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TechSmith Upgrades EnSharpen Codec with Universal Support for Intel-based Macintosh Computers; High-Compression, High-Quality Screen-Recordings from EnSharpen are Playable via QuickTime on Windows and Macintosh Computers.


OKEMOS, Mich. -- TechSmith Corp., the world's leading provider of screen capture and recording solutions, today introduced EnSharpen 1.1, enabling individuals with Intel-based Macintosh computers to compress screen recordings such as multimedia tutorials, presentations, screencasts, and animated content for cross-platform playback via QuickTime on Macintosh and Windows computers.

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, QuickTime Pro, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Snapz Pro, iMovie and all other Macintosh and Windows authoring and editing tools that allow access to third-party video codecs for QuickTime. EnSharpen is an unprecedented lossless See lossless compression.

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"With the explosion of online video and broadband, individuals and organizations are delivering screen-recorded content more often than ever and viewers are demanding that the content load fast without sacrificing clarity," said Cindy Fuhrman, EnSharpen Product Marketing Manager at TechSmith. "The new generation of professional content creators running Intel-based Macs can use EnSharpen with its elegant and effortless delivery 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,  without having to choose between compression and quality."

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 is available at: http://www.techsmith.com/codecs/ensharpen/compression.asp

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. EnSharpen also 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 The media player software that comes with QuickTime for the Mac and Windows. See QuickTime.  on the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

System Requirements and Availability

EnSharpen 1.1 supports Macintosh OS X 10.4 and higher. EnSharpen is available immediately for download at www.techsmith.com. The suggested retail price is $149.00 for a single license. The EnSharpen decoder is available at no charge at: http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp

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 teaching, training, Web sites, documentation, and business presentations. Morae is the first and only all-digital solution for recording and analyzing human-computer interaction. TechSmith products are used by 98 percent of the Fortune 500. For additional information, visit http://www.techsmith.com/products/studio/default.asp.

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), Morae, EnSharpen, Dubit, and Camtasia Studio are trademarks of TechSmith Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective companies.
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