| For Immediate Release For More Information, Please Contact: HEURIS and Spruce Technologies Announce New OEM Bundling Agreement HEURIS’ MPEG Power Professional-2 version 2.0 now bundled with all of Spruce’s Professional DVD Authoring Software. St. Louis, MO, February 14, 2001 -- HEURIS, makers of the most widely used professional MPEG encoder, and Spruce, the world’s leading provider of DVD authoring tools, today announced a new bundling arrangement. Spruce will bundle HEURIS’ MPEG Power Professional-2 version 2.0 with all of its professional DVD authoring software packages. Spruce’s award-winning DVD authoring software along with HEURIS’ MPEG Power Professional will provide the customer with a complete DVD encoding and authoring solution. This package easily converts projects created on Avid (via the OMF file format), Media 100 and other QuickTime nonlinear editing systems to DVD compatible video and audio streams. These streams can then be manipulated within Spruce’s authoring software to create powerful and professional DVD applications."Now the most widely used MPEG encoding solution and the best-selling DVD authoring solution are all together in one package," says HEURIS President, Brian Quandt. " This new bundle puts everything together for the DVD developers and allows them to focus on what’s really important—developing exciting and meaningful DVD content." HEURIS’ MPEG Power Professional-2 version 2.0 is a powerful new upgrade to HEURIS’ award winning MPEG Power Professional software. This new version makes full use of Apple’s G4 with Velocity Engine and Intel’s PIII MMX/SSE instruction sets for significantly faster encoding times. In addition, the new upgrade offers source file concatenation and frame-by-frame control over every aspect of the encoding process. "Spruce pushes the price/performance envelope with features that you find in encoding packages that cost many thousands more," says Kirk Paulsen, Executive Vice President of Spruce Technologies. "We are excited to marry the best in authoring features with HEURIS’ MPEG Power Professional, the fastest and best quality encoder for industry standard file formats." About Spruce Technologies, Inc. Spruce Technologies develops and markets DVD authoring software and MPEG encoders 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 ### |
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