Media 100 Announces Immediate Availablity of iFinish 4
Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ:MDEA), the leading provider of software, systems and
services for streaming media on the Internet, today announced the immediate availability
of its interactive streaming media production system for the Windows 2000
platform, iFinish 4.
iFinish 4 is tapping into the corporate marketing, web design,
training and communications market with an interactive streaming media creation
solution optimized for corporate networks. As the first streaming media production
system for the corporate marketplace, iFinish 4 is enabling a new breed
of marketing communications and creative professionals to develop high-quality,
interactive streaming media (video and audio) content for delivery on the web.
This technological achievement significantly impacts the development of corporate
intranets, internal and external communications, distance learning and training,
as well as e-commerce.
“More and more corporations are turning to streaming media to
help them solve key communications challenges, such as distance learning, distance
selling, training and even e-commerce. iFinish 4 is the answer to these
challenges,” said Charlie Mascari, product marketing manager, Media 100
Systems Division. “With iFinish 4, creative professionals on the Windows 2000
platform can, for the first time, create compelling, interactive video for the
Internet and DVD that enables a dramatically new and interactive viewing experience
for their online viewers.”
iFinish 4: Interactive Streaming Creation on the Windows 2000
Platform
iFinish 4 brings new Internet capabilities to the corporate marketplace, empowering
in-house web designers, marketing communications and creative professionals
to develop very powerful, high-quality interactive streaming media content on
the Windows 2000 platform. With iFinish 4, web designers can create
streaming media content with which viewers can directly interact. iFinish 4
incorporates sophisticated interactive streaming media technology called EventStream,
enabling web designers to embed interactive instructions directly into streaming
media programs to trigger highly visual, content-rich capabilities, including
graphics, Flash animations and Java applications – all synchronized with the
streaming video on the web site.
Using iFinish 4, web designers can define hot spots, URL flips
and chapter marks, allowing viewers to interact with streaming media programs
by clicking on objects to gather information, launch related web sites from
the video and even purchase items in the streaming video. This technological
achievement is enabling the creation of interactive online advertising and e-commerce,
rich and dynamic training videos in which viewers can interact with video content,
and is also enabling the delivery of internal corporate communiqués across disparate
regional offices.
iFinish 4 heralds a number of technological advancements in streaming
media production, including:
Interactive Content Creation
Leveraging Media 100 EventStream technology, customers can:
- Create interactive hot spots
- Generate synchronized web events
- Author metadata for searching, indexing and archiving video
- Layer graphics separately for higher-quality streaming
- Leverage interactive features of all streaming formats, including Real,
Windows Media and QuickTime
Integrated Streaming Media Workflow
A seamless workflow, integrated within one solution enables customers to:
- Capture, edit, author interactivity, encode and publish to the Internet
- Acquire and deliver in any format, including DV, SDI, component, S-video
and composite
Visual Effects and Design
Unique strategic relationship with effects innovators, Boris FX and Adobe, empowers
Media 100 customers to:
- iFX integration
for unlimited layering and compositing
- Design 2D and 3D animated titles and advanced digital video effects
- Finish with real-time broadcast quality color correction tools
- Expand effects with unique Adobe After Effects integration
Professional Editing Environment
iFinish 4 also provides customers with:
- Instantmedia integration with the industry’s best-in-class QuickTime-compatible
applications
- DirectEdit technology for fast, intuitive timeline editing
- Ability to process audio with real-time three-band parametric EQ
- Ability to create superior quality pictures and effects for broadcast-quality
design
iFinish 4 DVD Edition
In addition to providing the industry’s most powerful interactive streaming
production platform for creating Internet video, Media 100 also provides
the industry’s most powerful DVD production workflow from within the same application.
The iFinish 4 DVD Edition is the only DVD creation system in the industry
that enables users to:
- Capture pristine video from any format
- Edit content into a final program
- Encode and preview to MPEG-2 in real time directly from the editing timeline
- Author a finished title using Sonic Solutions DVDit! Professional Edition
Users creating content for DVD production can also leverage the
flexibility of iFinish 4 to prepare the same dynamic media content for
all the major streaming formats for delivery on the Internet. These unique capabilities
provide corporate marketing and interactive departments, as well as professional
videographers with an ideal multimedia production development hub – all based
on the Windows 2000 platform for optimum integration on corporate networks
and intranets.
Pricing and Availability
The Media 100 iFinish 4 interactive streaming production systems are available
immediately in the following configurations and prices:
- iFinish 4 V20DV: $2,995
- iFinish 4 V40: $4,995
- iFinish 4 V60: $9,995
- iFinish 4 V80: $14,995
For more information on how to purchase, as well as for dealer
locations, please visit www.media100.com,
or call 1-800-773-1770.
Press Contacts:
Nayla Daly
ndaly@media100.com
508-303-4716
Karen Raz
Raz Public Relations
310-450-1482