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To: DiViT who wrote (29360)	2/11/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

MPEG-4 and QuickTime....................................... ijumpstart.com DVD for all It is surprising how quickly the tools are arriving for low-cost DVD authoring. The arrival of affordable DVD recordable drives should spark a revolution. Already Sigma Designs reports that, in the US, applications for computer-based training, distance learning and interactive kiosks are being ported to the DVD format. Another important market is education, where learning materials can be put on a server and broadcast to schools. Sonic Solutions has added to the list of affordable tools with DVDit! - an easy-to-use tool for corporate audio/visual professionals and desktop video enthusiasts. The application is made up of a QuickTime/OMF to MPEG-2 software video compressor, a DVD navigation and multiplexing engine and a UDF formatter. These work seamlessly together to convert Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and QuickTime movies into DVD-Video files and disc images. QuickTime doesn't support MPEG-2 just yet, it only supports MPEG-1 video playback. All you need is a Power Mac with 64 Mb of RAM. The joke is that you probably won't be able to deliver it on a Mac for quite some time, although that probably isn't so important. It's a Pentium world out there. The price is $895. There's an excellent free primer on mastering DVD titles which is downloadable as an Acrobat file. See dvdit.com.