Canon Introduces Video Editing Software for the Masses; Canon Video Home Edition Provides Digital Video Editing Power With a Simple Interface.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 Editor's Summary: -- Canon Video Home Edition is a consumer video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. product -- Features include text animation, transitions, multiple sound channels and title card creation -- Windows and Macintosh compatible -- Estimated street price is $49.95 Canon Software Publishing (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ), a division of Canon Computer Systems Inc., Monday announced its first video-editing software product -- Canon Video Home Edition. This new video-editing program gives Windows and Macintosh computer users the ability to edit and create new videos using existing video clips, audio files, image files, text and transitions. A clean interface with intuitive storyboards and drag-and-drop simplicity makes Canon Video Home Edition a solid choice for entry-level digital video editing. "As the digital video-editing field grows rapidly, Canon is pleased to be among the first to offer a home video-editing solution that is affordable and simple," said Christopher Dorn, executive director and general manager of CSP. "Video products are a natural extension of Canon's rich photography heritage." Digital video is a powerful medium to use when honoring special people, celebrating special events and preserving special moments in time. People can produce videos to share memories with family and friends. Children's sports teams can assemble season highlights into a video gift for each athlete. The uses of digital video are only limited by the producer's imagination. Editing Video The Album Manager in Canon Video Home Edition helps users organize video clips, audio files, photos and other still images by placing them in an organized portfolio. Asset management in Canon Video is flexible; any album can contain any type of multimedia file making it simple to organize by subject matter. Items may be sorted by name, type, date or size for easy reference and may be previewed within the Album Manager as well. Users simply drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. files from the Album Manager into the program's storyboard A sequence of images and annotations for a cartoon, animation or video. Storyboards are previews of the final version and typically contain mockups rather than final art and images. Before computers, storyboards were drawn with pen and ink on lightweight cardboard. in the desired sequence to create a movie. Video authors can toggle To alternate back and forth between two states. toggle - To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from "toggle switches", such as standard light switches, though the word "toggle" actually refers to back and forth between the Album Manager-storyboard screen and the movie-editing screen making it simple to edit components of the final movie at any time during the creation process. Easy-to-use editing tools let video creators decide where to start and end video clips as well as add text or adjust the contrast and saturation of individual images and backgrounds. Text animation is equally easy to adjust with a variety of styles and speeds to help users gain the right effect for the video. Title cards, captions and credits are easy to create using the text effects in Canon Video. Users may choose the font and color along with the animation of a text effect. Words may zoom in, rotate, drop down, slide in or fade in and out. Users have the control to specify the duration of the text effect and can place the text directly into still images, movie files or backgrounds. Canon Video also provides a variety of transition effects to place between scenes including wipe and sweep effects, dissolve and fade effects, zoom effects, and special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. such as ripple, fire and page peel. Individual effects or transition may be previewed before compiling the final video product. Canon Video includes two sound channels to bring added life to projects. Authors can use one track to play music and the second track for narration and sound effects sound effects Noun, pl sounds artificially produced to make a play, esp. a radio play, more realistic sound effects npl → efectos mpl sonoros . Saving Video Completed videos are an easy way to share memories with family and friends; businesses can use videos to provide training for employees or product information to customers. Canon Video saves completed projects as AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. , MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). or QuickTime files. Canon Video also creates self-executable files with an attached mini-player so audiences will not need any special viewer to watch the finished video. Canon Video includes one-button access to the user's e-mail program Software in the user's computer that can access the mail servers in a local or remote network. Also known as an "e-mail client," "mail client," "mail program," and "mail reader," it provides the ability to send and receive e-mail messages and file attachments. that will attach a self-executable video to a message. Canon Video even creates animated GIF A moving picture in GIF format, which is made up of a series of frames. When displayed, they provide an animated sequence that cycles over and over without stopping. Although popular on the Web, animated GIFs are larger than single-frame GIFs and take longer to download. files to put on the Web. Acquiring Video Canon Video acquires images directly from digital cameras, scanners or any other TWAIN-compliant device. The software also works with video cameras, capture devices and images stored on the computer's hard drive, a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). or other removable mediums. New images can be quickly catalogued in the Album Manager. Pricing & Availability Canon Video Home Edition will be available in September 2000 through major retail chains, e-tail sites and from www.software.canon.com for $49.95 MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) (a). Customers may also purchase the software by calling 800/385-2155. System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Minimum system requirements for running Canon Video Home Edition include an IBM-compatible PC with a Pentium 166 MHz (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. processor or faster, Windows 95, 98, 2000, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows Millennium Edition See Windows ME. (operating system) Windows Millennium Edition - (Windows ME) An update of Microsoft Windows 98, released in 2000. ME included updates of packaged software and new software such as Windows Media Player 7, Windows Movie Maker. operating system; 64 MB of RAM; 50 MB of free hard disk space; and a display supporting 16 bit color or better. For Macintosh users, the minimum system requirements for Canon Video Home Edition include a Power Macintosh or Macintosh-compatible Power PC; Macintosh System 8.6 or higher; 64 MB of RAM; 50 MB of hard disk space; and a display supporting 16 bit color or better. Customer Service and Customer Technical Support Canon Software Publishing offers a full range of customer technical support options(b): e-mail and Web site (FAQs) via the CSP Web site at www.software.canon.com. For 24 hour, seven day-a-week technical support, a customer can call 757/413-2855 for fax-back support or to talk with a customer care technician (8 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday-Friday, ET). Regular customer support is free for the first 30 days. After 30 days, paid support is available. About Canon Software Publishing Canon Software Publishing (CSP) is a division of Canon Computer Systems, which is a subsidiary of both Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Lake Success, N.Y.) and Canon Inc. (Tokyo). The division, with headquarters in Costa Mesa, was founded in 1998 to develop, publish and distribute computer software primarily in North and South America. CSP publishes titles from both independent third-party developers and associated Canon companies. Canon is recognized as the world's leading imaging technology company, a leader in printer technology and a top worldwide patent holder. As a global technology leader, Canon achieved $25 billion in worldwide sales in 1999. (a) Dealer price may vary and is subject to change at any time. Product specifications and features subject to change without notice. (b) Support program specifics subject to change without notice. Note to Editors: Canon is a registered trademark of Canon Inc. All other product and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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