SAN FRANCISCO–Media 100 Inc., the
leading provider of software, systems and services for streaming media
on the Internet, has announced that its award-winning Media 100 i
interactive streaming production tools are fully compliant with
Apple(R) Computer’s new high-performance, flexible and
highly-customizable Next Generation G4 Power Mac. This newly-announced
platform from Apple provides Media 100 customers with a
high-performance interactive streaming media production environment,
ideal for creating high quality, dynamic content for delivery on the
Internet. The new Apple platform debuted this morning at the Macworld
Expo in San Francisco, CA.
The Next Generation G4 provides Media 100 i customers with an even
more flexible platform for interactive streaming production. The
additional PCI slot in the Next Generation G4 provides the flexibility
for users to customize their Media 100 i systems with high performance
options, such as Power Suite, for accelerated encoding of streaming
media, or After Effects on ICE, with up to ten times acceleration for
effects creation.
“Today’s announcement sends a very powerful message to our
customer base – Media 100 continues to provide best- in-class
streaming media production solutions in real-time, by announcing the
compatibility with the Next Generation G4 simultaneous with Apple
product announcements,” said Tony Dolph, vice president marketing,
Media 100. “In today’s web-paced production environments, it’s
critical that your solutions are flexible, scaleable and enable you to
deliver the highest quality results possible. Media 100 i, on the Next
Generation G4, gives our customers an even more powerful platform to
create unparalleled, high quality interactive streaming content. We
continue to offer our customers a state-of-the-art experience on the
Macintosh platform allowing them to create streaming, DVD, and
broadcast content.”
Media 100 i recently received significant industry accolades,
including the “Vangaurd 2000” award from Video Systems magazine and
“Best Interactive Stream Creation” award from DigitalWebcast.com. A
unique interactive streaming production solution, Media 100 i enables
customers to capture, edit, author, encode and publish video to the
Internet within a seamless streaming media workflow on a single
platform. Unlike more traditional approaches to content creation for
the Internet, Media 100 i creates a new workflow paradigm for Internet
broadcasters and web designers within a single solution.
