Optibase releases high-end MPEG-2 encoding platform

Optibase has announced that MPEG MovieMaker 200S, its high-end MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 encoding board, has been released with support for the Power Mac G4, G5 and Mac OS X.
MPEG MovieMaker 200S enhances the creation of DVD, SVCD and VCD content. With the release of MPEG MovieMaker 200S for the Macintosh, content-creation and video professionals can now benefit from Optibase's extensive experience in MPEG encoding. MPEG MovieMaker 200S for the Macintosh complements DVD Studio Pro, Apple's DVD authoring solution, as well as the other main SVCD/VCD authoring tools on the market.
The powerful combination of Optibase's encoding platform and DVD Studio Pro improves the efficiency of the authoring environment by speeding up the encoding phase and allowing content creators to focus their efforts on the creative process.
Boaz Gruener, Vice President Marketing at Optibase’s Video Technologies Business Unit, said: "Optibase is excited to be able to offer its MPEG-2 encoding platforms to the Macintosh community. With the new MPEG MovieMaker 200S, DVD content creators can now produce top quality video with one of the leading MPEG encoding platforms available in this market. MPEG MovieMaker 200S for the Macintosh was designed to complement Apple's DVD Studio Pro, facilitating a streamlined DVD authoring workflow, making it faster to create DVD and SVCD/VCD content in the Macintosh environment."
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