Avid ships Avid ePublisher

Avid Technology, Inc. has announced that Avid(R) ePublisher, an all-in-one streaming media publishing application, is now shipping. Using a simple drag-and-drop interface, Avid ePublisher creates full-screen web experiences in which multiple elements on a web page are synchronized with the video.
This web video solution allows professional communicators to easily create and deliver their interactive multimedia content directly to the most popular digital formats: Web, CD and DVD. Pricing begins at $550.

Avid ePublisher, the first product of its kind, lets users easily create and publish interactive web content combining streaming video with HTML content (graphics, images, URLs, animations, etc.). ePublisher combines traditional video editing with Avid’s new Link & Sync(TM) interactive editing capability, as well as an innovative, profile-based encoding and publishing technology that allows users to create a single project and publish it to a variety of digital formats (Web, CD and DVD) at the push of a button.

“With Avid ePublisher, professional communicators can now harness the full power of the Web for their video streaming content,” said Alan Hoff, product manager for ePublisher. “It will eliminate the multi-step, multi-tool process these new media content producers typically employ to create this type of video-enhanced, HTML-based interactive content. Because ePublisher creates HTML-based content, it is easy to publish this content to the Web, CD or DVD for applications like eLearning, Corporate Communications and other Video-On-Demand (VOD) uses.”

Key features
Link & Sync(TM) Editing: With drag-and-drop ease, this unique, timeline-based feature enables users to synchronize the video with elements in other frames of a web page including graphics, slides animations and other HTML content imported from popular editing and presentation tools. The application can also create a table of contents to navigate to any points in the video. An integrated web layout viewer enables users to view their work and easily experiment with different format and designs in real time.

Create it once and deliver it everywhere at the push of a button: Avid ePublisher allows users to create a single project and deliver it to the Internet, the corporate Intranet, CD and DVD. A profile-driven wizard makes delivery push button-easy. Users can publish to multiple digital media formats including the Windows Media(TM) format, RM from RealNetworks, Inc., QuickTime(R) and MPEG-1 & 2. In addition, this feature enables easy posting to AvidProNet.com or other video hosting sites.

Video Editing: ePublisher offers basic video editing features in an easy-to-understand user interface. Timeline editing enables users to use simple drag-and-drop techniques to cut, paste and trim video clips, add titles, audio (narration and music), and more than 50 different transition effects.

Easy Video Capture: Users can capture video directly from a digital or analog camera or deck or simply import it from any other video source (e.g., a third party video editor). Optional USB analog video capture devices will enable users to capture video directly into any USB-enabled desktop or laptop PC.

Availability and pricing
Avid ePublisher is currently available in North America and Canada directly from Avid, through Avid authorized resellers, as well as through Avid’s newly launched Web Store via http://www.avid.com/. Worldwide availability is planned for the first half of 2001. This new product is available in two versions:

Avid ePublisher Software Edition - $550: This software-only version supports DV capture via a Microsoft OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 port, and analog capture via an Osprey(R)-100 CI analog capture card.

Avid ePublisher USB Edition - $625: This version includes the ePublisher software as well as a USB video capture device. It supports DV capture via a Microsoft OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 port, and analog capture via an Avid-supplied USB capture device or an Osprey(R)-100PCI analog capture card.

System requirements
The Avid ePublisher software will be available for the Windows 98 and the Windows 98SE operating systems with an Intel Celeron, Pentium II or higher processor or an equivalent processor with MMX support. Digital video capture is supported through native or third party IEEE 1394 cards, which are Microsoft OHCI compliant.

Analog video capture is supported through either the Avid-supplied USB video capture device or through an Osprey 100 PCI capture card available, from ViewCast.com’s Osprey Technologies Division.

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