Canopus Announces An Affordable MPEG Editing and DVD Authoring Tool

by News Editor
Published on Dec 18, 2003 12:00 AM



Canopus Corporation announces the January 2004 release of MPEGcraft DVD, a software application that combines MPEG editing and DVD authoring. MPEGcraft DVD contains a high-quality MPEG editor that allows users to cut, stitch and mix MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video clips while preserving their original video quality. MPEGcraft DVD gives users frame-accurate MPEG editing capabilities and eliminates lengthy encoding times by reencoding only the edited segments of the video clip. MPEGcraft DVD has a suggested retail price of $99.

MPEGcraft DVD's authoring capabilities can burn directly to a disc or generate the necessary system files for future DVD authoring. With MPEGcraft DVD, users can manually insert chapter points or automatically create chapter points according to clip changes within the video.

MPEGcraft DVD supports Storm Encoder, the hardware MPEG encoder found on the Canopus DVStorm2 nonlinear editing solution, including the new DVStorm2 Pro+, allowing for realtime MPEG encoding directly from the MPEGcraft DVD timeline to a wide range of DVD-R/DVD-RW writers.

MPEGcraft DVD also includes To MPEG Tool, provides high-quality MPEG encoding options, such as multiplexing and demuxing, for existing video files; MPEG reencoding options, including upscaling of MPEG-1to MPEG-2; and DV AVI-to-MPEG encoding.