Business Overview
Located in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS is the developer of
the most widely used professional MPEG encoder, MPEG Power Professional™. This
top-rated product is the first MPEG encoder to provide all the features and encoding
quality of a high-end system without the expensive hardware. MPEG Power
Professional™ is used by professional producers of digital media to compress and
convert video, animation, sound, special effect, and graphics clips.
HEURIS' sharp focus on developing cutting-edge MPEG-1 and
MPEG-2 solutions has netted it numerous awards and special recognition. For two
years running (1997 and 1998) New Media Magazine has awarded its Hyper Award for
technical excellence and innovation to HEURIS for the MPEG Power Professional™ line
of products. In 2001, HEURIS won both the DV Award of Excellence and the AV Video
Reader's Choice Award. In 2002, HEURIS was recognized as a Laureate in the
prestigious Computerworld Search for Heroes program. HEURIS' MPEG encoding solutions
meet the current and evolving needs of professional video and multimedia content
developers who require products that are feature rich, that deliver the highest levels of
encoding quality, and that are reasonably-priced.
Target Markets
Professional Movie Production and Post Production
Companies--Movie production and post production companies for Hollywood movies
for applications including digital dailies and digital cinema.
Professional Digital Video—Video and
multimedia developers in corporate departments, video post production and multimedia
houses, and the corresponding semi-professional businesses for applications such as:
informational kiosks, corporate training, sales presentations and web pages.
Professional Broadcast—Video producers
in television, network, cable, and telecommunications for high-bandwidth applications such
as: Video-on-Demand (VOD), advertising and programming insertion, archiving and storage
and intranet-based training.
Higher Education/Government—Video
developers and multimedia creators in universities and other large-scale campus
environments for applications such as: kiosks, specialized remote training and distance
learning.
Product Line Overview
The MPEG Power Professional™ line of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and
DVD software encoding products enables high-quality, full-screen, full-motion video to be
easily incorporated into computer-based applications. The MPEG Power
Professional™ products work directly with professional nonlinear editors like the
Media 100™ and Avid Media Composer™ systems and do not require the user to go
back to tape in order to create MPEG files. This all-digital solution preserves
image resolution and thus delivers the highest quality of MPEG encoding. MPEG Power
Professional™ also accepts digital files in Motion JPEG, Apple Quicktime, and AVI
file formats, enabling all users to keep their files in digital formats and guarantees the
best possible image quality. MPEG Power Professional™ addresses the needs and
abilities of both beginners and experienced users; beginners can use the pre-built,
optimized encoding templates to quickly begin encoding while experienced users can
customize the existing templates or create new templates of their own. MPEG Power
Professional™ runs on Windows 95™, Windows NT™and Apple ™ platforms.
The MPEG Power software line includes MPEG Power
Professional™ (MPEG-1 encoding), MPEG Power Professional-2™ (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2
encoding), MPEG Power Professional-DVD™ (which includes MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, variable
bitrate and transport layer muxing), MPEG Power Professional--DTV SD (which includes
transport multiplexing for DTV applications), MPEG Power Professional--DTV HD (which
includes HD encoding up to 38.8 Mbps), and MPEG Power Professional DTV for D Cinema (which
includes HD encoding up to 108 Mbps for theater displays).
In addition HEURIS offers three consumer video compression
utilities: The HEURIS MPEG Export Engine, The HEURIS MPEG Export Engine Pro and The HEURIS
Xtractor.
HEURIS recently also unveiled its Digital Dailes service
which may be utilized by movie production companies for producing digital dailies in HD
format.
Distribution
HEURIS products are available direct from the company, and
through dealers, distributors, and OEM vendors.
Management
HEURIS' management is an experienced team of multimedia and
software development experts who have focused for the last 6 years on providing
feature-rich, high-quality MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 solutions to professional producers of
digital media. An active member of the ISO for the last 6 years, HEURIS CEO Brian
Quandt contributed to significant portions of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards, and
recently published some of his extensive research on the parallelization of MPEG.
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