Totally Hip Delivers LiveStage Pro 2.1 to Expectant Digital Media Professionals
Posted on 04-20-00
Innovative New QuickTime Movie within a Movie Features Allows Media Professionals to Build Next Generation Interactive QuickTime Movies
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Vancouver, BC - April 20, 2000 - Totally Hip Software today announced the release of LiveStage Professional 2.1 QuickTime Authoring Environment to an eager and
expectant group of digital media professionals. This new version contains over 140 new features including the powerful new 'movie within a movie' features, allowing
video and content professionals to deliver next generation interactive QuickTime video on the Web. By delivering this new version to market ahead of schedule, Totally
Hip continues to strengthen its position in the rich media tools market and also its leadership in interactive and QuickTime Authoring tools for the professional market.
This new release solidifies LiveStage Professional as the professional tool of choice in the growing desktop video/movie market by allowing for developers and video
professionals to simultaneous deliver completely interactive QuickTime movies inside of other QuickTime movies to take wired Web content to the next level.
"After four months of intensive development we are once again delivering cutting edge interactive authoring technology and tools to our eager growing customer base",
said Randall H. McCallum, CEO & President of Totally Hip. "Our continued strategy to deliver professional level QuickTime authoring tools falls in-line with Apple's
announcement of strong quarterly earnings as they strengthen their leadership in desktop movies with iMovie and Final Cut Pro for video professionals. QuickTime is one
of Apple's most unrecognized assets and technologies and will be one of the main drivers of sales for Apple in the next two years and our team will continue to crank
out top notch QuickTime authoring tools to compliment Apple's desktop video strategy."
Expected to ship in early June after final testing, LiveStage Professional 2.1 is available in Beta form to all current LiveStage Professional 2.0 owners.
The over 140 new features and enhancements to LiveStage Professional 2.1 include:
Support for new QuickTime 4.1 capabilities including the innovative and powerful "movie within a movie" feature that allows movies to be contained within other movies,
and the ability for movies to control other movies.
Addition of over 15 wired script actions and 50 new enhancements to QScript
User interface enhancements and fixes to streamline usability and workflow
New color track and movie track types
Extensible new movie menu to allow third party developers to expand the capabilities of LiveStage Professional
Completely new media library to further enhance the integration of LiveStage with other popular content design and creation products from third party publishers
New AppleScript commands to streamline wired movie automation
"At Totally Hip, we constantly listen to our customers and we updated LiveStage Professional to include many of the features that our users want and helps them create
more compelling content effciently," said David B. Dicaire, COO and General Manager of Totally Hip. "With the flexible architecture at the core of LiveStage Professional
we were able to develop and deliver all these new features within three months. We will continue to evolve our products utilizing the feedback from our growing developer
community and wired media experts."
"Once again Totally Hip's LiveStage Professional is the only tool to provide easy authoring of QuickTime's latest new features. Scriptable QTVR hotspots, hyper-linked
text and powerful wired sprites, and the innovative powerful new "movie within a movie" capabilities of LiveStage Professional 2.1 opens up a whole unexplored universe
for multimedia developers," said Ian Mantripp, Wired Media Training Specialist, Ohain, Belgium. "The unique way in which Totally Hip interacts with their customers will
ensure they keep their commanding lead in providing top quality QuickTime authoring tools for all levels of users."
Third Party Partners Add Value: Several third party developers have informed Totally Hip and our developer community that they are creating add-on tools and
enhancements designed to extend the functionality of LiveStage Professional. Many of these solutions from developers such as Ian Mantripp and Matthew Peterson are
available now, and new add-on tools will ship in conjunction with when LiveStage Professional 2.1 ships.
Pricing and Availability: LiveStage Professional for Mac OS 8.6 or 9, is expected to be shipping in June. The LiveStage Professional 2.1 list price will be $699.95 USD
with volume and educational pricing available. Registered users of LiveStage Professional 2.0 will be offered a free upgrade to LiveStage Professional 2.1. For more
information visit http://www.totallyhip.com/products/livestage
LiveStage Professional - QuickTime Authoring Environment is the leading Internet broadband media creation tool allowing users the ability to create, produce and deliver
interactive QuickTime content. LiveStage Professional gives developers and digital media producers a feature rich environment to integrate any QuickTime media types
and create engaging interactive QuickTime content for the Internet, CD-ROM, DVD or anywhere QuickTime plays.
Totally Hip Software's mission is to add interactivity to the Web. The company founded in 1995, is a leading developer and marketer of interactive Web development tools.
These include the award-winning LiveStage Professional; LiveStage and WebPainter products that empower users to develop produce and deliver the most engaging
experience on the Web. The Company is traded on the Canadian Venture Exchange (Trading Symbol: THW). (c) 2000 Totally Hip Software Inc.
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TOTALLY HIP SOFTWARE INC.
Per: "Randall McCallum"
Randall H. McCallum, CEO & President
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