TechSmith Introduces EnSharpen Video Codec for QuickTime, Ends Compromise Between High-Quality, Lossless Compression and Small File Size.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OKEMOS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2003 Cross-Platform Plug-In Optimized to Playback Screen Recordings for Training, Education and Business Presentations TechSmith Corp., the world's leading provider of screen capture and recording solutions for consumers and business professionals, today introduced EnSharpen, an unprecedented lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. video codec (1) A hardware circuit that converts analog video (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) into digital code and vice versa. The term may refer to only the A/D and D/A conversion, or it may include the compression technique for further reducing the signal (definition #2 below). See codec. for QuickTime that offers Macintosh and Windows users a compression solution that enables high-quality, small-file video playback. Content professionals and software developers can now compress their tutorials, multimedia presentations and animated content with the EnSharpen codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, for easy viewing in the QuickTime Player The media player software that comes with QuickTime for the Mac and Windows. See QuickTime. on Macintosh and Windows platforms. EnSharpen is based on the TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC TSCC Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children TSCC Twin Swirl Combustion Chamber (Suzuki motorcycle engine technology of the 1960s; 4-stroke) TSCC Toxic Substances Coordinating Committee TSCC Transportation Security Coordination Center ) in the company's market-leading Camtasia Studio  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . desktop recorder. EnSharpen is the first delivery codec that provides Macintosh users with lossless quality and a high compression ratio compression ratio Degree to which the fuel mixture in an internal-combustion engine is compressed before ignition. It is defined as the volume of the combustion chamber with the piston farthest out divided by the volume with the piston in the full-compression position ( . "EnSharpen is the most exciting new codec for QuickTime in years," said Ben Waggoner, principal of Ben Waggoner Digital, a compressed video compressed video - video compression consulting, training, and encoding company. "It provides Mac users with a way to play back the large existing library of Camtasia Studio content, and gives content creators a great new cross-platform codec for screen animations, with file sizes that are only a fraction of what used to be required." Once downloaded, EnSharpen integrates with Camtasia Studio, QuickTime Pro, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro and all other Macintosh and Windows authoring and editing tools that allow access to third-party video codecs for QuickTime Movie files. In addition, EnSharpen enables all 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. video files encoded with the original TSCC codec to play in the QuickTime Player on the Macintosh and PC platforms. "Thousands of training professionals, educators and content developers who use Camtasia Studio to create videos, demonstrations and presentations now have a single codec to deliver material via the Internet to Mac and PC users," said Cindy Fuhrman, EnSharpen Product Marketing Manager at TechSmith. "Anyone who must deliver content to Mac users will realize immediate time and cost savings by effortlessly delivering high-quality content without having to sacrifice compression." Internal company tests at TechSmith have shown EnSharpen delivers exceptional lossless compression A compression technique that decompresses data back to its original form without any loss. The decompressed file and the original are identical. All compression methods used to compress text, databases and other business data are lossless. results. For example, a 280MB file of screen recordings and animated video can be compressed to 1.8MB. EnSharpen has a 1:1 compression process, meaning that a 1-minute long video will take one minute to compress. System Requirements and Availability EnSharpen supports Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, and Macintosh OS 9/OS X. EnSharpen is available immediately for download at www.techsmith.com. The suggested retail price is $149.00 for a single license. About TechSmith Corporation TechSmith Corporation was founded in 1987 and is located in Okemos, Michigan. TechSmith provides practical business software tools to capture and manipulate images, voice and video from Windows desktops. The company's flagship software packages, SnagIt and Camtasia Studio, enable customers to create visually enhanced content for Internet broadcasts, Web sites and business presentations. For additional information, visit www.techsmith.com. TechSmith, Camtasia and SnagIt are registered trademarks of TechSmith Corporation, and Camtasia Studio is a trademark. All other trademarks and registered trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective companies. |
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