Blackmagic Design Acquires Teranex Systems

Blackmagic Design announced that it has acquired Teranex Systems – a manufacturer of high performance video processing and conversion products for the postproduction and broadcast industries.

“Teranex is a strategic acquisition for Blackmagic Design,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “Its technology, solutions and market complement our own efforts and its high quality video processing technology enables us to provide our customers with even higher levels of video quality – extending Blackmagic Design’s product range for the broadcast, feature film and high end postproduction markets.”

“This is an exciting milestone for our company,” said Mike Poirier, general manager of Teranex. “We are extremely happy to be part of the Blackmagic Design team. Blackmagic Design’s global reach, leading edge technologies, widely recognized brand name, strong systems and networking expertise and worldwide customer relationships make it an ideal partner for Teranex.”

Teranex Systems’ VC100 series of broadcast image processor products include options for high quality deinterlace, up conversion, down conversion, SD and HD cross conversion, SD and HD standards conversion, automatic cadence detection and removal even with edited content, noise reduction, adjustable scaling, aspect ratio conversion and smart aspect ratio 4:3 to 16:9 conversion, all with full time code and multi-channel audio conversion. The company’s new 3D toolkit now adds 3D camera alignment, 3D dual channel conversions and new patent pending 3D simulation.