Digital Origin Ships Award-winning EditDV for Windows 95/98/NT; Industry's Fastest Desktop Video Editing System now available on Windows platform.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1999-- Digital Origin (Nasdaq:DODV) is now shipping the Windows version of EditDV, an award-winning editing system that brings professional-level, 100 percent digital non-linear video editing See nonlinear video editing. to the desktop, the company announced today. "Today's announcement is right on track with our promise to deliver a cross-platform suite of DV software solutions for the video and creative professional," said Brady O. Bruce, Digital Origin's vice president of marketing. "EditDV is simply the best -- and fastest --DV non-linear editor available for the Windows user." Digital Origin previewed EditDV for Windows earlier this year at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Designed for new video editors as well as graphics and video professionals ready to move to the DV format, EditDV integrates editing, compositing, animation 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. functions into a single desktop editing environment. Its Accelerated Video Architecture (AVA Ava, in the Bible Ava (ā`və), in the Bible, an unidentified city of Mesopotamia, perhaps the same as Ivah. Its inhabitants are called Avites. ) features AVA III, a high-speed software codec A compression/decompression routine that is implemented in software only without requiring specialized DSP hardware. See codec. specifically optimized for Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). , as demonstrated at Intel's roll-out of the Pentium III processor earlier this year. Using the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 interface and QuickTime, the application provides the latest in DV technology without the high price tags that have traditionally hampered video professionals from diving into all-digital editing. Senior Editor Robert Pergament of Legacy Entertainment is delighted with EditDV for Windows: "We accomplished more in four hours using EditDV for Windows than we did in two weeks of working with our other non-linear editor." "I find EditDV wonderfully smooth and straightforward," says Ian Lewis
Ian Lewis is the Director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service. of the Farnham Film Company, a television production company near London. "We have just begun working with DVCAM Sony's version of the DV (Digital Video) tape technology. DVCAM improves quality by increasing the tape speed from 18.8mm/sec to 28.2mm/sec. It also increases track width from 10 to 15 microns for added reliability. and EditDV is an excellent editor." Audio-visual production specialist Fredrick Edelkamp of EdelKam Video Services praises the "pristine-quality video and easy-to-use editing interface" of EditDV for Windows. He added, "Who could ask for more?" EditDV for Windows 95/98/NT Refers to all 32-bit versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000. It implies Windows ME and Windows 2000. It specifically excludes Windows 3.x. See Windows. comes with a 30-day time-out version of SmartSound, an industry-leading audio software product from Sonic Desktop Software. "This is a real added value for our customers," said Bruce. "EditDV users will find SmartSound to be a powerful and easy way to create professional-quality soundtracks in minutes." Kevin Klingler, president and 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 Sonic Desktop Software agrees. "There are many times when ending a clip with a fade-out simply won't do," he said. "When a clip reaches its climax, the point can be vastly dramatized with a customized soundtrack. The impact is so much more powerful," he said. "With our time-out version of SmartSound, EditDV users will also have access to sample music and sound effects from our digital music library." EditDV was first introduced on the Macintosh platform in 1997. According to Digital Origin, EditDV is wildly popular among videographers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an affordable, professional-quality digital video editor. EditDV has swept industry awards including: New Media's Product of the Year; 4.5 Mice, MacUser UK; 4.5 Stars, MacPower Magazine, Japan; "95"Rating, Digital Chicago; Award of Excellence, DV Magazine; Awesome! Award, New Media; Best Video Tool of 1998, eMedia Weekly; Vanguard Award, Video Systems; and most recently, NAB99 Editor's Choice Award from Digital Editor. Major benefits include: Speed: EditDV's Accelerated Video Architecture (AVA) uses Digital Origin's unique scalable software codec optimized specifically for DV. Because EditDV takes advantage of any performance increases available on host processors, users will find EditDV for Windows two to eight times faster than competitors' products. Digital Origin's AVA III is specially designed to leverage the full power of the Intel Pentium III processor. Flexibility: With DraftDV, a super-fast rendering mode enabled by AVA, editors can quickly process previews and easily communicate preliminary versions to clients. The LiveDV feature provides full-screen interactive preview of all DV footage including clip scrubbing, timeline playback, effects previews and rendering. Professional tools: EditDV gives editors the tools and professional quality previously available only on expensive hardware-based systems. With unlimited video layers, non-square pixel support, cinematic titles, effects, and support for both the 4:3 and 16:9 aspects a special introductory price of $499 for the ions of digital media. Digital Origin is hributors. Digital Origin may also be reached at 650/404-6000 or at www.digitalorigin.com. |
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