Media 100 Announces Version 2 844/X Finishing Release; Expands Workflow and Toolsets for Color Correction, Unlimited-Layer Compositing, Editing, And Audio.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MARLBORO Marlboro or Marlborough (märl`bərō), city (1990 pop. 31,813), Middlesex co., E Mass.; settled on the site of a Native American village 1657, inc. as a city 1890. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003 Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MDEA MDEA 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-Ethylamphetamine (empathogenic/psychedelic drug closely related to MDMA) MDEA Master Data Exchange Agreement MDEA Methyl Di-Ethyl Amine ), a leading provider of advanced media systems, today announced The Finishing Release--its Version 2.0 software release for 844/X. The largest software advancement of 844/X since first shipments last April, The Finishing Release expands 844/X on many fronts with new toolsets for color correction Altering the colors in an image in order to print or display it properly or for special effects. Depending on the application, color correction can be a significant problem if the resulting image must be approved or a purchase is made because of color choice. , unlimited-layer compositing, editing, and audio. The Company plans to feature The Finishing Release in April at NAB 2003 and begin first customer shipments in May 2003. "For the past year we have been working daily with active 844/X users," said Rick Keilty, product marketing director at Media 100. "From this experience, we have engineered in The Finishing Release completely new additions for finishing with 844/X, such as real-time GenesisEngine color correction. Also, in this release we are using much more of the real-time image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished power of the GenesisEngine. So users discover that the 844/X workflow is expanded, yet it's as fast and fluid as ever, even when working on projects with extremely high layer counts." GenesisEngine Color Correction The Finishing Release features a newly-engineered color correction toolset that delivers high precision and real-time speed enabling users to view and interactively adjust and match the color values of clips instantly and accurately. The precision and throughput are breakthroughs enabled by the GenesisEngine that powers 844/X and whose onboard Foss, Holmes, and Hatalsky custom silicon processors incorporate color correction algorithms that execute in real time. GenesisEngine color correction employs 10-bit quantization (1) The division of a range of values into a single number, code or classification. For example, class A is 0 to 999, class B is 1000 to 9999 and class C is 10000 and above. (2) In analog to digital conversion, the assignment of a number to the amplitude of a wave. throughout and computational precision up to 31 bits while processing in real time up to four uncompressed video streams simultaneously. The precision and speed of the color correction toolset supports swift, interactive decision making. Users can manipulate color values using tonal range curves and view the histogram histogram or bar graph Graph using vertical or horizontal bars whose lengths indicate quantities. Along with the pie chart, the histogram is the most common format for representing statistical data. levels of both input and output color values simultaneously to adjust values and finalize decisions. A user-adjustable split-screen in the Viewer Window simplifies referencing and comparing two clips simultaneously to verify color matches and optimize settings. The color correction toolset includes full control over master, shadows, mid-tones and highlights, including hue, saturation, contrast, gain, gamma, pedestal, and levels. Matte Design And Rotoscoping Creating animated characters by tracing an action movie with real actors frame by frame. Performed via the computer today, rotoscoping was originally accomplished in the early 1900s by projecting each movie frame onto a frosted glass easel, from which the illustrator traced and redrew the The Finishing Release significantly improves the content designer's ability to create static and animated mattes, and features a powerful new spline In computer graphics, a smooth curve that runs through a series of given points. The term is often used to refer to any curve, because long before computers, a spline was a flat, pliable strip of wood or metal that was bent into a desired shape for drawing curves on paper. See Bezier and B-spline. tool that lets users rotoscope See rotoscoping. and create sophisticated spline-based mattes. Other new matte design support includes: -- Viewing individually the foreground layer, the background layer, the matte layer, or the result; -- Viewing the foreground, background or result layer overlaid o·ver·laid v. Past tense and past participle of overlay1. with a transparent "ruby" matte to precisely position or shape the matte and add or adjust splines or matte shape; -- A new circular gradient tool; -- Specifying if the matte is enabled for an entire clip, from the current frame to the end of the clip, or just for the current frame, empowering the user to create unique effects such as creating write-on mattes; -- Saving and re-editing mattes. Unlimited-Layer Compositing The Finishing Release increases the power of the 844/X Keyframe Curve Editor. This interface is the editing and compositing heart of 844/X that gives editing users much more power to edit, design effects, and composite layers than conventional dual-stream systems. With new curve segment dragging, the user can now grab and position segments of a curve directly without having to select individual keyframes. A new automatic drag-to-add-keyframe capability allows the user to easily and instantly insert keyframes wherever the user modifies a curve. These additions simplify and increase the power of the compositing workflow. The Finishing Release adds to the Viewer window that accompanies the Keyframe Curve Editor the ability for the user to easily drag and position video as well as set the anchor point Anchor Point may refer to:
Motion Effects Variable motion effects that users may keyframe are a major addition to the Parameter Editor--a complement to the Keyframe Curve Editor and second "window" into the compositing power of 844/X. New to 844/X with The Finishing Release, this powerful effects design capability, integrated into the Parameter Editor as TimeFX, includes support for slow motion, fast motion, strobe strobe n. 1. A strobe light. 2. A stroboscope. 3. A spot of higher than normal intensity in the sweep of an indicator, as on a radar screen, used as a reference mark for determining distance. motion, and trail effects that can be keyframed. 3:2 Pulldown The Finishing Release adds to 844/X the ability to detect video that originated as 24-frames-per-second film. 844/X uses this information to properly process effects on the appropriate film-originated frames, yielding high-quality picture results by avoiding the temporal artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. that are a common problem when editing or applying video effects See digital video effects. to source material captured originally on film. Expanded Audio Audio-for-video support has been enhanced in The Finishing Release to include support for stereo pairs, audio waveform The shape of a signal. See wavelength, sine wave and square wave. display on the timeline, in-track breakpoint The location in a program used to temporarily halt the program for testing and debugging. Lines of code in a source program are marked for breakpoints. When those instructions are about to be executed, the program stops, allowing the programmer to examine the status of the program controls that enable rubber-band control over pan and gain, and support for digital audio scrub. Enhanced Media Management The Finishing Release includes media management enhancements such as the ability to play, scrub and edit clips directly within the picons of the Bin window--including the ability to set in and out points without having to move the clip to the timeline. Also, media consolidation for conserving disk space or transporting programs has been increased to include consolidating media by clip, project, program or bin, and being able to select full clips or edited clips with trim-handle ranges, as well as the ability to select the destination of the consolidated media - including network locations. Pricing and Availability The Company expects first customer shipments of The Finishing Release to begin in May 2003. 844/X is available worldwide with prices starting at $24,995 for Media 100 software and hardware. Complete 844/X system configurations start at about $40,000 and are available exclusively through authorized 844/X value-added resellers. For more information, or to obtain a comprehensive list of authorized resellers, please call (800) 773-1770 or visit www.media100.com. About Media 100 Media 100 develops award-winning advanced media systems for content design, enabling creative professionals to design highly evocative effects-intensive work on a personal computer. Creative artists and content design teams around the world use Media 100's Emmy Award-winning solutions. The Company is headquartered in Marlboro, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit www.media100.com. Media 100, 844/X, Intelligent Layering Architecture, GenesisEngine and InstantMedia are registered trademarks of Media 100 Inc. All other products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. www.media100.com |
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