FOCUS Enhancements Announces New Support for Macintosh Users of FireStore at MacWorld San Francisco 2002.

Business/Technology Editors

Macworld San Francisco 2002

Booth #4051

CAMPBEll, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2002

Revolutionary FireStore product offers upgraded support for the

Mac Platform including QuickTime and OS 10

FOCUS Enhancements, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCSE), a global leader in professional video production and conversion, today announced that at the MacWorld show in San Francisco, they will be demonstrating the popular FireStore, DV direct-to-disk recorder, with enhanced support for Macintosh applications. New to FireStore is QuickTime file format compatibility, which supports applications such as Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere on the Mac platform. FireStore's disk format is also now compatible with OS 10.1. FireStore will be on display January 8-11 in the FOCUS' booth #4051 located in the Special Interest Pavilion of the Apple Digital Media Area, Hall D, during MacWorld Expo.

"Right from the start, we have had tremendous interest and support from the Macintosh editing market," said Matt McEwen, Product Manager for FOCUS Enhancements. "This latest enhancement to FireStore will satisfy requests we have had from Mac based editors to support the QuickTime file format as well as OS 10.1"

FireStore completely eliminates capturing as an extra step from the DV production process. Video editors surveyed spend on average 25 hours a month capturing video. FireStore captures during acquisition to eliminate this unproductive step.

In addition to the Focus Enhancements booth, FireStore will be on display in the Canon booth #906 at MacWorld Expo.

The upgraded Macintosh support for FireStore is expected to be available in February.

FireStore converts any IEEE-1394 (FireWire, i.Link) Hard Disk Drive (or drives) into a high performance digital disk recorder/player. It allows video production professionals to record directly to disk from a DV based camcorder, VTR or mixer without the need for a computer. Two identical copies of the footage can be recorded simultaneously - to disk and to the camcorder's tape- providing security and confidence to the videographer. DV streams are recorded to disk as computer ready files that can be imported and used immediately by most DV based non-linear editing systems, eliminating the time consuming process of capturing. FireStore is compatible with FireWire disk drives that have FAT 32 disk volumes, a file format supported by Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows ME and Mac OS 9 operating systems.

FireStore will slave to most FireWire based DV camcorders to allow its record and record pause modes to be triggered by the press of the camcorders Record Start/Stop button. Upon each Record Start, FireStore creates a new clip on the disk drive. FireStore also features many other VTR-like functions with the versatility of a digital video disk recorder. Operational functions include play, reverse play, stop, multi-speed fast forward and rewind, single frame forward and backward, next track/previous track and still record. Utility features include delete track, format disk and check disk. FireStore will also record 2-ch (16-bit, 48kHz) or 4-ch (12-bit, 32kHz) embedded DV audio. Input and output of 25Mb/s DV sources is through a 4-pin IEEE-1394 connector while the connection between FireStore and the hard disk drive(s) is with a single 6-pin 1394 cable. To edit video clips, users can either cable their FireWire disk drive directly to their computer (via a standard OHCI compliant IEEE-1394 card) or alternatively use the convenient bypass mode, which allows the hard disk drive to mount to the computer through FireStore.

Videonics FireStore is available now through the FOCUS Enhancements worldwide reseller and distributor network for a US SRP of $995.00.

About FOCUS Enhancements, Inc.

FOCUS Enhancements, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCSE) and Videonics, Inc. (previously NASDAQ: VDNX), both formerly independent public companies, completed a merger on January 16, 2001. The merged company, operating under the FOCUS Enhancements name, is a leading designer of world-class solutions in advanced, proprietary video scan conversion ASICs, and affordable, high quality, digital-video conversion and video production equipment. Semiconductor products include the FS400, and FS450 series ASICs for scaling, scan conversion, Internet TV and interactive TV applications. Commercial products for video presentation include desktop PC-to-TV scan converters, scalers, and line quadruplers. Video production products include application controllers, edit controllers, mixers, and character and effects generators. The company's products and technologies are sold globally through Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and resellers to the broadcast, education, cable, business, industrial, presentation, internet, gaming, home video production and home theater markets. FOCUS Enhancements stock is traded on the NASDAQ SmallCap Market under the symbol FCSE. More information on FOCUS Enhancements may be obtained from the company's SEC filings, or by visiting the FOCUS Enhancements home page at http://www.FOCUSinfo.com.

Statements about future results made in the above referenced (press release/presentation/conference call) constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations and the current economic environment. The Company cautions that these statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Such projections are based upon many estimates and are inherently subject to significant economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of management of FOCUS. Important assumptions and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are specified in the Company's Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2000 and other filings with the SEC by both FOCUS and Videonics.