Media 100 Launches New Turnkey Systems On Win2K
Edited by Charlie White
 
iFinish 4 PowerGrade Systems Provide Customized, Interactive Streaming Media, DVD Creation And Broadcast Design

MARLBORO, MA (Feb. 13, 2001) -- Media 100 announced today a new series of customized turnkey digital media design and delivery workstations for streaming media, DVD production and broadcast design on the Windows 2000 platform -- iFinish 4 PowerGrade.

Based on Media 100's recently announced iFinish 4 and built on the Compaq Professional Workstation and DeskPro series, iFinish 4 PowerGrade systems are highly customized, application specific digital media workstations. The series includes the iFinish 4 PowerGrade DV Edition, Streaming Edition, DVD Edition and Broadcast Edition, and is designed to provide out-of-the-box digital media design and delivery capabilities for streaming media, DVD production and broadcast design capabilities.

iFinish 4 PowerGrade Series: Digital Media Design and Delivery
The iFinish 4 PowerGrade series brings new digital media design capabilities to the corporate marketplace, empowering in-house web designers, marketing communications and creative professionals to develop high-quality interactive digital media content on the Windows 2000 platform. With iFinish 4 PowerGrade, web designers, DVD producers and broadcast professionals can create streaming media content with which viewers can directly interact.

For streaming media production, the iFinish 4 PowerGrade incorporates interactive streaming media technology called EventStream, enabling web designers to embed interactive instructions directly into streaming media programs and to trigger graphics, Flash animations and Java applications -- all synchronized with the streaming video on the web site. This technology is enabling the creation of interactive online advertising and e-commerce, training videos in which viewers can interact with video content, and is also enabling the delivery of internal corporate communiques across disparate regional offices.

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

  • Create interactive hot spots within video streams
  • Generate synchronized web events
  • 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
  • Create MPEG 2 I-Frame formatted content for high quality digital media archiving (DVD Edition)

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

  • Use 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 PowerGrade 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 pictures and effects for broadcast-quality design

Tailored, Customized Solutions for High-Value Applications
Media 100 provides a variety of interactive products for the Internet, DVD and broadcast markets:

iFinish 4 PowerGrade DV

  • Creates high-quality DV acquisition and creates content for tape, DV or Internet streaming
  • Software includes iFinish 4, Inscriber Titlemotion, Cleaner 5
  • CPU: Compaq DeskPro WN (AP550 also available)
  • OS: Windows 2000 Professional
  • System Disk Size and Type: 20 GB Ultra ATA
  • Memory: 512 MB SDRAM
  • AGP Graphics card: nVidia TNT2 Pro 16 MB
  • I/O: DV, S-video, Composite iFinish 4 PowerGrade Streaming Edition
  • Creates interactive digital media leveraging Cleaner 5
  • Software includes iFinish 4, Inscriber Titlemotion, Cleaner 5, Boris FX
  • CPU: Compaq DeskPro EN (AP550 also available)
  • OS: Windows 2000 Professional
  • System Disk Size and Type: 20 GB Ultra ATA
  • Memory: 512 MB SDRAM
  • AGP Graphics card nVidia TNT2 Pro 16 MB
  • I/O: DV, S-video Composite Component

iFinish 4 PowerGrade DVD Edition

  • Creates DVD output with MPEG 2 output and integrated editing/encoding environment for the DVD professional
  • Software includes iFinish 4, Inscriber Titlemotion, Cleaner 5, Boris FX, VideoSpiceRack Pro, DVDit! PE
  • CPU: Compaq AP550 - OS: Windows 2000 Professional
  • Memory: 512 MB - CD/DVD and CD-RW
  • AGP Graphics card: Dual Head Matrox Millennium G450
  • I/O: DV, S-video, Composite, Component
  • Includes: RealTime MPEG Pro and RealTime FX Options

iFinish 4 PowerGrade Broadcast Edition

  • Creates broadcast-quality content for DV, DVD and Internet and allows for unlimited layers through seamless integration with BorixFX
  • Software includes iFinish 4, Inscriber Titlemotion, Cleaner 5, Boris FX, VideoSpiceRack Pro
  • CPU: Compaq AP550
  • OS: Windows 2000 Professional
  • Options include DV, RealTimeFX Option, SDI Option

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

  • iFinish 4 PowerGrade DV: $5,995
  • iFinish 4 PowerGrade Streaming Edition: $8,995
  • iFinish 4 PoweGrade DVD Edition: $16,995
  • iFinish 4 PowerGrade Broadcast Edition: $18,995

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

About Media 100
Media 100 Inc. (Nasdaq:MDEA) develops streaming media software, systems and services that simplify the creation and delivery of video on the Internet, DVD and CD-ROM.

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