FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 November 2001

DVD-RAM TuneUp™ Pro v5 provides seamless integration of DVD Camcorders with Apple PowerMac™ Systems

Software Architects, Inc., the world’s first and leading supplier of disk drive utilities that use the Universal Disk Format (UDF), announced the commercial release of DVD-RAM TuneUp!™ Pro V5.0 for Apple OS 9.

Version 5.0 provides “drag & drop” conversion of “.VRO” format DVD video recording files to Apple QuickTime™ format. Video files recorded on Hitachi and Panasonic brand DVD camcorders can be downloaded and converted for use with Apple video editing and playing software, plus many third party video editing and authoring software, including Adobe Premier™.

DVD Video Capture, Conversion and Use, Fast & Easy!

Users can record video with the hand-held camcorder, insert it into any DVD-RAM or RAM media compatible DVD-ROM drive running on an Apple system, and mount the disk on the Mac OS “desktop”. Recorded video files dropped onto the GreatVideo!™ Converter Utility, are de-multiplexed, decompressed from MPEG2 “.VRO” format video files, and converted to any QuickTime™ video format the user selects. The converted files can be used by any Apple or third party application that supports QuickTime formats, or played by the QuickTime Movie Player utility. Sound and Video are automatically synchronized for immediate playback. The software can also quickly erase the disk so that it can be immediately re-used in the camcorder or video recorder.

Options

The GreatVideo!™ Converter Utility allows the user to convert to any of the 21 video formats supported by QuickTime, including Sorensen™, Motion JPEG, Video, and raw video formats. Advanced features include selecting the compression rate, number of key frames per second, bit rate, and color as allowed by specific video formats.

Three Products In One

Version 5 includes the following three powerful utilities:

1. DVD-RAM TuneUp: includes formatter, device driver suite supporting DVD-RAM and DVD-R drives, and UDF v2.0.1 file system control panel.
2. GreatVideo!™ Converter utility
3. FixDVD!™ Disk Diagnostic & Repair Utility

Key Features:

• “Drag & Drop” Finder integrated interface makes it easy to use
• Formats in all versions of UDF to ensure disk interchange with all desktop operating systems
• Reads and writes DVD video files in the real time recording format (.VRO)
• Converts compressed VRO video files to any QuickTime video format
• Erases disks for fast re-use of the disk
• Tests media for defective sectors
• Write protects disks for archival
• Diagnoses & repairs defects in UDF formatted disks
• Supports all brands and models of DVD-RAM and DVD-R drives

Key Benefits:

• Easy to use: nothing new to learn
• Fast: drag & drop file to hard disk, erase and re-use the miniature DVD-RAM disk fast!
• Reliable Disk Interchange with other Mac OS and Windows systems
• Seamless integration with Apple QuickTime Movie Player for automatic, synchronized voice & video playback
• Versatile: use for standard data storage applications and video recording in one simple utility

System Requirements:

Supports all Apple PowerMac systems running Mac OS 9 on a PowerPC CPU. 128 MBytes RAM required; 256 MBytes recommended. 5 GBytes free hard disk space. QuickTime v5.0 or QuickTime Pro v5.0 or later

Compliant with Industry Standards DVD-RAM TuneUp™ v5.0 is compliant with DVD Forum specifications for Real Time Recording Files (VRO video files), UDF file system and the OSTA (Optical Storage Technology Association) implementation guidelines for UDF formats.