CyberLink Ships PowerDirector 2.0 Pro and Standard Offering Total Digital Video Solution; Capture, Edit, Author or Burn for Easy Creation of Home Movies and Photo Slideshows on CDs and DVDs.Business Editors & High Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2002 CyberLink Corp., a leading software developer of digital video entertainment applications and e-Training solutions, today proudly ushers in its latest software advancements with the launch of PowerDirector 2.0 Pro and Standard. PowerDirector 2.0 Pro not only improves upon the previous version's award-winning video capture and editing capabilities, but through the new easy-to-use wizard-style authoring and burning guide, now also offers users the ability to make custom movies and photo slideshows on discs playable from any consumer DVD player A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. . The Pro edition of PowerDirector 2.0 offers a newly enhanced, advanced video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. engine, slick 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. and an improved, simple-to-use 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. interface allowing users of any level to create compelling videos quickly and easily. PowerDirector can capture video from DV and analog sources, perform high-quality digital file conversion and output finished movie productions into the latest file formats or back to DV tape. Plus, with a new automatic scene detection feature and the ability to instantly create movie chapters, PowerDirector can transform digital images and video footage from camcorders into polished multimedia slideshows and professional-looking home movies on CDs and DVDs. "PowerDirector 2.0 Pro offers a simple step-by-step process to assemble video clips on the PC, transform them into a compelling movie production, and then quickly output the final creation in formats suited for sharing on CDs and DVDs," says Alice H. Chang, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CyberLink Corporation. "Consumers now have a complete, turnkey solution for creating movies on CDs and DVDs whereby previously users needed advanced skills and multiple software applications. Users no longer have to deal with the complexity of capturing, editing, authoring and burning with PowerDirector 2.0 Pro, which handles all of these jobs to make working with digital video a painless, and entertaining process." PowerDirector 2.0 Pro and Standard editions are two unique packages with different benefits for video novices and movie making enthusiasts alike. The Pro version includes the complete set of video capture and editing tools from PowerDirector 2.0, plus a unique Disc Wizard that eliminates the complexity of authoring and burning DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. videos. Now adding an interactive DVD menu, creating chapters and adding photo slideshows is a simple affair. Users can even add background audio and apply templates to interactive menus that allow viewers to jump to chapters created on movie productions outputted in DVD, VideoCD or Super Video CD formats. Furthermore PowerDirector's disc making functions fully support CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD+RW (DVD+Read Write) A rewritable (re-recordable) DVD disc for both movies and data from the DVD+RW Alliance. DVD+RW media can be read on DVD-Video players and computer DVD-ROM drives. disc media. For users without Recordable-DVD/CD drives, the Standard edition packages all of the flexible video capture and editing functions of PowerDirector 2.0, but without the Disc Making Wizard providing authoring and burning capabilities. PowerDirector 2.0 offers an advanced level of speed and simplicity in video editing software Video editing software is application software which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. It usually includes the ability to import and export video, cut and paste sections of a video clip, and add special effects and transitions; and it sometimes includes the with SVRT SVRT Smart Video Rendering Technology (Smart Video Rendering Technology) and InstantMPEG technologies. Additionally this new version is able to encode video in all the major file formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV (Windows Media Video) A family of digital video compression technologies from Microsoft based on MPEG-4. Version 9 of the WMV codec was released to the SMPTE organization and became the SMPTE 421M standard, otherwise known as VC-1 (see VC-1). , Windows 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. , DV-AVI, DVD/SVCD/VCD), perform high-quality video transfer and output finished video productions with minimal CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. power requirements. Versions and Availability PowerDirector 2.0 will be available in retail and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and bundled versions in February 2002. For up-to-date official information on PowerDirector 2.0 please visit the CyberLink Web site at: http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/products/pdirector_versions.jsp PowerDirector 2.0 Standard and PowerDirector 2.0 Pro are members of the PowerDirector series. This series currently consists of the following retail versions: -- PowerDirector 2.0 Pro US$119.95 Download purchase/ US$124.95 Retail box purchase -- PowerDirector 2.0 Standard US$79.95 Download purchase -- DVD Creation Pack for PowerDirector 2.0 (PowerDirector 2.0 Standard add-on pack w/ DVD/CD Disc Wizard) US$49.95 Download purchase About CyberLink Corp. Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced digital video and audio software products to market. The products are categorized into two major lines: Digital Video Entertainment and E-Training Solutions. Digital Video Entertainment products offer complete digital video entertainment solutions from video capture, edit, author, burn and playback capabilities. These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions for turning today's mainstream computers into powerful home theaters and digital video centers. The company's E-Training Solutions offer breakthrough technologies to stream and manage high-quality, media-rich contents over corporate intranets or the Internet. As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability, CyberLink became a public company in October of 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). : 5203). To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and the Asia Pacific region including Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei and its Web site is located at www.goCyberlink.com http://www.gocyberlink.com/. CyberLink programs are available for press evaluation. Please contact Ty Ung or Manal Ma at press@gocyberlink.com or by phone at: +886-2-8667-1298, ext. 301 or 303 for more details. Additional press information is available locally in the USA and Germany through the following contacts: USA Press Contact: Kristen Stonecipher, kristen@sspr.com or by phone +1-888-275-5878, ext. 28. Germany Press Contact: Cornelie Elsaesser, c.elsaesser@konzept-pr.de or by phone +49-821-34 300-20. All companies and product names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the sole property of their respective owners. Copyright(c)2002 CyberLink Corp. All rights reserved. |
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