MARLBORO, MA (Feb. 1, 2001) -- Media 100 Inc. has announced the immediate availability of its interactive streaming media production system for the Windows 2000 platform, iFinish 4.

iFinish 4 is tapping into the corporate marketing, web design, training and communications market with an interactive streaming media creation solution optimized for corporate networks. As the first streaming media production system for the corporate marketplace, iFinish 4 is enabling a new breed of marketing communications and creative professionals to develop high-quality, interactive streaming media (video and audio) content for delivery on the Web. This technological achievement has a significant impact on the development of corporate intranets, internal and external communications, distance learning and training, as well as e-commerce.

"More and more corporations are turning to streaming media to help them solve key communications challenges, such as distance learning, distance selling, training and even e-commerce. iFinish 4 is the answer to these challenges," said Charlie Mascari, product marketing manager, Media 100 Systems Division. "With iFinish 4, creative professionals on the Windows 2000 platform can, for the first time, create compelling, interactive video for the Internet and DVD that enables a dramatically new and interactive viewing experience for their online viewers."

iFinish 4: Interactive Streaming Creation on the Windows 2000 Platform
iFinish 4 brings new Internet capabilities to the corporate marketplace, empowering in-house web designers, marketing communications and creative professionals to develop very powerful, high-quality interactive streaming media content on the Windows 2000 platform. With iFinish 4, web designers can create streaming media content with which viewers can directly interact. iFinish 4 incorporates sophisticated interactive streaming media technology called EventStream, enabling web designers to embed interactive instructions directly into streaming media programs to trigger highly visual, content-rich capabilities, including graphics, Flash animations and Java applications -- all synchronized with the streaming video on the web site.

Using iFinish 4, web designers can define hot spots, URL flips and chapter marks, allowing viewers to interact with streaming media programs by clicking on objects to gather information, launch related web sites from the video and even purchase items in the streaming video. This technological achievement is enabling the creation of interactive online advertising and e-commerce, rich and dynamic training videos in which viewers can interact with video content, and is also enabling the delivery of internal corporate communiques across disparate regional offices.

iFinish 4 heralds a number of technological advancements in streaming media production, including:

Interactive Content Creation
Leveraging Media 100 EventStream technology, customers can:

• Create interactive hot spots
• Generate synchronized web events
• Author metadata for searching, indexing and archiving video
• Layer graphics separately for higher-quality streaming
• Leverage interactive features of all streaming formats, including Real, Windows Media and QuickTime

Integrated Streaming Media Workflow
A seamless workflow, integrated within one solution enables customers to:

• Capture, edit, author interactivity, encode and publish to the Internet
• Acquire and deliver in any format, including DV, SDI, component, S-video and composite

Visual Effects and Design
Unique strategic relationship with effects innovators, Boris FX and Adobe, empowers Media 100 customers to:

• iFX integration for unlimited layering and compositing
• Design 2D and 3D animated titles and advanced digital video effects
• Finish with real-time broadcast quality color correction tools
• Expand effects with unique Adobe After Effects integration

Professional Editing Environment
iFinish 4 also provides customers with:

• Instant media integration with the industry's best-in-class QuickTime-compatible applications
• DirectEdit technology for fast, intuitive timeline editing
• Ability to process audio with real-time three-band parametric EQ
• Ability to create superior quality pictures and effects for broadcast-quality design

iFinish 4 DVD Edition
In addition to providing the industry's most powerful interactive streaming production platform for creating Internet video, Media 100 also provides the industry's most powerful DVD production workflow from within the same application. The iFinish 4 DVD Edition is the only DVD creation system in the industry that enables users to:

• Capture pristine video from any format
• Edit content into a final program
• Encode and preview to MPEG-2 in real time directly from the editing timeline
• Author a finished title using Sonic Solutions DVDit!

Professional Edition
Users creating content for DVD production can also leverage the flexibility of iFinish 4 to prepare the same dynamic media content for all the major streaming formats for delivery on the Internet. These unique capabilities provide corporate marketing and interactive departments, as well as professional videographers with an ideal multimedia production development hub - all based on the Windows 2000 platform for optimum integration on corporate networks and intranets.

Pricing and Availability
The Media 100 iFinish 4 interactive streaming production systems are available immediately in the following configurations and prices:

iFinish 4 V20DV: $2,995
iFinish 4 V40: $4,995
iFinish 4 V60: $9,995
iFinish 4 V80: $14,995

For more information on how to purchase, as well as for dealer locations, please visit www.media100.com, or call 1-800-773-1770.

About Media 100
Media 100 Inc. develops streaming media software, systems and services that simplify the creation and delivery of video on the Internet, DVD and CD-ROM. For more information, visit media100.com.