the company’s brand, and DAX continues to lead the industry at center of the media universe.

More information: http://www.daxcloud.com/ .

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“Our primary product has always been DAX and now it’s aligned with the company name,” said Patrick Macdonald-King, DAX CEO, “Daily use by so many people of our platform has made DAX a household name for content creators, in the same way people ‘TiVo a show,’ or ‘Xerox a document.’ More people every day are ‘Daxing’ documents, video and stills every day.”

Major film and TV companies actively using DAX, include such companies as Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, CBS, Showtime, A&E Networks and Lionsgate. DAX offices have recently relocated from Hollywood to Culver City to accommodate expansion while remaining close to clients at the heart of the media universe.

“Our company has seen amazing revenue growth allowing us to add top talent at all levels to serve our expanding client base,” said Macdonald-King.

The DAX name is derived from “Digital Asset Xchange” and best reflects the product, services and legacy of the company. The online platform evolved from Hollywood roots in three start-ups: DAX Solutions (digital asset management software), Digital Dailies® (the trademarked innovator of online dailies), and Sample Media Services, an encoding and digital packaging service provider. In April 2007, Sample Digital Holdings secured a major round of funding and rolled up the three companies into a new entity, focused on building a next generation end-to-end workflow product for major media producers and distributors.

Designed by leading experts and incorporating over eight years of customer feedback and research, Sample Digital rolled out its new platform DAX|D3 in April, 2009. In 2011, Sample Digital introduced DAX|MOBILE™ with iDailies® exclusively for iPad, developed to meet the industry’s demand for 24/7 media consumption anywhere via iPad. After rebranding itself in December 2012, DAX is gearing up towards the release of the 4.0 version of the DAX application in January 2013.

With a view towards the growing ranks of overseas clients for its DAX platform and expanding business across global time zones, DAX pursuing a presence in China as well as a DAX office in Canada to be announced in early 2013.

About DAX, LLC:
DAX (www.daxcloud.com) is the leading provider of targeted workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual and rich media content. The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and television networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents.

The company is based in Los Angeles, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services. Formerly Sample Digital, in 2012 the company’s product became the company’s brand, and DAX continues to lead the industry at center of the media universe.

More information: http://www.daxcloud.com/ .

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“Content production technologies like our DAX production process management platform are becoming essential tools for media companies,” said Macdonald-King, “and I was honored to meet Chinese executives to discuss how we can join hands to work together as they rapidly build a world-class industry.”

The one-day conference took place November 1 in Tianjin, China’s third-largest city, which is the site of the Binhai New Area – Yujiapu, an officially designated economic growth zone fueled by a $32B Chinese government investment aimed at creating a center for home-grown Chinese media and entertainment.

Estimated Chinese media and entertainment industry revenue was US$46B in 2011 with a year-on-year growth of 17.7 percent. China will be the world’s fastest-growing entertainment and media market over the next five years, according to financial forecasts, with a 12 percent average annual growth rate. The sector continues to be underdeveloped in relation to the overall Chinese economic output, spurring the Ministry of Culture to declare the country’s goal to double the output of the culture industry by 2015, with the intention of offering domestic Chinese content as an alternative to overseas product. The Chinese government invested $18.5 billion in the cultural sector in the first five months of 2012, up 28.2 percent over 2011.

With a view towards its growing ranks of overseas clients for its DAX platform and expanding business in global time zones, Sample Digital is in talks to establish a Chinese regional office in the near future. A regional DAX office in Canada will be announced in early 2013.

In addition to Sample Digital, other companies represented at the Tianjin conference included IMAX, Prime Focus, Legendary Pictures, Sony Pictures, Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Pegasus Motion Pictures, Beijing Galloping Horse, Goldman Sachs, Softbank and JP Morgan Chase.

About Sample Digital/DAX:
Sample Digital, creator of DAX (www.daxcloud.com), is the leading provider of targeted workflow and media asset management applications and services to companies that produce, distribute and license audio-visual and rich media content. The DAX platform is a highly-secure innovative web-based community used by most major studios and networks for collaboration and distribution management of content during the production process, for marketing and distribution of final product, and for easily accessible library management for re-use of production elements, including video, audio, photos and documents. The company is based in Los Angeles, close to the major Hollywood studios and networks it services.

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