Profile
Cube-Tec International develops integrated solutions for large media archives. As a pioneer in quality control of media workflows, the company focuses on open standards and agile process automation. Cube-Tec benefits from a great deal of experience with large-scale media digitization projects. Furthermore, Cube-Tec offers state-of-the-art products for content verification and media automation service platforms for modern file-based workflows using reference and non-reference based quality assessment methods.
QUADRIGA the worldwide reference in archive migration provides highly efficient solutions for the reformatting of large collections of physical media. It delivers audio, video, or motion picture archive master files. QUADRIGA combines a rigorous quality-control with an extraordinary high data throughput.
To streamline workflows in large-scale media processing projects CubeWorkflow provides distributed quality-controlled process automation for audiovisual content. The core part of CubeWorkflow is the flexible rule-based workflow and analytics engine which works event driven and provides flexible browser-based dashboards.
Being installed in over 100 facilities in 26 different countries, Cube-Tec's products and solutions are used by many of the world's most prestigious broadcast and media archives which makes Cube-Tec the worldwide leading company in this niche market.
Cube-Tec has licensed its technologies to companies like Adobe (for Premiere Pro) and Steinberg Media Technologies, performs services for federal and governmental departments all over the world and has a long history in working in European R&D projects. and with standardization bodies like SMPTE, AMWA and EBU.
Cube-Tec International has a US based subsidiary, Cube-Tec North America LLC, since 2009 and longstanding sales partnerships in all continents.
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Management Team
Jörg Houpert studied electrical engineering at the University of Bremen, with the focus on digital signal processing and psychoacoustics. For more than ten years Jörg has been a sustaining member of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), the German Acoustical Society (DEGA) and the Association of the German Tonmeister (VDT). Furthermore, he is an active member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the German Society of Television and Motion-Picture Engineers (FKTG). Within the EBU technical communities, Jörg provides support in order to harmonize media technology according to the recommendations of the European Broadcasting Union and works on the standardization of interoperable media services in the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA). Moreover, he holds a few patents and pending patents in the field of digital signal processing and has more than 20 years of project management experience from entrepreneur to heading engineering groups with more than 30 graduated engineers. His pioneering work has lead to working relationships with the most prestigious and demanding institutions all over the world. In his capacity as Cube-Tec International's technical director his current interest is to develop new technologies for the safeguarding of the worldwide audiovisual cultural heritage and to create better solutions for the management of media workflows.
Tom Lorenz studied sound engineering at the Academy of Music Berlin from 1987 to 1993. After having received his degree as a Diplom-Tonmeister, he worked as a sales and support engineer for Sonic Solutions. As a project engineer for Media Consult International, a subsidiary company of Studio Hamburg, Tom implemented studio installations in Broadcast stations inside and outside of Germany from 1995 to 2002. He then joined HDA/Cube-Tec as a sales engineer in 2002 and became one of the managing partners of Cube-Tec International in 2006. In his daily business as Cube-Tec's sales director Tom benefits from more than 15 years of experience with highly professional clients in the audio industry.
The core members of Cube-Tec's development and quality assurance team have been working together for more than 10 years which makes them a highly efficient and optimized team.
Company Background
The German based medium-sized company has been known for its outstanding mastering, restoration and archive solutions in the audio domain for more than 15 years now.
The company came into being as part of the restructuring of Houpert Digital Audio (HDA) which was founded in 1990 and developed the AudioCube digital audio workstation, known for its ultra-high quality mastering and restoration technology. At the same time, the ARD (German Public Service Broadcasting Network) and the European Broadcast Union research groups were looking for solutions to ensure the quality of the final transfer from single sound carriers to mass-storage devices.
This project was coordinated by the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT, Broadcast Technology Institute).
Their cooperation with HDA enabled them to specify the feature set for a special archive ingest workstation. HDA is also known for its QUADRIGA - the first dedicated quality-controlled audio mass-digitization workstation developed in 1998.