Totally Hip Software Announces Support for
MPEG-4 Video and Audio Streams within Interactive Content

Posted on February 12, 2002

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Beverly Hills, California - February 12, 2002 - Totally Hip Software announces support for MPEG-4 video and audio streams. With QuickTime's adoption of the industry standard MPEG-4 streaming technology, Totally Hip Software's LiveStage Professional will be fully capable of authoring interactive QuickTime content using ISO compliant MPEG-4 video and audio streams with the upcoming release of QuickTime 6.

QuickTime's inclusion of ISO compliant MPEG-4 audio and video streams finally allows content producers everywhere to deliver standard high quality video and audio streams without committing their assets to a particular proprietary format. As the industry's leading interactive video authoring tool, LiveStage Professional will expands its dominance in this arena by enabling all its developers to deliver interactive video using ISO compliant MPEG-4 audio and video streams immediately.

"QuickTime's support for ISO compliant MPEG-4 audio and video streams is the announcement that Totally Hip Software and our developers have been waiting for.", said David Gratton, Vice President, Marketing and Sales for Totally Hip Software. "LiveStage Professional developers will be able to add industry standard MPEG-4 streams into their interactive projects without having to rely on proprietary third party codecs. This is a tremendous benefit to QuickTime developers and the entire digital video industry as a whole."

All registered owners of LiveStage Professional 3.0 will be able to author interactive movies using ISO compliant MPEG-4 video and audio streams once QuickTime 6 is released. To learn more about interactive video using MPEG-4 contact Totally Hip Software at mpeg4@totallyhip.com or sign up for the Totally Hip MPEG-4 talk list on the Totally Hip website.

For more information visit the Totally Hip Software website at www.totallyhip.com, e-mail info@totallyhip.com, or visit the Totally Hip booth at QuickTime Live! and see a demo of LiveStage Professional in action.

Totally Hip Software's mission is to develop software, enterprise solutions, and services to effectively produce and deliver digital media-based solutions as an interactive video format, and to ensure our software products are compatible with and complement established media file formats, platforms, and standards. Totally Hip Software was founded in 1995 and is an award winning developer of interactive Web development technologies.

Totally Hip Software Inc.
Per: "David B. Dicaire"
David B Dicaire, CEO & President

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