Virtual Katy Connect is a collaboration and workflow product for the sound effects industry.

Sound engineers working on a movie tend to be widely distributed, often in different cities or companies. VKC is a project management tool that is geared specifically towards the audio aspect of movie-making.

In VKC, audio projects can be set up by senior sound staff, and people allocated to the various different aspects of the project.

VKC is revolutionary in that - as well as being a full project management tool - it acts as a central repository for all the audio assets in a project. This means that sound engineers can now go online and submit their work their peers and supervisors through the web, instead of the traditional practice of copying files to a hard drive and couriering that to another sound department in another city.

Virtual Katy has two parts - an AJAX web 2.0 website and an optional native client. The Website allows a supervisor to track the progress of a project, quality control the work and perform certain version control functions. The native client can be run on a sound engineers Windows or Macintosh machine, and takes care of efficiently uploading and downloading the files the engineer is working on, without wasting time or bandwidth.