miro Ships FireWire DV Editing
Solution; Special upgrade price of
$499 available to miroVIDEO
DC30 users
July 8, 1997
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. -- miro
Computer Products, Inc. today began shipping the miroVIDEO DV
100 for Windows 95. The DV 100 includes miroVIDEO StoryTools
and Adobe Premiere 4.2 LE for a low estimated street price (ESP)
of $599. The company is offering a special upgrade price of $499
to registered users of its miroVIDEO DC30 plus. This special
upgrade price is available through the end of the year. In addition,
miro will offer a full-solution bundle later this month, priced at
$1394 (ESP), that includes the miroVIDEO DV 100, miroVIDEO
StoryTools, miroVIDEO DC30 plus and a full version of Adobe
Premiere 4.2.
The miroVIDEO DV 100 IEEE 1394 (FireWire) solution for digital
video editing bridges the technology gap between digital
camcorders and desktop computers. The DV 100 includes
miroVIDEO StoryTools, an intuitive, timesaving storyboard-style
interface designed to easily find, index, organize and edit video
footage. miroVIDEO DV 100 also includes Adobe Premiere 4.2 LE
for additional digital video editing effects, and provides full
plug-and-play support for easy installation.
The miroVIDEO DV 100 is ideal for both professionals and video
enthusiasts for creating industrial, commercial and corporate
videos, training tapes and high-quality personal videos. The
miroVIDEO DV 100 is compatible with all DV camcorders on the
market today, and is software upgradeable for future DV
equipment.
miro's solution takes advantage of Sony DV codec technology,
which miro has licensed, to achieve maximum compatibility and
optimization with current and future Sony DV products. Because
the DV 100 is based on a software codec, the cost of the product
is a fraction of the cost of solutions based on hardware codecs,
and the upgradeability of software-based systems ensures future
compatibility with new processor technologies and DV products
as they come to market.
The miroVIDEO DV 100 lets users keep video footage from a
digital camcorder in digital format through the entire production
process, from shooting to storing and editing. This allows for the
production of first-generation-quality video from a desktop video
editing system. First-generation-quality video is the highest
quality video possible. With the miroVIDEO DV 100 and control
from miroVIDEO StoryTools, video footage can be scanned,
scene locations auto-indexed, and then edited. The chosen clips
can then be transferred selectively to the computer's hard drive,
sparing the hard drive from processing unwanted footage. Raw
and cataloged footage can simply be left on the DV tape.
The miroVIDEO DV 100 features an open system design, allowing
video to be captured into AVI format for editing in Adobe
Premiere. With the miro DC20 and DC30 family of PCI-based
digital video editing systems, the DV format can be converted to
MPEG for analog output.
miroVIDEO StoryTools
With a clear and straightforward storyboard metaphor, miro's
miroVIDEO StoryTools is redefining video editing software. Video
editing becomes an amazingly fast and simple process, whether
users prefer to storyboard their shoot beforehand or use
miroVIDEO StoryTools to edit captured footage.
miroVIDEO StoryTools features a production planner presented
as a storyboard. Using StoryPix, proxies which act as place
holders for video footage, within a storyboard, users can arrange
key scenes to determine what footage is needed before a shoot.
StoryPix can be dragged and dropped within the storyboard, and
used to generate flexible EDLs. Just as film directors save time and
expense by plotting a visual outline of the footage they need on a
storyboard before shooting, miroVIDEO StoryTools lets
videographers be more efficient and cost-effective by
storyboarding with StoryPix before a shoot to determine what
footage is needed.
Users who haven't storyboarded their shoot beforehand can
quickly incorporate video footage in the miroVIDEO StoryTools
storyboard as a clip database, with each clip defined by the first
frame of the video sequence. By double-clicking on the thumbnail
in the storyboard, the clip can be viewed and trimmed or
lengthened as desired, then inserted, copied, deleted or moved in
the storyboard timeline with simple drag and drop. Video can also
be easily exported to programs like Adobe Premiere for additional
effects and treatment.
The miroVIDEO DV 100 offers two external and one internal
standard IEEE 1394 connectors, and an IEEE 1394-standard cable
to the Sony DV connector. The IEEE 1394 interface delivers
bi-directional connectivity at up to 200MBit/second to
simultaneously transfer video and audio and to enable camcorder
control. The miroVIDEO DV 100 processes NTSC (720x480) and
PAL (720x576) resolutions for broadcast- compatible video. Audio
is captured in 12-bit stereo with up to a 32KHz sampling rate, as
supported by the Sony DCR-VX1000/VX700 Digital Handycams.
PC systems require a 90MHz or faster Pentium compatible
processor, one available 32-bit PCI slot with bus mastering, 16MB
RAM, 250MB hard disk space, and an 8-bit graphics board.
miro Computer Products is a leading global manufacturer of
advanced multimedia products designed to accelerate the
movement of information and ideas. miro has a thirteen year
history of award-winning digital video editing, multimedia,
communications, CAD and graphics products. miro sells to
distributors, OEMs, systems integrators and VARs through nine
subsidiaries throughout Europe, Asia and North America.
For more information contact miro Computer Products at 955
Commercial Street, Palo Alto, CA 94303; phone: 800/249-6476,
email: info@miro.com, or World Wide Web: miro.com .
miro is a trademark of miro Computer Products AG. All other
company or product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of the respective owners.
CONTACT: miro Computer Products | Marsha Adams,
800/474-6476, ext. 401 | madams@miro.com | or | McLean Public
Relations | Sarah Kavanagh, 415/513-8800 | sk@mcleanpr.com
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