Canopus Announces Upgrade for DVRex-RT Professional

Canopus Corporation, developers of award-winning digital videoediting and encoding products, announced an upgrade to DVRex-RTProfessional and DVRex-RT, its full-featured, professional-level,realtime nonlinear editing solutions. New features include a collectionof additional realtime 3D transitions and effects, as well as expandedcolor-correction capabilities.

This DVRex-RT Professional upgrade takes realtime editing further byincluding expanded features that deliver 14 realtime 2D/3D transitionsand effects, including the new 3D Picture-in-Picture transition and 13new 3D transitions. Six new video filters, such as white balance andblack balance, bring additional color-correction capabilities toDVRex-RT Professional.

Upgrade Program
Due to Canopus's Scalable Technology, DVRex-RT Professional's newcapabilities can be added through a simple software update. The upgradeis available free to Canopus customers who have purchased DVRex-RTProfessional after October 1, 2002. Customers who purchased DVRex-RTProfessional before October 1, 2002 can purchase the upgrade for $99.In addition to the owners of DVRex-RT Professional, owners of DVRex-RTcan also upgrade their systems for $99. For additional upgrade details,visit the Canopus website at www.canopus.com.

About DVRex-RT Professional
DVRex-RT Professional includes realtime editing, MPEG encoding, DVDauthoring, soundtrack creation and Internet streaming tools to providevideo professionals with a complete NLE solution in one package. Withits scalable technology, component video I/O, balanced audio I/O,RS-422 analog deck control, a professional 19" breakout box, plus anextensive collection of realtime features, the DVRex-RT Professionalprovides the tools required by today's video experts. DVRex-RTProfessional also includes Adobe Premiere 6.5, Canopus Rex Edit, SonicDVDit! SE, Sonic Foundry ACID Style 3.0, Boris GRAFFITI 2.1, CanopusXplode Basics and an Adobe Premiere RT plug-in that brings Rex Edit'sextensive collection of realtime filters and transitions, includingpicture-in-picture, slow motion, movie look, color correction andchroma key and luma key, to Premiere. DVRex-RT Professional offersnative DV editing with realtime analog and DV output for greaterquality and timesavings. DVRex-RT Professional supports camera controlof DV, DVCAM and RS-422 devices to give the user frame-accurate batchcapture and timeline output for both DV and analog decks. DVRex-RTProfessional is available for a suggested retail price of $4399.

Canopus Scalable Technology
DVRex-RT Professional is capable of simultaneously processing up toseven streams of video in realtime on an Intel Pentium 4 2GHz+ or AMDAthlon 2000+ system using a SCSI disk array. The DVRex-RT Professionalcan perform potentially unlimited numbers of simultaneous realtimevideo filters, titles and graphics layer combinations, depending onCPU-processing power. This power and expandability is made possiblewith Canopus's proprietary Scalable Technology. Pioneered by Canopus in1998, Scalable Technology ensures that DVRex-RT Professional's realtimeediting capabilities expand as CPU power increases. This scalabilityextends the life of DVRex-RT Professional and ensures that users willget a greater return on their investment.