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Broadway by Data Translation

Broadway™ is a video capture card for the PC and the first affordable digital video system for creating full-motion video you can use with your favorite PC applications. Broadway allows users to share and broadcast special moments, lectures, presentations, distance learning at anytime, any place.

Show vacation choices Announce new products Play sports highlights Train Employees With Broadway, presenters can improve their presentations, sales people can demonstrate, trainers can teach, and multimedia producers can inspire. Whatever you can think of to do with video and a PC, Broadway can help you do it.

Ulead Media Studio™ Video Editor brings together all the different components of a video project - video, sound, animation and titles. Arrange these components, add effects and transitions, then save your video as a file, place it on the Internet, a CD-ROM or record it back to video tape.

Ligos Technology's software-only solutions dramatically expand the ability to create, share, and store digital media. Its breakthrough GoMotion video compression software provides real-time MPEG encoding, transcoding, and decoding, and its Indeo codecs offer a powerful solution for transmitting digital video over the Internet.

These high-quality, affordable technologies make Ligos a leader in the global digital video market for consumer, networking, business, and post-production applications.

Check out our Broadway Pro live streaming demo from Boston's Newbury Street

Broadway Pro is an easy-to-use video system for creating video clips that can be used in PC applications such as Web sites, presentations, CD-ROM titles, and computer-based training. Simply capture your video (from a camcorder, VCR, etc.) to .AVI and edit it to your satisfaction. Then compress to VHS-quality MPEG or to an Internet streaming-video format (VDOnet or Progressive Networks). Alternatively, capture your finished video directly to MPEG in real time, all in one step. Broadway provides its own intuitive editor as well as MediaStudio™ VE from Ulead® Systems.

Whether you choose real-time MPEG compression or not, you can select from a wide variety of compression options, e.g., QSIF MPEG for the Web, or CD-1X, -2X, -4X for playback on a laptop or desktop. Finished video can be output to videotape, CD, or Web. Single frames of the video can also be saved in a .jpg format.

Broadway includes re-distributable MPEG playback software, streaming-video compression software from Progressive Networks and VDOnet, and a two-stream VDOLive™ On-Demand streaming server. A five-stream On-Demand streaming server upgrade is also available.

Broadway Pro $699.95
w/ MS Pro 6 upgrade $899.95


New Broadway Pro™ 5.0 Adds MPEG-2 Encoding to “Video Made Easy”
Marlboro, Mass.– July 18, 2000 – Data Translation [NASDAQ: DATX] today announced the release of Broadway Pro™ 5.0, an affordable, complete digital video capture, compression, and editing system for PC video production. Designed for professionals and enthusiasts alike, the Broadway Pro PC board and software package provides everything a user needs to simply connect a video camera or VCR to a Windows®-based PC to create videos for live web streaming, multimedia documents, presentations, web pages, video CDs, DVDs, and digital archives. Broadway Pro 5.0 is a significant enhancement with the addition of MPEG-2, which allows encoding at full screen. The MPEG-2 capability allows audio and video conversion to DVD.

For advanced video users, Broadway Pro includes the Ulead MediaStudio ProÔ 6.0 VE, a complete video editing package that can be used in addition to Broadway Pro’s editing features. Ulead Systems’ MediaStudio integrates video capturing, editing, animated video painting, vector graphics, text overlay, and audio editing in a professional environment. MediaStudio Pro and Broadway Pro work together to make it easy to produce high-end video productions quickly and conveniently for broadcast, multimedia, and the Internet.

Using Real Networks applications, Broadway Pro also features live web streaming, expanding users’ capability to share, monitor, and broadcast special moments, lectures, presentations, and distance learning.

