Sonic Foundry Announces Bundling Partnership With Pinnacle Systems.Business Editors MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000 Sonic Foundry's Stream Anywhere LE and ACID Style Software Bundled With Pinnacle's Targa 3100, 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. 2000, and Other High-End Solutions Sonic Foundry Sonic Foundry is the former developer of various media software suites, which were purchased by Sony in late 2003. Sonic Foundry's current product line consists of the webcasting, presentation software Mediasite. (R), Inc. (Nasdaq:SOFO SOFO Student Organization Financial Office (University of Colorado at Boulder) ), the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, today announced that its Stream Anywhere(TM) LE and ACID(TM) Style software products are bundled with Pinnacles' Targa 3100, DVD2000, and other high-end offerings. "We are excited to enhance our ongoing relationship with Sonic Foundry by providing a robust solution to our customers," stated Jeff Medeiros at Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Systems, Inc. is a California-based American manufacturer of digital video hardware and software for the consumer and broadcast markets. It was founded in 1986. In 2002 Pinnacle purchased VOB Computersysteme GmbH (now pinnaclesys.de). , Inc. "By integrating Sonic Foundry's high-quality software products into our powerful hardware systems, customers will now have all the tools necessary for digital video and audio at a very affordable price." Stream Anywhere LE provides Pinnacle users an all-in-one software solution for developing high-impact streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. for the Internet for the casual and professional Web developer or video producer. The product offers the ability to re-purpose video files utilizing proprietary tools that prepare content for optimum playback in a streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. format. Stream Anywhere LE encodes to Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. and RealSystem G2 formats for easy integration into any Web site. Sonic Foundry's ACID Style combined with Pinnacle's products offer media producers a solution for creating original, royalty-free music quickly and easily for their video production. Users create music in any style with its multi-genre loop library. Music is created with a pick, paint, and play interface, complex sequencers, or musical instruments. "Pinnacle Systems hardware, combined with Sonic Foundry's state-of-the-art software, will prove to be a very valuable combination to those that want the best in cutting-edge Web content," stated Jeff Conover, vice president of marketing for Sonic Foundry. "The goal of our relationship is to offer one-of-kind integrated solutions and this bundling partnership accomplishes that task." About TARGA 3100 and DVD2000 The TARGA 3000 is Pinnacle Systems' most powerful desktop editing and compositing solution. TARGA 3000 provides impeccable quality including true uncompressed video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. , multi-layer compositing, flexible compression formats and unmatched effects power. TARGA 3000 offers a complete range of analog and digital I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output provided by the TARGA 3000 family of breakout boxes. The DVD2000 is complete videotape, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , DVD, and Internet video Video material obtained from the Internet. It may refer to streaming video from real time broadcasts, streaming archival material or downloading video files for watching later, all of which are viewed on the computer. delivery solution. It combines frame accurate dual stream MPEG-2 video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. and DVD authoring. DVD2000 encodes directly in the DVD format and can edit or immediately author this video. It bundles Adobe Premiere and Minerva Impression 2.0 DVD authoring software. About Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Systems' broadcast, desktop, and consumer products provide video professionals and consumers cutting-edge digital video tools to create, store, distribute and view Web enabled digital video easier and more affordably than ever before. Pinnacle Systems may be reached at 650/526-1600 or on the World Wide Web at www.pinnaclesys.com. About Sonic Foundry Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is a leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems. Its award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications including audio, video and film post-production, broadcast production, and digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. . The company's products and services offer media consumers everywhere the ability to create and capture media, edit the content, and deliver the information via fixed media channels or electronic distribution. Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division offers premium solutions for delivering audio and video content online. The division provides the industry's most powerful combination of proprietary technologies incorporating high-end encoding, webcasting, syndication systems, content and digital rights management, and consulting services. Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for the company's products, the company's ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services, the effect of new competitors in the company's market, integration of acquired businesses and other risk factors identified from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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