Heuris Demos New Low-Cost Indie HD Toolkit at Macworld

Heuris, a pioneer in HD solutions for the independent filmmaker,will demo its new Indie HD Toolkit in the JVC booth at Macworld. TheIndie HD toolkit will feature a series of software tools developed byHeuris that lets videographers bring footage shot with therevolutionary JY-HD10U camera into Apple's Final Cut Pro digital videoediting program.

The new Indie HD toolkit will be different from the previouslyreleased Heuris Pro Indie HD Toolkit in two important ways. First, themore fully featured MPEG Power Professional HD will be replaced withthe easy-to-use XportHD MPEG-2 encoding software. Second, the pricewill be reduced to under $500.

The New Indie HD Toolkit will feature three powerful software tools:the XtractorHDV import utility, the all-new XportHD MPEG-2 encodingsoftware, and the XtoHD player utility. Heuris has developed andbundled these tools to enable independent filmmakers utilizing JVC'sJY-HD10U camera to transfer footage easily to the Final Cut Pro editingtool.

"Our goal is to make HD technology accessible for all video andfilmmakers," said Heuris president Brian Quandt. "With this goal inmind, we made the encoding part of the process even easier with our newXportHD encoding software. This one-button HD encoding process makes HDdelivery a snap. And the new price can't help but make this technologyavailable to an even larger group of talented shooters andproducers."

With the Heuris Indie HD Toolkit, the process from HD acquisition todistribution is simple. Filmmakers shoot their footage with the JVCJY-HD10U cameras. Connecting an IEEE 1394 FireWire from the JVC camerato the desktop, users can download HD video through XtractorHDV with asingle click, which imports and converts the HDV into a format suitablefor use by the Final Cut Pro digital video editing system. Once thefootage has been edited, XportHD software encodes the footage into 720pMPEG-2 HD streams. The XtoHD tool transfers the MPEG-2 streams to aD-VHS deck for playback or can record to D-VHS tape if so desired.

The Heuris Indie HD Toolkit includes:

·XtractorHDV - A powerful import tool that transfers video andaudio from JVC HD cameras to the desktop through an IEEE 1394connector. The XtractorHDV utility lets Final Cut Pro import native HDVfootage for the first time.

·XportHD - This easy-to-use MPEG-2 encoding software encodesfiles directly from the Final Cut Pro timeline using QuickTimeexport.

·XtoHD -Heuris' player utility plays back HD files through aD-VHS deck through an IEEE 1394 FireWire and can also record footage toD-HVS tape.

Pricing and Availability
Heuris will begin shipping the entire Indie HD Toolkit in February withan SRP of $499. The product will be available direct from Heuris at(800) 923-9232 or from the Heuris website at www.heuris.com.XtractorHDV and XtoHD can be purchased today for $199 and $99respectively.

About Heuris
Headquartered in St. Louis, Heuris has served as a leading manufacturerof video compression and processing tools and applications for over adecade. From the Internet to DVD to HDTV to Hollywood movies, Heurishas developed an impressive group of award-winning tools for videoproduction and postproduction applications. Perhaps best known for itsaward-winning MPEG Power Professional line of software products, Heurishas recently released two new products for the Hollywood market: adigital dailies solution, developed in conjunction with partner CohenCommunications, and MPEG Power Professional-D-Cinema, used to encode HDpictures for display in movie theaters. In addition, Heuris hasdeveloped several key software products for the consumer electronicsindustry. In particular, Heuris' DVD ConnexIT line provides criticalconnectivity between rewritable DVDs and various other consumerelectronic components. More information about Heuris Logic is availableat www.heuris.com.