MARGI Systems Announces DVPublish-To-Goô

DVPublish To Include Margi 1394-To-Go, MGI Software VideoWave III SEô And Sonic Solutions DvdIt! LETxôCreate DVD Presentations With Your Digital Camcorder And Laptop

18-May-00

MARGI Systems announced today the launch of DVPublish-to-Goô, the first user-friendly and affordable tool that mobile professionals can use to create compelling presentations incorporating DVD/MPEG2 video, CD-quality sound, and interactive graphics all on a laptop PC. Presentations created with DVPublish-to-Go can be recorded directly to the notebook PC's hard disk, a CD-R or a DVD-R. MARGI DVPublish-to-Go consists of the MARGI 1394-to-Go PCMCIA CardBus card, MGI VideoWave III SEô, and Sonic Solutions DVDIt! LETxô. Using a hardware decoder card, such as the MARGI DVD-to-GoÆ card, or a software DVD decoder, a presentation recorded on CD-R can be played back on a PC's CD-ROM drive. When the presentation is recorded on a DVD-R, the presentation can be played back using a laptop with DVD-ROM using a DVD decoder, or a home DVD-Video player. In either case, the presentation is at the full DVD format - playing back at 720 x 480 resolution video. A 15-30 minute presentation can be stored on a CD-R at the cost of less than one dollar. In comparison, a traditional multimedia video presentation might cost thousands of dollars to produce. ""We were able to shoot, edit, and create a DVD presentation in one afternoon, and make a successful presentation the next day,"" stated Erik J. Corrigan, President of 12 Centimeter Multimedia Corporation. Applications for DVD media range from corporate and sales presentations, training, documentation, promotions, to personal video album purposes. The creation process includes several easy steps: 1) Capture video with your DV digital camcorder, 2) Import the video into your laptop using the MARGI 1394-to-Go CardBus card and cable using either the Total Captureô application by MARGI, or VideoWave III SE by MGI Software (all items included in the product), 3) Edit the raw captured video adding titles, transitions, and special effects using MGI Video Wave III SE, 4) Author your presentation by creating a title page and table of contents with pushbuttons for each clip using DVDit! LETx from Sonic Solutions 5) Publish the entire presentation in DVD format using the MPEG-2 video transcoder in DVDit! LETx. That's it. Then you can playback the presentation with the appropriate decoder. ""DVPublish-to-Go will revolutionize the creation of corporate presentations,"" said Shrinath Acharya, CEO at MARGI. ""DVPublish-to-Go will bring the power of multimedia to corporate presentations by bringing - video, audio, graphics and interactivity - into a single presentation. The included software is easy to use and far quicker than creating other multimedia presentations."" ""We're very excited to be working with MARGI on the DVPublish-to-Go product,"" said Mark Ely, Director of Product Marketing at Sonic Solutions. ""DVD-to-Go, is the leading hardware-based decoder for DVD playback on notebooks, and combining it with DVDit! revolutionizes the way corporate presentations are produced and displayed."" About DVPublish-To-Go DVPublish-to-Go has a MSRP of $299.00. The product includes: MARGI's 1394-to-Go CardBus Card, Total Capture application by MARGI, VideoWave III SE by MGI Software, DVDit! LETx by Sonic Solutions, and six foot long six to four pin DV camera interface cable. Each box also contains a special upgrade offer to DVDit! SEô for DVPublish-to-Go users. DVPublish-to-Go is distributed by Ingram Micro. About MARGI Systems, Inc. MARGI Systems has developed the broadest and most advanced multimedia product line in the mobile computing industry. MARGI has lead the industry with the first audio and video capture card, the first ZV-port PC card, the first MPEG PC card, the world's top selling DVD PC Card, the first Digital Display PC card, and now the first mobile DVD Authoring product. MARGI's product family, which also includes automotive DVD and high bandwidth products, has received numerous acclaims for performance, reliability and compatibility. MARGI Systems is privately held and based in Fremont. For more information about MARGI Systems and its products, call 510 657 4435, or visit MARGI's Web site at www.margi.com. About MGI Software, Inc. MGI (www.mgisoft.com) is a pioneer and established market leader in e-commerce imaging and digital video. Its early focus on delivering imaging and video technology to the mass market has led to an ever-growing network of partnerships with major consumer electronics manufacturers, computer hardware and software vendors, photo retailers, media companies, and e-businesses. The company's intellectual property spans many aspects of imaging and video, including content creation and editing, content encoding and decoding, Internet distribution systems, Web printing, and interactive viewing. As digital imaging and video become commonplace, it will be MGI technologies that are behind the scenes making it work. With headquarters in Richmond Hill, Ontario and Campbell, California, MGI employs over 250 people with offices in North America, Europe, Pacific Rim, and Japan. MGI Software is publicly traded on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ""MGI."" About Sonic Solutions Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing and interactive, streaming video on the Internet. Sonic DVDit! (http://www.dvdit.com is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at consumers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Streaming DVD is the first interactive technology based on DVD for content distribution over the Internet. Sonic DVD Creator and DVD Fusion are the most widely used systems for professional DVD publishing, and are installed worldwide at major studios, post production facilities and in corporate marketing departments. SonicStudio HD is the leading digital workstation for preparing audio for release on CD and the first for creating content for the new DVD-Audio format. Sonic is also a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

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