| ACID Style 2.0 and SIREN XPress 2.0 Bundled with the Canopus DVRexRT Professional and DVStorm Digital Video Non-Linear Editing Capture Cards |
MADISON,
WI (Dec. 4, 2000) -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. announced that it has
entered into a OEM partnership with Canopus Corporation, manufacturer of
non-linear video editing products for videographers. Sonic Foundry is providing versions of its ACID Style 2.0 music creation software and its SIREN Jukebox XPress 2.0 personal music manager, to be bundled with the new Canopus DVRexRT Professional and DVStorm NLE solutions. ACID Style will be shipped with a 100 multi-genre loop library and it supports English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. Users will be able to incorporate their own musical creations made with ACID Style into their video. SIREN gives users a tool to download music and content from the Internet and to digitize music from their own personal music library to add into their videos.
The DVRexRT Professional is a full-featured, professional-level NLE that boasts extensive real-time capabilities, delivering the features required by video professionals to capture and blend DV and high-end analog footage. With its component video I/O, balanced audio I/O and RS-422 analog deck control, DVRexRT Professional allows capture of professional-level analog material without compromising quality. DVRexRT Professional includes real-time editing, MPEG encoding, DVD authoring, soundtrack creation and Internet streaming tools to provide video editors with a complete NLE solution in one package.
DVStorm is a real-time NLE that combines an extensive high performance feature set with stability and reliability to deliver render-free, real-time digital video editing, DV and analog (S-Video and Composite video) input/output, and MPEG output for DVD and Web streaming. DVStorm features over 24 real-time filters, including color correction, mosaic, emboss, slow motion, picture-in-picture, chroma key, luma key and chrominance, and 15 transitions, including wipes, dissolves, slides, page curls and stretch.
About Canopus Corporation
Based in San Jose, Calif., Canopus Corporation manufactures award-winning, non-linear video editing products for videographers. Canopus' DV editing, MPEG-2 encoding and 3D DVE products combine innovative hardware and software designs to set new standards. Canopus Corporation's parent company, Canopus Co., Ltd., with headquarters in Kobe, is Japan's largest maker of video editing and graphics products. For more information contact Canopus at (408) 954-4500 or visit their web site at http://www.justedit.com/.
About Sonic Foundry
Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services and systems. Sonic Foundry's award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications, music, video, and broadcast solutions, and digital content creation.
Sonic Foundry's digital audio and video tools include the award-winning ACID, Sound Forge, Vegas Audio, Vegas Video, VideoFactory, Stream Anywhere, SIREN Jukebox, Viscosity, and a variety of compatible music loop libraries and DirectX Audio Plug-Ins. For specific product descriptions, please reference the "products" section of the Sonic Foundry Web site at http://www.sonicfoundry.com/.
Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division is the pre-eminent supplier of digitization, management, and delivery solutions for audio and video content owners. Serving as the link between content and customers, the Company provides proven, comprehensive processes that enable content delivery to new and emerging distribution channels. The five key components that make up these solutions include: Media Distribution Fulfillment, Enterprise Content Management, Turnkey Systems, Consulting Services, and Encoding.
