| For Immediate Release For more information contact: HEURIS Does it Again! HEURIS' MPEG Power Professional software for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding wins award for best MPEG-2 encoder from New Media Magazine NAB, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 5, 1998 — MPEG Power Professional-2™ has received NewMedia Magazine’s 1998 Hyper Award in the MPEG-2 encoder category. MPEG Power Professional-2 was featured in the special awards section of the March 3 issue of New Media magazine and on the company’s Web site, www.newmedia.com. This is the second year in a row that HEURIS brought home NewMedia’s prestigious Hyper Award. Last year, HEURIS won the 1997 Hyper Award for its MPEG Power Professional product. MPEG Power Professional-2 gives professional content creators and video application developers a cost effective alternative to MPEG encoding hardware while still providing high quality output suitable for a wide range of multimedia and video transmission applications such as sales presentations, interactive kiosks, corporate training, web pages, and DVD. The product is both flexible and comprehensive, supplying easy templates that optimize compression for MPEG beginners, plus advanced customization features that allow experienced professionals to control encode parameters. The product also makes it easy to develop digital video segments that can be downloaded over the Internet. "Digital professionals look to NewMedia’s Hyper Awards when selecting the products and technologies that will take digital media into the 21st century," said New Media chairman & CEO Richard Landry. Hyper Award winners are chosen by the magazine’s editorial staff, contributing editors, and other experts, and they represent the highest achievements in innovation and technical excellence. "This is really an honor," says Brian Quandt, President of HEURIS. "It speaks to our ability to consistently turn out great products. Winning the Hyper Award once is great. Winning it twice in a row--well, it’s a trend." MPEG Power Professional-2 offers MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding capabilities. MPEG Power Professional-2 runs on the PowerPC™ (running MacOS 7.5 or later), an Intel Pentium™ or a Digital Alpha™ system (running Windows 95 or NT™). Accepted video inputs include OMFI (exported by Avid Media Composer™, MCX™ and others), Quicktime™ files and AVI files. HEURIS is currently shipping version 1.3 of its MPEG Power Professional-2 software. This software contains several important improvements over the previous 1.2 version including advanced MPEG-2 encoding capabilities, improved audio resampling capabilities, and significantly accelerated encoding times. Pricing and Availability MPEG Power Professional-2 is currently available for $2,500 direct from HEURIS, or through dealers and distributors. The product is currently shipping. Customers who have previously purchased MPEG Power Professional™ for $1,500 may upgrade to MPEG Power Professional-2 for an additional $1,000. About HEURIS Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS is the developer of the most widely used professional 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, Electronic Arts, IBM, Vanderbilt University, EDS and the U.S. Military. HEURIS can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.heuris.com. About NewMedia Magazine NewMedia magazine, the magazine for creators of the digital future, is published by HyperMedia Communications, Inc. The magazine specializes in comprehensive comparative product reviews supported by the NewMedia Lab, a state-of-the-art digital testing studio. NewMedia serves 215,000 professionals who buy and use digital media products and services. NewMedia is a registered trademark of HyperMedia Communications, Inc. ### |
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