“Data Translation once again provides a complete solution for video capture and editing by adding new MPEG-2 features to the already robust Broadway package,” said Data Translation’s President and CEO Fred Molinari. “Broadway continues to add value to its package while maintaining its easy to use interface. Virtually anyone can create professional looking videos without paying the high price of professional video editing packages.” Broadway Pro 5.0 can be used for the following applications:

  • Live Streaming
  • PowerPoint Presentations
  • Home Video
  • Multimedia Messaging
  • Web Publishing
  • Computer-based Training
  • Classroom Projects
  • Distance Learning
  • Digital Archiving
  • DVDs
  • Video CDs Video Conferencing
  • Guaranteed Ease of Use

Introduction

Afraid of boring your friends and family with never-ending home videos?
No Fear! With Broadway installed in your PC, you can turn a boring 5-hour video into an enjoyable 20-minute Feature Presentation with cool transitions and music overlays. Or use Broadway to easily highlight the best parts of a vacation using this simple and affordable editing system.

Capture Video for These Applications:

  • Home Video
  • PowerPointtm Presentations
  • Web Publishing
  • Multimedia Messaging
  • Classroom Projects
  • Computer-based Training

Capture, Edit, and Compress
Broadway does it all. Grab footage from any source: VCR, camcorder, or stock video library. Then cut, paste, edit sound, add fades, and more. Broadway makes video editing one of the easiest things you'll do at your desktop. When you're done, compress to MPEG, or a streaming format, or output to videotape. There's no simpler, more affordable way to get high-quality video into your everyday applications.

  1. Capture: Connect a VCR, camcorder, or any other video source to the S-Video or composite input on the Broadway card. Full-motion video and still frames are captured to your computer and stored on the hard drive.

  2. Edit: Video and sound can be edited with special transitions and overlay effects to maximize the overall video presentation. Use Broadway's included editing software or select from many 3rd party packages such as Adobe Premiere, Macromedia Director and Ulead Studio.

  3. Compress: Broadway can compress your video when completed. This way, you can save your video for portability and reduce usage of disk space. Broadway even allows you to save video files in streaming formats such as Real Video. This allows web surfers to view your videos instantly, without having to wait for the entire file to download.

Because Broadway includes video hardware, it can compress in real time. So a one-minute clip takes one minute to compress. A software-only system could take up to 20 minutes or more to compress the same clip.

Play your video in desktop applications, on the Internet, in CD-ROMs, and even on videotape.

Broadway has both the cool horsepower and hot video application to get the job done fast. It includes the Broadway PCI card for video capture and encoding, and software that makes it sing. For advanced effects, you can use Broadway with video production packages such as Ulead® MediaStudiotm or Adobe® Premiere®. MPEG for Startling Results
In the alphabet soup of digital video, MPEG stands for the best choice for the Web, CD-ROM, and other channels with limited bandwidth. Broadway's MPEG-1 compression reduces video file sizes by up to 200:1 to conserve precious disk space. At the same time, you get stunning video quality and CD-quality audio. And streaming too. Broadway now supports video streaming formats that let you play back video in real time over the Web.

Perfect with Your Favorite Applications
Broadway is so compatible, you can drop your video right into all these applications and more.

Web sites
  • Adobe PageMilltm
  • Corel WebMaster Suitetm
  • HTML
  • Microsoft® FrontPagetm
  • Microsoft Internet Assistanttm
  • Netobjects Fusiontm
Presentations
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Adobe Persuasion®
  • Astoundtm
  • Corel Presentationstm
  • Lotus Freelancetm
Computer-based training
  • AimTech IconAuthortm
  • Corel Click & Createtm
  • Macromedia Authorwaretm
Video production and multimedia
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Sonic Foundry Sound Forgetm
  • Synergy International Hollywood FXtm
  • Ulead MediaStudio Pro
IBM-compatible PC
Pentium® 90 MHz or faster CPU (Pentium 133 MHz or faster CPU for video output)
16 MB RAM
1 available 32-bit PCI Bus slot
Hard disk drive with:  5 MB for Broadway,
60 MB/min for .AVI video,
10 MB/min MPEG-1 video,
20 MB free space for optional MediaStudio VE
SuperVGA card with most recent graphics drivers
SoundBlaster 16-compatible sound card with audio capture capability, line-in, and speakers
Note: Without a sound card in your system, you cannot acquire or play back audio using Broadway.
CD-ROM drive and 3.5" floppy drive
Microsoft® Windows 95/98® or Windows NT® 4

Broadway Pro $699.95


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