MGI Software To Release New Generation Photo, Video, and Publishing Products For Windows NT Users.RICHMOND HILL, Ont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 1996--MGI SOFTWARE CORP.MGI MGI Mouse Genome Informatics MGI Modular Gateway Interface MGI McKinsey Global Institute MGI Military Geographic Information MGI Marine Geological Institute MGI Policy on the Management of Government Information (Canada) Software Corp., a leader in PC photography software, today announced plans to release three new products designed to run on Windows NT Workstation 4.0. The soon-to-be-released products include MGI PhotoSuite 8.0, the industry's best-selling photo imaging software; MGI VideoWave, a complete video authoring software package with built-in MPEG encoding and decoding; and MGI Calamus calamus (kăl`əməs): see arum. 2.0, the industry's first high-end Microsoft Unicode-enabled desktop publishing application. "MGI's commitment to the 32-bit desktop and the Windows NT operating system has been ongoing since having shipped out first NT product last year," said Anthony DeCristofaro, 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. , MGI Software, "Our new generation 32-bit applications provide more compelling reasons for selecting or using Windows NT, such as the ability to manage complex, graphically intensive files, multitasking." "The Windows NT Workstation 4.0 promises to combine the case of use of Windows 95 with the reliability and security of Window NT," added DeCristofaro. "Windows NT easily manages complex, graphically intensive files and provides true multitasking which our products take complete advantage of and deliver incredible value to those who want to work with photography, video, and publishing." MGI PhotoSuite 8.0 MGI PhotoSuite 8.0 is the easiest way to edit, capture, catalog and transform photos on a home or business computer. The product contains photo editing and special effect tools, a photo lens kit, image capture and file conversion utilities, a slide show capability, and thumbnail cataloging for easy storage and retrieval. Whether creating images for Web site, or storing interesting pictures from the Web, MGI PhotoSuite is an ideal companion to any Internet application. The product is shipping this month. MGI VideoWave MGI VideoWave is a complete video capture, editing and production software suite for home and business users. Video is gaining greater importance in all aspects of computing including, business presentations, Internet, and communications. One can produce videos for Web sites or capture video-conferencing sessions for distribution to other company employees. Some of the key features include software-only capture of still images from any analog video source or from 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. , QuickTime or 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). movies; Cinepack compression; and VidMail which allows video e-mail attachments. The product is expected to ship this fall. MGI Calamus 2.0 MGI Calamus 2.0 is a full-featured next generation WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. electronic publishing package with support for a broad range of languages and formatting methods. It's built-in-rendering engine for fonts, vector graphics and bitmaps ensures a high degree of design sending flexibility and the ability to output complete pages in resolutions up to 10,000 dpi without the use of a PostScript RIP. MGI Calamus also supports Internet electronic publishing with HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. export and import features. The product is expected to ship this fall. About MGI Software Founded by Corel, Delrina, AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) executives, MGI Software Corp. develops, markets and supports innovative software for creating, editing and manipulating photographs, video, audio, electronic content and documents on Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Apple Macintosh and IBM OS/2 computers. The Company's products provide home and business users with creative and affordable ways to use multimedia on their PCs and the Internet. MGI Software is headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario Richmond Hill (2006 population 162,704) is a town in York Region north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area. History The area was first surveyed by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1794 while he was constructing Yonge Street. and has branch offices in the U.S. and Europe. For more information about MGI and its products visit mgisoft.com on the World Wide Web. CONTACT: MGI Software Corporation Josef Zankowicz, 905/764-7000, ext.250 |
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