St. Louis, Missouri, January 2, 2003— HEURIS, makers of the most widely used professional MPEG encoder MPEG Power Professional™, announced today that they are shipping MPEG Power Professional for OS X, a Mac OS X version of their award winning MPEG encoding software.

MPEG Power Professional for OS X will contain all the features and functionality of the other products in the MPEG Power Professional 2.5 line but is compatible exclusively with MAC OS X. New versions of several of the products in the MPEG Power Professional 2.5 line including DVD, DTV SD and  DTV HD encoding software will be available for the new Macintosh operating system.

"Interest in an OS X version of our powerful and fully featured MPEG Power Professional line has been very high," said HEURIS President, Brian Quandt. "We’re proud to be able to offer a leading edge video product for high definition content creation that is significantly faster in conjunction with Apple’s fastest and most efficient operating system to date. With all the new fantastic new features of the MAC OS X operating system combined with HEURIS’ encoding software it provides an outstanding path from Final Cut Pro straight to HD."

"This new MPEG software really showcases the newest advantages of OS X, including multiprocessor support," said HEURIS CTO Brian Roy. "HEURIS has been a great source of Apple products for many years. I’m glad to see that we are continuing our dedication to technical excellence and the Apple platform."

 Pricing and Availability

 MPEG Power Professional for OS X is available directly from HEURIS and through its distributors. During the month of January HEURIS is offering a significant discount towards the purchase of MPEG Power Professional – DTVHD for OS X.

 About HEURIS

Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS has served as a leading manufacturer of video compression and processing tools and applications for over a decade. From the Internet, to DVD, to HDTV to Hollywood Movies--HEURIS has developed an impressive group of award-winning tools for video production and post production applications.

Perhaps best known for its award-winning MPEG Power Professional Line of software products, HEURIS has recently released two new products for the Hollywood Market: a Digital Dailies solution developed in conjunction with partner Cohen Communications and MPEG Power Professional—D-Cinema, which is used to encode High Definition pictures for display in movie theaters.

In addition to major motion picture studio MGM, HEURIS proudly includes the following as its customers: NASA, Walt Disney, 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. More information about HEURIS Logic is available at www.heuris.com.