ADS Technologies Announces Professional DV Editing Solution for Less Than $500; Pyro Pro DV Features Advanced Software Suite for Multitrack DV Editing, Animation and Effects.Business Editors & Multimedia Writers CeBIT 2000 HANOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2000 ADS Technologies Inc. today announced Pyro py·ro n. pl. py·ros Slang A person who has a compulsion to set fires; a pyromaniac. Pro DV, a complete native DV nonlinear editing solution for professional videographers and pro-consumers. At the competitive suggested retail price of $499, Pyro Pro DV features digital video capture, editing, 2-D and 3-D modeling, animation and video overlay effects, titling, and custom music creation. Pyro Pro DV is a complete digital video production system that includes Pyro 1394 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). three-port host card for 400 Mbit/sec data throughput for lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. , broadcast-quality digital video. Pyro Pro DV features a content-creation software suite that rivals high-end DV solutions currently available on the market. Pyro Pro DV includes: Ulead MediaStudio Pro Ulead MediaStudio Pro (MSP) is a real-time, timeline based prosumer level non-linear video editing software by Ulead Systems. It is a suite of 5 digital video and audio applications, including: Video Capture, Video Paint, CG Infinity, Audio Editor 6.0, Cool 3D, Hash Animation Master 2000, Sound Forge XP 4.5, Sonic Foundry ACID Style 2.0, Boris FX Ltd., Pixelan Software's SpiceMaster Lite, and DV Suite. "We are excited to offer such a powerful, dynamic and robust DV editing package at such a remarkable value," said ADS Technologies President Mike McCoy. "Now the tools to create professional digital video productions are accessible to the video producer and pro-consumer alike. They can transform what they envision into reality with stunning visual elements such as scenes with 3-D animated character added in and other advanced special effects." "We're extremely pleased to participate in the Pyro Pro DV bundle," said Travis White, video product manager for Ulead Systems Inc. "ADS has thought of everything -- from 2-D video capture and editing to 3-D effects and customized music creation. This product has it all!" About Pyro Pro DV The latest addition to the popular Pyro 1394/FireWire product line from ADS Technologies, Pyro Pro DV was designed as an affordable yet powerful professional digital video production system complete with hardware and software suite for DV capture, editing, animation and video overlay capabilities and special effects. Pyro Pro DV includes:
-- PYRO 1394 PCI three-port host card;
-- 6-foot 6-pin to 4-pin DV editing cable;
-- Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6.0 -- Video Capture, Video Editor, Audio
Editor, Video Paint, CGI Infinity, Cool 3D;
-- DV Suite -- DVMovie and DVPhoto Capture for NT 4.0;
-- Pixelan-SpiceMaster Lite with 50 Spices from Video Spice Rack
Pro;
-- Boris FX 4.0 Ltd. -- Compositing and special-effects software;
-- Hash's Animation Master 2000 -- True 3-D character creation and
animation software;
-- Acid Style 2.0 -- Loop-based music production software;
-- Sound Forge XP 4.5 -- Digital audio editing and processing tool.
Pyro Pro DV is supported by Windows 98, Windows 98 SE See Windows Second Edition. , Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Video for Windows-based applications, and Adobe Premiere 5.2 and above. System Requirements Intel Celeron 400MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. or AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. K6-2-400MHz or above; Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, or Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000; 64 MB of RAM and sound card; AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. video card or PCI with 4 MB of RAM; CD-ROM Drive; 200 MB hard disk space for capture/editing applications; 4 GB hard disk space (20 minutes of raw DV footage). Availability and Cost Pyro Pro DV suggested retail price is $499. Available March 2000. About ADS Technologies ADS Technologies brings the cutting-edge technology of multimedia, upgrade, network and presentation solutions to the personal-computer marketplace. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. manufactures USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. and 1394 hardware, and scan converters for both PCs and Macs. For more information or graphics, contact Christina Cu at 800/888-5244 or Christina@adstech.com or visit the ADS Technologies Web site at http://www.adstech.com. |
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