Totally Hip LiveSlideShow 1.0 for Windows Now Available for Public Beta Release

Posted on 07-13-00

LiveSlideShow 1.0 for Macintosh Will Ship at
MacWorld NY on July 19-21

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Phone: 604 685 6525
www.totallyhip.com
e-mail: info@totallyhip.com

Vancouver, BC., Canada (July 13, 2000) -- Totally Hip Software (CDNX:THW), the leader in QuickTime authoring and streaming media tools today announced that LiveSlideShow 1.0 for Windows is now available in beta to the general public. The Company also announces the public beta for LiveSlideShow 1.0 for Macintosh is complete, and that the commercial version of LiveSlideShow for Macintosh will officially ship at the MacWorld Expo in New York on July 19-21. The Windows version of LiveSlideShow 1.0 will ship in early August.

LiveSlideShow 1.0 for Windows (public beta release) and LiveSlideShow 1.0 for Macintosh trial version are immediately available for a free download from Totally Hip's Web site at: http://www.totallyhip.com

LiveSlideShow pricing and availability will be announced at the MacWorld in New York on July 19-21, 2000.

"With the assistance from our many customers and testers, we have created another compelling product. LiveSlideShow 1.0 for Windows and Macintosh will significantly broaden the application of streaming media and interactive rich media content for QuickTime to now include personal Web authoring, from novice consumers, to real estate listings, to photo enthusiasts and professionals online," said Randall H. McCallum, CEO & President, Totally Hip. "LiveSlideShow is an extremely easy-to-use tool that enables users to create broadcast engaging rich media experiences in minutes using photos and images, audio, visual effects and personal narration. By leveraging our award-winning LiveStage technology, we were able to develop LiveSlideShow for Windows and Macintosh to allow consumers access to the power and flexibility of interactive and streaming media through an easy to use consumer interface. Adding new features will be easy, as we continue to open up more of LiveStage Pro's feature set to consumers. In the early fall, we will release more cool tools for Macintosh and Windows in the personal Web authoring category, and they will have the same ease of use as LiveSlideShow."

Run Your Own Show! For Home and Business
LiveSlideShow for Macintosh and Windows provides home users, students, educators, and business users with an easy way to make and broadcast digital pictures and images over the Internet using QuickTime. LiveSlideShow creates streaming movies or interactive slide shows which playback using Apple's industry standard QuickTime media player for Macintosh and Windows, enabling the largest source of existing multimedia to be broadcast over the Internet by consumers and business users.

For consumers and home users, LiveSlideShow is an easy-to-use application that can create and broadcast interactive or streaming photo albums of the family, wedding pictures, personal movie images, and personal advertisements. For SOHO or small business users, LiveSlideShow is a cool application for streaming product promotions, real estate listings, product tutorials, online training guides, online auctions and photojournalism stories.

LiveSlideShow is Hip with New Users
"LivesSlideShow is very easy to use, but it is also a powerful tool I plan to use in my business to deliver proof images to clients over the Web, present web based still picture collages and even for making little web commercials. For example, one of my current projects requires a custom illustration of the client's building. So, I'll go shoot of a couple of dozen stills of the building from varying perspectives, create a LiveSlideShow movie, and have the client select their favorite perspective online before giving our illustrator the picture."
Ray Broussard, Maritime New Media Inc., New Orleans http://photographicvr.com/liveSlide/

"Congratulations to Totally Hip Software® on the release of LiveSlideShow® 1.0. I have been playing with LiveSlideShow for a couple of days now and I really like what it can do. LSS opens up the otherwise closed realm of Quicktime 4.0 with a simple straightforward interface similar to that of Apple's iMovie. LSS allows the user to compile Quicktime slide shows into a movie, complete with sprite based navigation elements and built-in effects such as scrolling text and image wipes."
Barry Wall, BDW Designs Salem, MA http://www.bdwdesigns.com

Basics of LiveSlideShow
LiveSlideShow is an easy-to-use product that creates streaming and interactive QuickTime slideshow movies from photos, artwork, buttons, voice narration, recordings, sound effects and music. LiveSlideShow includes a number of features that enable publishing a slideshow on a personal Web page or business Web site, including:

- Flexible and easy to use drag and drop user interface
- Content shelf for adding slides, sounds and audio, buttons and effects to a slide show
- Import photos and images from a wide variety of QuickTime compatible formats into the slide shelf for inclusion in a slide show
- Monitor and Preview window for adjusting and previewing slide show movies
- Timeline of thumbnail images to arrange slides, sounds, and visual effects into a movie
- Record audio from a CD collection, or use a microphone to add voice narration, or import existing sounds from a variety of QuickTime compatible audio formats
- Add sound effects, audio and narration to slides using drag and drop interface
- Add and edit title caption text with visual effects to add emphasis to each slide in a movie
- Edit and change the time delay for slides and effects
- Modify compression of slide images and sounds using a variety of QuickTime compatible codecs
- Create button images in the Button Action editor to use as interactive event actions (hyperlink events). Includes Go to URL, Play Sound, Go to Start slide, Play Previous, Play Next and Go to End
- Add persistent interactive button images (events) to a slide show allowing viewers navigate a slide show movie, play sounds, or go to a new location on the Web.
- Create and modify special visual effects. Choose from over 144 completely customizable special visual effects
- .Add stunning visual effects between slide images including full SMPTE effects
- Create streaming or interactive slide show movies
- Preview your movie at any time after adjusting the slides and effect content
- Export extremely low bandwidth engaging slide show movies in QuickTime movie format for playback on CD-ROM or the Web
- Compatibility of project files between Macintosh and Windows versions

About Totally Hip
Totally Hip Software's mission is to add interactivity to the Web. The Company was founded in 1995, is a leading developer and marketer of interactive QuickTime Web development tools. These include the award-winning LiveStage, LiveStage Professional 2, LiveSlideShow for Macintosh and Windows and the award winning WebPainter 3 for Macintosh and Windows products that empower users to develop, produce and deliver the most engaging QuickTime experiences on the Web. The Company is traded on the Canadian Venture Exchange (Trading Symbol: THW). (C) 2000 - Totally Hip Software Inc. All rights reserved.

For further information: Natalie Jacques, PR/Marketing (604) 685-6525, ext 226, e-mail: nat@totallyhip.com or Web site: www.totallyhip.com, info@totallyhip.com

TOTALLY HIP SOFTWARE INC.

Per:"Randall H. McCallum''
Randall H. McCallum, CEO & President, Chairman

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