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NEWS
•MARCH
2, 2001
Media 100 Ships MPEG Charger, Audio:Box, CineStream
New tools target streaming audio and video
by
David Nagel
Executive Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com
Media 100 has started shipping three new Mac products targeted toward
streaming media professionals in audio and video—CineStream, MPEG Charger
and Audio:Box. Audio:Box, the company's new high-end audio encoding hardware/software
suite, uses multiple G4s and PowerFile C200 CD/DVD jukeboxes, along with
Cleaner 5 and a whole lot of AppleScripting, to pull audio files and metadata
off CDs and DVDs and publish them to a streaming server. We have a separate
story (CLICK
HERE), including a QuickTime interview with Media 100's Jim Baker
and footage of the new product.
CineStream
CineStream is a software-based interactive streaming media authoring suite
for Web developers and professional content creators. CineStream is the
latest release of EditDV, a video editing application acquired from Digital
Origin.
Media 100 CineStream uses several streaming media technologies developed
by Media 100 that enable users to capture video content directly from
digital video (DV) sources, edit video content, author interactive elements
directly into the editing timeline and encode the final product in all
major streaming media formats, including Windows Media, RealSystems, QuickTime
and MPEG-1.
Included in the release of CineStream is EventStream, a technology Media
100 introduced last year in its high-end Media 100 i system and later
adopted in Cleaner 5, the company's encoding and compression package.
EventStream enables Web designers to embed interactive instructions directly
into streaming media programs, including graphics, Flash animations and
Java applications.
CineStream also includes a number of other features, including:
- "Pan and Scan" capability for eliminating unwanted portions of video
images
- Pan, zoom and rotate with true perspective
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- Picture in picture with crop
- Multiple composition support
- On the fly, editable submaster creation
- Chroma and Luma keyers
- Unlimited titles with backgrounds and shadows, independent control
of gradient colors and transparency, rotation and fill-with-video effects
- Create, save and reuse effects and transitions
- Unlimited keyframes of any parameter
- Unlimited video and effects layers
- 2D, 3D and keying effects for video layering
- 200+ SMPTE standard and user-customized transitions.
CineStream requires a Power Mac (604 or higher; OS 8.6 or higher), 128
MB RAM, a CD-ROM drive and an available PCI slot. It costs $499. CineStream
will be available to registered users of EditDV or MotoDV for $149.
MPEG Charger
Media 100 has also started shipping its accelerated MPEG-2 encoding solution
for Cleaner 5—Cleaner MPEG Charger. This adds cross-platform MPEG-2 acceleration
capabilities to Media 100's Cleaner 5 interactive streaming media authoring
system, allowing media encoding professionals to create MPEG-2 content
for DVD, Super Video CD, CD-ROM and digital media broadcasting.
Cleaner 5 MPEG Charger is a software-only MPEG accelerator that also adds
new functionality for creating MPEG files through Cleaner. This includes
variable bit rate encoding, customization of all aspects of the MPEG's
settings and the ability to batch encode files. It's also accelerated
for the G4's Velocity Engine.
Cleaner MPEG Charger is available now for $499. A similar tool, MPEG SuperCharger,
which includes an MPEG accelerator board, is also available for $999.
For more information on all three products, visit http://www.media100.com.
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