Canopus Announces Summer Software Promotion

Canopus Corporation today announced a special summer softwarepromotion that brings together full versions of the company's acclaimedsoftware products into two comprehensive video production and effectssuites - the Canopus Visual Effects Suite and the Canopus ProductionSuite. Canopus is offering these software suites now through August 31,2003 at a savings from $199 to $896.

Canopus Visual Effects Suite
Bringing together Xplode Professional 4.0, PhotoAlbum 2.0 andImaginate, the Canopus Visual Effects Suite provides videoprofessionals with an arsenal of tools to quickly and easily createstunning videos. With a price of $399, the Canopus Visual Effects Suiteis a full-featured, cost-effective solution. For greater savings,customers can purchase the Canopus Visual Effects Suite for $299 withthe purchase of a Canopus hardware nonlinear editing solution, such asDVRaptor RT2 or DVStorm2.

The mainstay of the Canopus Visual Effects Suite is XplodeProfessional 4.0, an advanced 3D video effects package that provideshundreds of customizable effects, transitions and an intuitiveinterface that makes creating custom effects a snap. PhotoAlbum 2.0 isincluded and is ideal for displaying a series of still images orcreating a video album montage. Also included is Imaginate, thecompany's popular still-image animation software application. WithImaginate, editors can breathe new life into still images andphotographs, transforming them into movies that can be used to bringhistory to life, create montages or anything else the videoprofessional can imagine.

Canopus Production Suite
Designed to give editors a complete video editing solution, the CanopusProduction Suite combines the remarkable collection of applicationsfound in the Canopus Visual Effects Suite with Canopus's powerful EDIUSnonlinear editing application and its state-of-the-art videotranscoding tool, ProCoder. With a price of $999, this collection savescustomers almost $900 off the MSRP.

At the heart of the Canopus Production Suite is EDIUS, Canopus's newprofessional editing software for use with the company's acclaimedDVStorm and DVRex RT lines of editing solutions. EDIUS breaks newground in editing capability, productivity and workflow by unitingCanopus's proprietary technologies into a new, unified processingengine. EDIUS delivers unprecedented flexibility by offering unlimitedvideo and audio tracks, unlimited graphics and title layers, theability to transition between multiple video tracks, voiceoverrecording directly to the timeline, 3-point or 4-point editing for evengreater flexibility, as well as multiformat and realtime outputcapabilities - all in a fresh graphical user interface that makes iteasy to create powerful, professional video and audio content.

Canopus's ProCoder video encoding software is also included in thesuite. Whether you're encoding MPEG format for DVD production orWindows Media for Web streaming, ProCoder makes conversion betweenvideo formats quick and easy. Featuring Canopus's highly optimized DVand MPEG codecs, ProCoder provides high-quality video output withoutthe long wait and guesswork of similar tools.