Canopus Announces the Imagination Bundle

Canopus brings powerful creativity bundle to its acclaimed DVStorm2 NLE 

San Jose, Calif. (October 23, 2002) – Canopus Corporation, developers of award-winning digital video editing products, today announced the Imagination Bundle, a powerful nonlinear video editing and special effects bundle for the company’s acclaimed DVStorm™2 realtime nonlinear editing solution.  Priced cost-effectively at $1499, the Imagination Bundle includes DVStorm2, Adobe® Premiere® 6.5 editing software, Xplode® Professional 3D effects package, Imaginate™ still-image animation software, Xplode Photo Album plug-in for Xplode Professional effects software and Storm Bay breakout box.  This bundle provides editors with an unprecedented level of video editing and high-speed special effects capabilities.  The Imagination Bundle promotion begins today and ends December 9, 2002.

“The more time spent capturing, assembling and waiting for effects to render, the less time video professionals have for the task that really counts, being creative,” said Nathan Yanoff, product marketing manager for DVStorm at Canopus Corporation.  “We designed this bundle to addresses this challenge and give video professionals additional tools to enhance their creativity.”

The Imagination Bundle

DVStorm2 combines stability, reliability, and affordability with an extensive high-performance feature set that delivers render-free, realtime native DV editing, realtime DV and analog capture and output (IEEE 1394, S-Video or composite), and up to five simultaneous, realtime video streams.  DVStorm2 features a host of realtime 3D transitions and effects, including the new 3D Picture-in-Picture transition, advanced color correction capabilities, single-pass scan and capture, as well as powerful MPEG encoding and editing tools for DVD production and Internet streaming.  DVStorm2 gives professionals all the tools they need to make their productions come to life, including Storm Edit realtime editing software, two advanced 3D digital video effects collections — 3DRT-II and Xplode for DVStorm, Sonic Foundry ACID Style audio software to create compelling soundtracks and Ulead DVD Workshop SE authoring software.

Adobe Premiere 6.5 delivers unmatched hardware support and realtime editing capabilities and is the essential tool for creating video for DVD, videotape, the Web, and more.

Canopus Imaginate still-image animation software lets video professionals create animated and keyframed movements in 3D by panning, zooming, rotating, and tilting high-resolution stills.  Imaginate gives documentary filmmakers and broadcasters, as well as corporate and event videographers, the freedom and flexibility to bring new dimensions to their productions by transforming their still images and photographs into movies.

Canopus Xplode Professional 3D effects package is compatible with all capture cards (including OHCI cards) and lets users of Adobe Premiere, Ulead MediaStudio Pro or Canopus Edit applications execute multiple complex transitions and effects in near realtime.  In addition to its software-only render capabilities, Xplode Professional takes advantage of hardware acceleration through its support of NVIDIA-based graphics boards with a TNT (or better) chipset, for higher-speed rendering and processing.

Canopus Xplode Photo Album plug-in for Xplode Professional is a must-have tool for anyone wanting to showcase a series of still images or simply make a video album.

Canopus Storm Bay is a breakout box that moves the DV and analog connections to the front of the PC for easy plug-and-play operation.

About Canopus Corporation
Based in San Jose, Calif., Canopus Corporation manufactures award-winning, nonlinear video editing products for video professionals and enthusiasts.  Canopus’s DV editing, MPEG encoding, 3D DVE and video transcoding products combine innovative hardware and software designs to set new standards in performance, functionality and reliability.  Canopus Corporation's parent company, Canopus Co., Ltd., with headquarters in Kobe, is Japan's largest maker of video editing and graphics products.  The company has offices in the UK, Germany, Australia and China in addition to an extensive worldwide distributor network.  For more information contact Canopus at (408) 954-4500 or visit their Web site at www.canopus.com.

Canopus is a registered trademark and DVStorm, Xplode, Imaginate and Xplode are trademarks of Canopus Corporation.  All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.