Allegiant extends its popular SuperCard Multimedia Studio; SuperCard also picked as authoring tool in high-end Strata bundle.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 1995--Allegiant Technologies Inc. (VSE See DOS/VSE. VSE - Virtual Storage Extended :AGH AGH Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza AGH Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) AGH Alpena General Hospital (Michigan) AGH Helsingborg, Sweden - Angelholm/Helsingborg (Airport Code) ) publishers of SuperCard For the memory card adapter for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, see Game Boy Advance flash cartridges. SuperCard is a high-level development environment that runs on Macintosh computers, under OS 8 and 9, and OS X. , the powerful authoring tool for multimedia and custom applications, Tuesday announced that its newly released SuperCard 2.5 will provide the authoring component in two powerful suites of multimedia production tools. Allegiant al·le·giance n. 1. Loyalty or the obligation of loyalty, as to a nation, sovereign, or cause. See Synonyms at fidelity. 2. The obligations of a vassal to a lord. will extend its highly successful SuperCard Multimedia Studio to bundle Avid's VideoShop 3.0, Gryphon's Morph morph 1 n. An allomorph. [From morpheme.] morph 2 n. 2.5 and Motion Works' SoundMate 1.0 with SuperCard 2.5 to provide a complete suite of media creation and editing tools to complement SuperCard. In addition, SuperCard 2.5 will be included in the STRATA Virtual Studio, a suite of state-of-the-art production tools from Strata, Avid and Allegiant, which was announced separately by Strata Inc. SuperCard Multimedia Studio First launched last fall, the SuperCard Multimedia Studio was the first complete suite of media creation tools packaged with a professional authoring tool for media integration such as SuperCard. The bundle was enormously popular and has become a key part of Allegiant's product line, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Stuart Henigson, Allegiant vice president of marketing. "We pioneered the `multimedia studio suite' concept a year ago, and its success is a testament to the maturing of the multimedia tools market," Henigson said. "Customers entering this market today increasingly want to buy solutions, not just components. By selecting only top-of-the-line tools, Allegiant -- and Strata with its new bundle -- are delivering those solutions without compromising functionality or performance." The combined suggested retail prices of the products in the SuperCard Multimedia Studio is more than $1,300; the bundle has a suggested retail price of $895 and is expected to sell for less than $600. The bundle is available through Allegiant's distribution channels, mail order, and educational and corporate resellers. SuperCard 2.5 and the STRATA Virtual Studio An even broader multimedia tool suite is being offered by Strata with its Virtual Studio -- which bundles Strata's StudioPro, the leading professional 3-D modeling and rendering See render. (graphics, text) rendering - The conversion of a high-level object-based description into a graphical image for display. For example, ray-tracing takes a mathematical model of a three-dimensional object or scene and converts it into a bitmap image. package, with SuperCard, Strata's MediaPaint, and Avid's VideoShop, Elastic elastic Of or relating to the demand for a good or service when the quantity purchased varies significantly in response to price changes in the good or service. Reality and Transjammer. The bundled products have suggested retail prices of more than $4,000. The bundle carries a suggested retail price of $1,995 and is expected to sell for less and $1,400. The Virtual Studio bundle will first be available at Macworld Boston, beginning Tuesday. For more information, contact Strata at 801/628-5218. In other recent releases, Allegiant announced that it has shipped version 2.5 of SuperCard; rolled out the new "SuperCard Software Technology" brand identification program; and began offering a competitive upgrade for Macromedia Director and Authorware users to SuperCard 2.5. With version 2.5, SuperCard now supports display of 24-bit color graphics The ability to display graphic images in colors. and offers numerous other enhancements to its core authoring capabilities, including a new transition engine and several new transitions, an unparalleled level of script-based control over QuickTime movies, and new application development features such as a customizable script hierarchy and multiple menu sets, and enhanced memory management options. About Allegiant Allegiant Technologies develops and markets innovative Multimedia, Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and Application Development software that empowers people to interactively educate, entertain, present, and manage information. Allegiant was founded in 1994 when a group of former Aldus Corp. management and senior engineers joined forces with an experienced venture financing group to acquire the SuperCard product and its associated technology from Aldus and build a company with the objective of becoming the leading vendor of authoring tools for Macintosh and Windows-based personal computers. CONTACT: Allegiant Technologies Inc., San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Stuart Henigson, 619/587-0500, ext. 101 Kevin LaRue, 619/587-0500, ext. 106 Fax: 619/587-1314 Email: info@allegiant.com Internet Home Page: www.allegiant.com |
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