Media 100 and Undergroundfilm.com Partner to Support Independent Filmmaker Community On the Internet

Business Wire, Dec 1, 1999

MARLBORO, Mass. and NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 1999--

Media 100 and Intergraph Computer Systems Sponsor Contest to Promote

Independent Filmmaking and the Internet

Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ:MDEA), a leader in streaming media and digital video solutions, and Intergraph Computer Systems today announced they have joined forces to provide a powerful streaming media production system as a give-away to promote independent filmmakers on the Internet. As part of its charter to bring streaming media production solutions to new Internet markets, Media 100 is partnering with Undergroundfilm.com to support one of the hottest growth segments for streaming media - the independent filmmaking community. The give-away, a complete streaming media production package valued at $7,600, was conceived to celebrate the recent launch of Undergroundfilm.com, the Internet's first web community dedicated to the exhibition and distribution of independent films, as well as the creation of the Internet's first online meeting ground for film fans and working filmmakers. Filmmakers submitting work to Undergroundfilm.com are automatically entered to win, and one will be selected at random and announced on the site on December 2nd, 1999.

"Media 100 is taking indie filmmakers by the hand and catapulting them into the world of streaming media on the Internet, and this award is designed to kick-start their efforts," said John Molinari, chief executive officer of Media 100. "This award will provide an aspiring filmmaker with the tools to create and edit a film, and then make it available where next-generation audiences are gathering -- the Internet."

"Our mission is to create an online film community," says Adrien Glover, co-founder and executive content editor of Undergroundfilm.com. "In addition to providing an exciting entertainment space for the 'wired' public, we want to serve as an open forum for independent filmmakers worldwide, a sector of the creative community that has little or no access to the traditional tools of film distribution. This award will be the first of many to support that community."

"Intergraph is committed to empowering video professionals with the latest high-performance digital technologies that were once only available to a select few," said Jeff Edson, president of ViZual Computing at Intergraph Computer Systems. "This combination of Media 100 innovation and the TDZ 2000 gives digital video content creators what they need most - affordability, performance, expandability and guaranteed compatibility with the industry's most powerful digital video hardware and software."

Key Innovations Provide Powerful Streaming Tools for Filmmakers

Intended to encourage independent work and the burgeoning digital film movement, Media 100 and Undergroundfilm.com will provide one filmmaker a Finish(tm) V20 DV editing system from Media 100 and Media Cleaner(R) Pro 4.0 from Terran Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media 100. The winner will also receive an Intergraph TDZ 2000 Video Workstation with dual 333Mhz Pentium II Processors, 128Mbs of RAM and a 4.3 GB hard drive. Components of the streaming media production system include:

Finish V20 DV

Finish V20 DV is a complete content creation and delivery system for video professionals striving to create broadcast quality programs with video, audio, graphics, and animation. Finish V20 DV's support for QuickTime provides access to the multitude of QuickTime-based applications. Principle features include robust, easy-to-use editing, support for DV, composite and S-Video I/O, balanced and unbalanced audio, high-resolution picture quality, real-time audio cross-fades, and support for the ITU-R BT.601 standard. Finish V20 DV includes Inscriber's TitleMotion(tm) that allows customers to create graphics-based animation and composites, such as lower thirds, fly-ons, rolls, and crawls. TitleMotion also includes Inscriber(R), the award-winning character generator (CG) that has become the industry standard for Windows NT-based CG applications.

Media Cleaner Pro 4.0

Media Cleaner Pro 4 is the only cross-platform tool that outputs all the major formats for delivery on the Web, CD-ROM, DVD, broadband, kiosk, and presentation. Media Cleaner makes it easy to produce the best results in less time, which is why it remains the industry's top-rated dynamic media compression tool.

Now available for both MacOS and Windows 95/98/NT, Media Cleaner Pro 4 reads a wide range of formats and outputs the highest-quality QuickTime, RealSystem G2, Windows Media (ASF), MPEG-1, AVI, DV, still images, audio-only formats, and more. Version 4 also supports optional upgrades to MPEG-2, and can losslessly convert between formats.

About Media 100

Media 100 Inc. of Marlboro, Mass., USA (NASDAQ: MDEA) focuses on the digital content creation and delivery marketplace. Since 1993, its award-winning Media 100(R) and Finish(tm) digital video systems for Macintosh and Windows NT have redefined the digital video industry by making content creation easier, more productive, and more affordable for traditional video customers. With over 24,000 systems installed in more than 50 countries worldwide, the Company's digital video systems are used in the creation of programs for broadcast and cable television, education, corporate training, animation, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and streaming media for the Internet. For more information, visit www.media100.com. Terran Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media 100, develops and markets Media Cleaner Pro which is widely recognized as the industry standard application for preparing the highest quality streaming Internet video. Visit www.terran.com for information about Media Cleaner products.