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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LEAD Technologies Announces Enhancements to
LEAD Capture and Convert


New Version Includes MPEG support and Advanced Quality Controls

Charlotte, NC (Feb. 1, 2005) LEAD Technologies, Inc., a LEADer in video compression technology, announced its newest version of LEAD Capture and Convert. Version 1.2 offers a host of advanced features that make it easy to capture video and audio from any capture device such as a camera or camcorder and convert multimedia files from one format to another.

LEAD Capture and Convert 1.2 now offers the ability to capture and convert media files to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, giving users a variety of advanced video and audio codec options to easily complete a wide range of multimedia tasks. In one easy process, users can convert one or more source files to DVD, VCD and web-streaming formats with complete control of the size, quality and compression. Users can also modify and add effects to videos and audio during capture and conversion and control more than 40 filters and effects that include resizing, adding text, replacing any range of colors in a video stream and adjusting the contrast.

With LEAD Capture and Convert, users can share memories with family and friends by capturing home movies from a camcorder to a hard disk or they can save disk space by converting MP3 music files to Vorbis-encoded Ogg files. LEAD Capture and Convert even allows users to convert their DVD movies to any supported output format, including ASF, AVI and OGG.

LEAD Capture and Convert gives users the option to use any existing codec installed on their computer and includes the following advanced codecs:

  • LEAD MPEG-2 Video Codec
  • LEAD MCMP/MJPEG Video Codec
  • LEAD MCMW Video Codec
  • LEAD JPEG2000 Video Codec
  • LEAD Vorbis Audio Codec

Visit www.captureandconvert.com for more information or to download an evaluation.

 

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About LEAD Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1990, LEAD grew out of years of research headed by Moe Daher to find a comprehensive compression standard for digital images. LEAD is now the world-leading supplier of imaging development toolkits, providing technology of the future, today. LEAD brings to the market the most innovative and technically superior products that provide the greatest possible value for its customers. LEAD’s award winning imaging technology is chosen by Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Boeing, Xerox and thousands of other companies for use in their high volume applications and internal systems.

 
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