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St Louis, MO, March 7, 2001 - HEURIS, makers of the most widely used professional MPEG encoding software, MPEG Power Professional today announced an aggressive new pricing and product strategy. The PC version of its flagship product MPEG Power Professional will now contain the full version of Spruce Technologies DVD authoring product called SpruceUp. Now users of the PC version of the MPEG Power Professional line can easily create DVDs with one easy-to-use, turnkey product. MPEG Power Professional allows users to convert captured video into a high quality DVD compatible MPEG file. This video content can then be authored in SpruceUp to create a DVD title. This bundling arrangement allows users a faster, more complete way to create a DVD.

"HEURIS’ decision to bundle the full version of SpruceUp with their MPEG encoding solutions creates a complete DVD authoring package," said Spruce Product Manager, Stephen Inoue. "With HEURIS, movie makers, event videographers and corporate communicators can easily create customized DVDs using SpruceUp, our personal DVD authoring solution."

In addition, the price of each of the products in the existing MPEG Power Professional line has been reduced significantly. MPEG Power Professional, HEURIS’ MPEG-1 Constant Bit Rate encoding solution, will now retail for $349; MPEG Power Professional-2, which provides MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Constant Bit Rate encoding, will now retail for $999; MPEG Power Professional-DVD, which delivers MPEG-2 Variable Bit Rate encoding, will now retail for $1,499 and MPEG Power Professional Transport will now retail for $2,499. With the new prices and the bundled DVD authoring software, customers can purchase a turnkey DVD development system for under $1,000.

"MPEG-2 encoding and DVD development is no longer relegated to a mere handful bleeding-edge video houses," said Brian Quandt, CEO of HEURIS. " We’re very excited about bundling the DVD authoring software and offering these new prices because it makes turnkey, high quality DVD development accessible to everyone."

Availability

Customers can purchase MPEG Power Professional with the SpruceUp bundle at the new prices immediately. MPEG Power Professional 2.0 is available directly from HEURIS and through dealers and distributors. Customers may find a reseller, contact the HEURIS sales department or purchase HEURIS products directly via the World Wide Web at www.heuris.com.

About Spruce Technologies, Inc.

Spruce Technologies develops and markets DVD authoring software for the corporate, new media, and entertainment markets. Based in San Jose, California, Spruce combines the best Silicon Valley software expertise with extensive DVD, MPEG and video postproduction knowledge. For more information, contact Spruce at 408-861-2200. 

About HEURIS

Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS is the developer of the most widely used professional software MPEG encoder, MPEG Power Professional. This award-winning, cross-platform software product is the first MPEG encoder to deliver the features and encoding quality demanded by professionals, without the expensive hardware. MPEG Power Professional is used by professional video editors and other creators of digital content to convert video, film, animation, special effects and graphics clips into MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams. MPEG is used with CD-ROMs, DVDs, video kiosks, and over the Internet. HEURIS has been working with MPEG since 1991, and its customers include: The Colorado Rockies, Sea World, The Mirage hotel in Las Vegas, the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, Taco Bell Corporation, The Home Depot, AT&T Labs, IBM, Boeing, Vanderbilt University, Boston Museum of Science and the U.S. Military. HEURIS can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.heuris.com