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Media 100 Partners With Sonic Solutions To Deliver DVDit!SE For iFinish
Partnership Adds DVD Authoring To Streaming Media Production Of iFinish
Sonic Solutions and Media 100 Inc. (Nasdaq: MDEA) today announced the availability of DVDit!SEô for iFinishô. iFinish is Media 100's new family of streaming media production systems for Windows NTÆ that enables Web site designers and video producers to create high-quality video for the Internet, CDROM, and DVD-ROM as well as traditional broadcast formats like Betacam and digital D1 tape. DVDit!SE for iFinish is a Media 100-specific version of DVDit!, the new DVD authoring tool for the Windows platform from Sonic Solutions, the industry leader in DVD solutions. iFinish customers who purchase the new iFinish RealTimeMPEG Optionô will receive DVDit!SE for iFinish at no additional cost. With DVDit!SE for iFinish, users can now create complex interactive content on their PC and publish it on DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and CD-R. Combining an easy-to-use user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD formatting technology, DVDit!SE and iFinish provide customers with a turnkey solution for creating high-quality video and highly interactive DVDs - all in one system. Designed to work directly with MPEG-2 video created with iFinish's RealTimeMPEG Option(TM), DVDit!SE allows producers to create interactive DVD titles with multiple menus linking to motion video, slide shows or other graphic content. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, building DVD titles is as simple as selecting a menu background and moving MPEG-2 video files onto it to create interactive links. DVDit!SE automatically builds buttons and interactivity, transcodes still graphics or AVI files to MPEG-2, and formats content for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or DVD-equipped PCs. ""DVD is fast becoming ubiquitous as the number of set-top DVD-Video and PC-based DVD-ROM units continues to grow at the fastest rate of any video device in history,"" said John Molinari, chief executive officer of Media 100. ""The ability to display full-screen, high-resolution video on a PC monitor is driving the use of DVD-ROM for everything from training to marketing to e-commerce. This explosive growth is creating a new market for integrated video production and high-quality DVD authoring. We partnered with Sonic Solutions to produce a feature-rich version of DVDit! for Media 100 that would allow our customers to exploit the richness of the DVD format."" ""Customers interested in producing video for DVD-ROM want a video production environment that is tightly integrated with a robust, yet easy to use DVD authoring package,"" said Mary Sauer, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sonic Solutions. ""DVDit!SE for iFinish adds high-quality DVD authoring to the streaming media production capabilities of iFinish, delivering a complete solution for today's new media content creators."" Feature-rich DVDit!SE includes: Interactive DVD Authoring Support - Multiple nested menus - First play creation - Slide show creation - Real-time proofing Graphics Support - Drop shadows, bevels, glow, and emboss of graphical elements - AdobeÆ PhotoshopÆ file support with multiple layers - TGA, BMP, TIF file support Audio Support - WAV, MP3, MPEG-1 layer II audio file support Output Support - DVDit!SE supports direct writing to DVD-R and CD-R devices. DVD formatting includes UDF and ISO-9660 file support with Joliet extensions. - Each DVDit! SE project can be exported as a Sonic AuthorScriptô (for compatibility with higher end Mac-based DVD Creator or DVD Fusion systems). About Sonic Solutions Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions designs and manufactures DVD publishing and audio editing systems used by video, audio and multimedia professionals around the world. Sonic's product lines include DVD Creator, the leading system for producing DVD titles; DVD Fusion, the first DVD publishing system designed for non-linear video editors; DVDit!, the easiest way to publish on DVD and the first DVD publishing application for consumers; and SonicStudio HD, the leading digital audio workstation to prepare recorded sound for release on DVD and CD. Sonic is a leader in advancing DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technology and is a full voting-member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format. Sonic Solutions can be contacted on the Web at www.sonic.com. About Media 100 Media 100 Inc. of Marlboro, Massaschuttes, (Nasdaq: MDEA) focuses on the digital content creation and delivery marketplace. Since 1993, its award-winning Media 100Æ and Finishô digital video systems for MacintoshÆ and Windows NTÆ have redefined the digital video industry by making content creation easier, more productive and more affordable for traditional video customers. With over 24,000 systems installed in more than 50 countries worldwide, the company's digital video systems are used in the creation of programs for broadcast and cable television, education, corporate training, animation, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and streaming media for the Internet. For more information, visit www.media100.com. Terran Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media 100, develops and markets Media Cleaner Proô, which is widely recognized as the industry standard application for preparing the highest quality streaming Internet video.