October 17, 2002

DISCREET SHIPS CLEANER 6 FOR MAC

SAN FRANCICO - Discreet (www.discreet.com) is now shipping Cleaner V.6.0 for Mac priced at $599 or as an upgrade for $179.

Version 6 supports Quicktime, RealMedia, Windows Media and Kinoma formats and includes 150 presets for encoding video and more that 50 professional filters and correction tools. New features include supports for MPEG-4 and Advanced Audio Coding audio compression; new 2-pass variable bit rate encoding for MPEG-2 for DVD authoring; Watch Folders that allow users to encode work directly from an NLE from the desktop or across a network; and optimization for the G4 Velocity Engine and improved dual processor support.