Media 100 Announces Availability of Cleaner MPEG Charger

MARLBORO, MA (Mar. 01, 2001) -- Media 100 Inc. today announced the availability of Cleaner MPEG Charger, an MPEG software package for Cleaner 5 users that allows comprehensive control over MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 content creation for DVD, Video CD, CD-ROM and digital broadcasting.

Cleaner MPEG Charger works seamlessly with Cleaner 5, allowing users to create professional-quality MPEG content from all popular video, audio and animation file formats, even Macromedia Flash--with all of the power and ease-of-use of the award-winning Cleaner 5.

Cleaner MPEG Charger supports:

CBR (constant bitrate), single-pass VBR (variable bitrate) and two-pass VBR encoding for best possible
Elementary Program stream creation
All standard MPEG frame rates and frame sizes
NTSC and PAL encoding
Choice of open or closed GOPs (group of pictures)
Custom GOP sizes
User-selectable video buffering verifier sizes
Frame- and field-based encoding
User-selectable sequence header frequency
DirectExport from many popular video editing systems
Support for 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 chromas

Pricing and Availability
Cleaner MPEG Charger is available immediately as an add-on option for Cleaner 5 directly through the Media 100 Software division, and through selected resellers worldwide. Cleaner MPEG Charger is priced at $499.00 U.S. For additional information on, visit media100.com.