9 April 8, 2002
GreatVideo!™ Recordable DVD Video File Converter
for
MS Windows™ Released.
for MS Windows™ Released.
First Utility to convert real time recorded DVD video(“.VRO”) files to 21 industry standard file formats for Editing and playback on PC’s.
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 GreatVideo!™ DVD Video File Converter for MS Windows.
Version 1.0 provides “drag & drop” conversion of “.VRO” format DVD video recording files to 21 industry standard video file formats, including Sorenson, Motion JPEG and Intel Indeo Video. The DVD Forum specifies .VRO format files for use on all DVD video recording devices. Video files recorded on DVD-RAM and DVD-R disks by DVD camcorders from Hitachi and DVD video recorders from Panasonic and Samsung are recorded in .VRO format. This format is different from the “.VOB” video format used on DVD video disks and DVD-ROM media.
Until now, there has been no practical way of converting video files recorded on DVD camcorders and video recorders into PC friendly formats used by most video editing and authoring applications. The software uses Apple QuickTime™ as a conversion platform to convert files to formats readable by most popular video editing, authoring and playing software, including Sonic Solutions’s MyDVD and 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 a Windows system, and mount the disk in MS Explorer™. Recorded video files dropped on to the GreatVideo!™ Converter utility, are de-multiplexed, decompressed from MPEG-2 “.VRO” format video files, and converted to any QuicktTme™ video format the user selects. The converted files can be used by any third party application that supports any of the 21 QuickTime video file formats, or played by the QuickTime Movie Player for Windows utility. Sound tracks recorded in PCM and MPEG1 Layer 2 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.
Advanced Features
The GreatVideo!™ Converter Utility allows the user to convert to any of the 21 video formats including Sorenson™, Motion JPEG, Intel Indeo 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.
Options
In addition to the GreatVideo! Application, the following utilities are available as upgrades:
- WriteDVD!™ includes Format UDF! Formatter, device driver suite supporting DVD-RAM and DVD-R drives, and UDF v2.0.1 file system for drive letter access “drag & drop” reading and writing to DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs.
- ReadDVD!™ includes UDF v2.0.1 file system reader to read recordable DVD video disks on a DVD-ROM drive.
- FixDVD!™ Disk Diagnostic & Repair Utility. Fixes damaged or incorrect UDF formats and recovers files to your hard disk.
Supports all Intel 486 or later PC systems running Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP. 128 MBytes RAM required; 256 MBytes recommended. 5 GBytes free hard disk space. QuickTime v4.0 or QuickTime Pro v4.0 required; v5.0 recommended.
Compliant with Industry Standards
GreatVideo! 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.
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