Pinnacle Annouces Liquid
Pinnacle Systems Introduces Pinnacle Liquid Editing Solution

New Name Reflects Flexibility, Ease-of-Use and Creativity Delivered by FASTstudio Products

LAS VEGAS, NV, 4/8/2002 - Pinnacle Systems, a leading provider of content production and distribution products, today introduced its Liquid™ editing solution family - Pinnacle Liquid blue, Pinnacle Liquid silver, Pinnacle Liquid purple and Pinnacle Liquid field. The new name reflects the flexibility, ease-of-use and creativity delivered by the FASTstudio products Pinnacle Systems acquired from FAST Multimedia in September 2001.

"The introduction of the name Pinnacle Liquid heralds the complete integration of the blue, silver and purple products into the Pinnacle Systems family," said Reiner Bielmeier, Business Manager, Pinnacle Liquid product family at Pinnacle Systems. "Pinnacle Liquid reflects the free flow of creativity and workflow these products bring to users. The name also underscores the new and important role these products play for Pinnacle Systems as evidenced, for example, by the prominent role Pinnacle Liquid blue has on our NAB booth as an integral part of our content creation and Vortex Network News solutions."

Pinnacle Liquid editing solutions form a family that addresses the needs of networked broadcast production. Support for the full range of industry standard codecs facilitate integration with the new generation of DV and MPEG based tape formats and advanced media management permits users to work in shared storage environments with direct publishing features to on-air servers. Bringing it all together is the Liquid editing software which offers an advanced UI familiar to post-production professionals and delivers cutting edge features such as primary and secondary color correction, dynamic slow motion and 2D & 3D DVEs.