Complete Realtime Nonlinear Editing Package at $9,990

MONTREAL - - Discreet Logic and Matrox® Video Products Group today announced a special offer that combines the Discreet Logic edit* realtime nonlinear editing software with the Matrox DigiSuite LE™ realtime editing card at only $9,900 US, a savings of $3,000. This special offer is available through the end of 1998, from Matrox/Discreet Logic authorized resellers throughout the Americas.

"This aggressive offer furthers our commitment to providing cost-effective, online-finishing tools to today's new media and video post-production professionals," said John Copher, vice president of New Media at Discreet Logic. "This product offering is a great opportunity for our customers to purchase one of the best NT-based NLE's on the market. No other NLE on the market has the full editorial feature set and exceptional realtime performance at online resolutions for this price."

"This powerful solution combines a comprehensive content creation tool set in edit* with unprecedented realtime hardware muscle in DigiSuite LE, for the ultimate in creative freedom and productivity on the NT platform," added Spiro Plagakis, vice president of sales and marketing at Matrox.

About edit* on DigiSuite LE
edit* Option 1 is a powerful media integration, editing and finishing tool, offering high quality video and audio throughput that makes it ideal for corporate, interactive and broadcast designers who require the highest quality video images. It offers an especially powerful end-to-end integrated studio environment when coupled with paint*, effect* and Kinetix™ 3D Studio MAX™. edit* Option 1 takes full advantage of many DigiSuite LE advanced realtime features including dual-stream 500 KB/frame video plus a 32-bit graphics layer; multiple channels of keyframeable 2D DVE with high-quality scaling, sub-pixel motion, and transparent shadows; multiple channels of color correction; hundreds of user-customizable transitions; independent transparency control on all layers; and two channels of advanced chroma/luma keying with chroma suppression and anti-aliased edges.