Produce
Professional MPEG Audio from Cool Edit™
QDesign
releases MPEG audio filter for Cool Edit™
Vancouver, BC Canada - December 1st, 1998 - QDesign Corporation,
a leading provider of audio compression technologies and Syntrillium Software
Corporation, the makers of Cool Edittm and Cool Edit Pro™, announce
the release of the QDesign MPEG Audio Encode and Decode filters for Cool
Edit™ users. The QDesign MPEG filters for Cool Edittm will allow
audio professionals in the broadcast and new media industries to easily
save their Cool Edittm session directly into an MPEG-audio file for storage
and transmission. Audio encoded at less than 20 percent of its original
file size offers indistinguishable difference in quality to its CD source.
"Fast, high-quality audio compression is a crucial feature for our customers,"
says Bob Ellison, President of Syntrillium Software. "This is particularly
true for broadcast and studio professionals who use Cool Edit to edit
and mix their audio tracks and then need to get that audio to a different
location for broadcast or further production as quickly as possible. The
QDesign MPEG encode and decode software performs extremely well and produces
outstanding encoded results."
"SW Networks has used QDesign's MPEG technology in our back-end archive
and broadcast transmission systems for several years," reveals Jake Glanz,
Senior Director of Engineering for SW Networks. "The QDesign MPEG software
is the best professional audio compression software solution in the industry.
We now plan to make available the QDesign MPEG along with Cool Edit Protm
to all our studios. This will enable everyone from studio engineers to
field correspondents to have the means to easily produce and submit interviews
and reports whether it is from their desktops or from their laptop digital
audio workstations."
"Cool Edit is widely used in professional radio broadcast and multimedia
publishing. It is an amazing application that meets the needs of all basic
digital audio editing needs," states Mandy Chan, Vice-President of Marketing
at QDesign. "The QDesign MPEG compliments Cool Edit™ by making available
the capability to encode high quality audio from directly within the editor
without having to use another application. MPEG audio files created with
QDesign can easily be incorporated into schedulers from leading radio
automation systems because it is based on the standard for digital radio
broadcast. Audio professionals can now FTP or e-mail voice-overs to remote
locations for final production without having to output to tape and send
via physical couriers."
The QDesign MPEG encode and decode filters are fully compliant to the
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Layer II standards for digital audio bitrate reduction.
The QDesign MPEG filters allow Cool Edit™ users to easily save and
import MPEG audio files within Cool Edit 96™ or Cool Edit Pro™.
Even on lower end machines, such as Pentium™ 75MHz-100MHz systems,
the QDesign MPEG software encodes 44.1kHz stereo content in real-time.
QDesign's MPEG audio encoding and decoding technology is available for
licensing and as stand-alone and plug-in applications. The MPEG stand-alone
product for Windows 95/NT is US$299. The MPEG AudioSuite Plug-In for Pro
Toolstm 4.x is US$495. The MPEG filter for Cool Edittm is US$149.
About Syntrillium
Syntrillium Software Corporation (www.syntrillium.com)
develops, publishes and markets computer software products that enhance
individual creativity in the manipulation of sound and visual effects.
The company's flagship product, Cool Edit Protm, is a 64-track digital
audio recorder, editor and mixer. Cool Edit Pro and its 2-track shareware
cousin, Cool Edit 96, enable musicians, multimedia authors, telephone-systems
professionals and others who work with sound to record, mix, edit, and
add a wide variety of digital effects to Windowstm .wav-files and other
audio formats.
About QDesign
QDesign Corporation develops and markets state-of-the art audio compression
technologies to the broadcast and new media industries. QDesign's technologies
appear in hardware processors, digital audio production systems, broadcast
automation and distribution systems as well as consumer multimedia applications.
The technologies are used in Internet streaming, production, archive,
broadcast, and new media applications by organizations including Apple
QuickTime, Associated Press, BBC, Sony Worldwide Networks, Broderbund
and Iomega.
Contact:
QDesign Corporation
media@qdesign.com
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