Bothell Wash.—9 July 2003
SAI releases GreatVideo!™ v2.0 Recordable DVD Video File Converter for Apple Mac OS X
Software reads and converts “VR” format DVD Video Recorder Discs to 21 QuickTime™ compatible video file formats. Masters DVD Video Discs on all types of recordable DVD Drives.
Software Architects, Inc.,the world’s first and leading supplier of disk drive utilities that use the Universal Disk Format (UDF), announced its release of GreatVideo!™ DVD Video File Converter v2.0 for Apple PowerMac™ systems running OS X. .
Using Consumer DVD Video Recorders with Mac OS Systems
GreatVideo! provides everything you need to download, convert and use video files recorded from consumer DVD video recorders and camcorders on an Apple™ computer system. DVD video recorders record live video to the VR file format (a slightly different format than the DVD Movie format that is incompatible with the Apple UDF reader). The VR format is specified by the DVD Forum for video recording on consumer recordable DVD devices.
GreatVideo! is the first software application in the world to mount, read and copy recordable VR formatted DVD discs on a Mac system, and convert the contents to QuickTime™ video formats for editing, authoring and mastering on a Mac system. The software is compatible with all Apple editing and QuickTime compatible third party editing software.
Three Useful Functions:
GreatVideo! provides consumers with three useful and easy-to-use functions:
- Input of recorded DVD video to Mac OS systems
- Conversion from the VR format to more usable video formats using QuickTime
- Output of video and audio files by mastering out DVD video discs that are playable on consumer DVD video players, on all types of recordable DVD devices and media. (This functionality will be available in an update in September)
Powerful and Easy to Use
video file formats, including Sorenson, Motion JPEG and Intel Indeo Video, plus many more. The software uses QuickTime™ as a conversion platform to convert files to traditional video formats readable by most popular video editing, authoring and playing software, including Apple Final Cut Pro™ and Adobe Premier™.
Advanced features include selecting the compression rate, number of key frames per second, bit rate, and color as allowed by specific video formats.
Master DVD video discs Quickly and Easily on third party recordable DVD drives
Great Video! supports all types of recordable DVD drives, including DVD-RAM/R, DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W and the new DVD “Multi” combination drives. It also supports writing out data files with the same “drag & drop” interface.
Version v2.0 supports Apple, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Panasonic, Ricoh, Samsung, Sony, Teac, Toshiba and other recordable DVD drives, using DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM discs. Video is recorded in DVD Forum compliant mpeg-2 compressed “.vob” format.
Compliant with Industry Standards
GreatVideo! is compliant with DVD Forum specifications for Real Time Recording DVD Video Files (VR video files) & DVD Video Files (.vob format), and the OSTA(Optical Storage Technology Association) specifications for UDF formats. Version 2.0 supports DVD Forum specification drives, media and formats.
System Requirements:
Supports all Apple PowerMac™ systems running Mac OS 9.0 or OS X;
128 MBytes RAM required; 256 MBytes recommended.
5 GBytes free hard disk space required.
QuickTime v5.0 or QuickTime Pro v5.0 required; v6.0 recommended.
Pricing & Availability
Price: $99.95 US. Available August 2003
For further information, please contact:
Robert Zollo, Software Architects, Inc., tel. 425/487-0122, email: bobz@softarch.com
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