Released on = March 23, 2006, 2:34 am

Press Release Author = Blue Pacific Software

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Turbine Video Encoder creates universal Flash video for the
Web.

Press Release Body = Blue Pacific Software announced today Turbine Video Encoder
Version 2.0. TVE 2 publishes video to the web. More than converting video to the
universal Flash format, TVE 2 can bring magic into video with beautiful and
sophisticated Flash video players, stunning visual FX, useful captioning and audio
mixing capabilities.

Turbine Video Encoder 2 includes the following features:
* Beautiful and Fully-Customizable Players: Enhance your video with a wealth of
professionally designed and fully customizable Video Players.
* Includes a Wide Range of Visual Effects: Inject new life into your video by
using the more than 65 included FreeFrame Visual Effects.
* Avoid Codec Hell: By publishing to Flash Video format, over 98% of internet
users will be able to see your video in their web browsers: codec hell is a thing
of the past.
* Titles and Subtitles: Add text captions like titles and subtitles to create
enhanced video experiences.
* Place a Logo or Watermark over your Video: A solid or transparent image can be
placed over the video for watermarking, media branding or other purposes.
* Audio Recording: Record and mix your voice comments into the encoded video. Or
mix-in an external audio file.
* Power with Simplicity: Publishing your video can be done in three simple steps.
And more advanced users can customize other delicate aspects of the audio and
video encoding.
* Easy to Use Friendly Video Timeline: Browse source video and select the encoding
interval in an easy-to-use Timeline interface. Player customizations can be
interactively previewed.
* Video Cropping: Use cropping to define the video area which is really important
to display.
* Batch Encoding: Automatically convert several videos in an easy to use batch mode.
* Convert Video and Audio from Virtually any Format: All the common video and
audio formats are accepted by TVE2: Windows Media (AVI, WMV, ASF, WMA, WAV, using
any AVI/WM codecs like DIVX, XDIV, etc.); QuickTime (MOV, QT, DV, AAC, AIF/AIFF,
using any QuickTime codecs); MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3); Mobile phone
formats (3GP, 3G2).
* State of the Art Encoding Methods: Besides CBR (Constant Bit Rate), TVE 2 also
supports VBR (Variable Bit Rate, 1 and 2 pass) video encoding and the
crystal-clear Constant Quality encoding.
* FLV and SWF Flash Formats: Create FLV Flash Video which can be played in the
Flash Player, streamed through Adobe-Macromedia's Flash Media Server, or imported
into the Flash authoring tool. For maximum compatibility TVE 2 also creates Flash
6+ files in SWF format.
* Advanced Motion Estimation: TVE 2 uses optimized Motion Estimation techniques to
improve video quality and compression.
* Full Control over Video Parameters and Quality: TVE includes useful video
deinterlace, video noise reduction and deblocking operations as well as video
filtering: brightness, contrast, gamma, white and black restore, etc.
* Video Frame Export to Image: Capture any video frame and save it for use as
thumbnail or video preview.
* Generates the HTML Page with Flash Plug-in: Saves an HTML page displaying the
Flash video player, ready to upload to your web site!

Availability
More information about Turbine Video Encoder 2, including a fully-featured
evaluation version is available at:
http://www.blue-pacific.com/products/turbinevideo

About Blue Pacific Software
Blue Pacific Software creates innovative technology that allows customers to
communicate in new compelling ways, made possible by the power of Rich Media. From
powerful Web server tools like the Turbine product range for dynamic Flash
generation, to desktop tools like Rich Chart Builder and Turbine Video Encoder, Blue
Pacific prides itself on staying at the cutting edge of Rich Media technology.
Headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, Blue Pacific is available on the Internet at
www.blue-pacific.com .

Web Site = http://www.blue-pacific.com/products/turbinevideo

Contact Details = Address: Esc. Olarias, 7-1. DT, Lisbon
Portugal

Phone Number: +351 212 251 028
Email: contact@blue-pacific.com