Chyron Introduces Enhanced Liberty-tm- Paint and Animation Software.Business Editors MELVILLE, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 1999 Chyron Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CHY CHY Commission for Hydrology (WMO) CHY Cherry-Burrel Corporation ), the world leader in on-air, real-time video graphics for television, today announced the release of Liberty(R) 7.0, the latest version of its Paint and Animation software. Chyron's Liberty 7.0, in both 32-bit and 64-bit color depths, is available for the SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. (R) and Windows NT(R) platforms. In this version of Liberty software, support has been added for operation on Chyron's Duet(TM) hardware, including single-frame and real-time Video Show, and for operation on SGI's Visual NT Workstation, including integrated Video I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output . Support has also been added for SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory interfaces for Liberty NT; Sierra's next-generation HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates DDR (HD1.5+) under IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. (R); Medea's newly introduced VideoRaid RT; and Chyron's Aprisa(R) DDR (on local system, and remotely via Ethernet). "Liberty's added ability to support Chyron's Duet and other Chyron and third-party products further extends the reach of Liberty in the network environment," commented Hayes Stamper, Chyron Product Manager. "Liberty is a proven performer, and the latest enhancements make it an even more essential component of any state-of-the-art graphics suite." Liberty's text creation has been streamlined with new built-in TrueType(R) font conversion (Liberty NT), which provides easy access to a virtually unlimited number of fonts. Keyboard mappings have also been added for Turkish fonts. New graphics features include an Apply Vortex function; an enhanced Shape tool to create a variety of star shapes; Layer menu enhancements; animation of Dither dith·er n. A state of indecisive agitation. intr.v. dith·ered, dith·er·ing, dith·ers To be nervously irresolute in acting or doing. and Color Matrix tools; new 3:2 Pulldown options; Cut and Paste To move an object from one location to another. When the operation is complete, there is nothing left in the original location. It may refer to relocating files from one folder to another or to relocating selected text or images from one document to another. of Clipboard images with Alpha (Liberty NT); Support for Photoshop(R) plug-ins within Liberty NT; and configurable Aspect Ratio Correction for the canvas display. In addition, audio files can now be input directly to the animation timeline. File management capability has been expanded with File Manager enhancements; a modified Save button to save TIFF files by default; the ability to save compressed TIFF files (Packbits and LZW); a new menu for speed control of preview files under IRIX; and improved file size, date, and file type information displayed when browsing Chyron iNFiNiT!(R) family systems running version 11.00 software. Serving the television industry for three decades, Chyron Corporation has established itself as a leading innovator in the development of television graphics and distribution systems, including products to meet the demands of digital and high-definition television. Chyron and Pro-Bel provide a broad range of leading-edge hardware and software products, including paint and animation systems, character generators, signal distribution systems, master control switchers, broadcast automation and media management. For more information about Chyron and Pro-Bel products and services, please visit the company website at www.chyron.com or contact Chyron Corporation, 5 Hub Drive, Melville, NY 11747, Tel: +1 631 845 3855, Fax: +1 631 845 3867; E-mail: info@chyron.com. Certain of the statements contained in this press release may be deemed forward-looking statements. Such statements, and other matters addressed in this press release, involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements and matters are the risks and other factors detailed, from time to time, in the Company's reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, the Company's Annual Reports on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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