"InterVideo wanted to design a graceful DVD-making product that was simple, straightforward and powerful," said Steve Ro, CEO and co-founder of InterVideo. "WinDVD Creator is the result of that effort and represents the easiest way for consumers to create and burn their own DVDs that they can play in their living room DVD player."

InterVideo's WinDVD Creator utilizes a storyboard format, which offers pictures and thumbnails of all the different components (camera, clips, transitions, etc.) of the movie-making process so even a novice user can quickly and intuitively identify the different functions that go into a making a movie and can manipulate them with drag-and-drop ease.

WinDVD Creator walks users through 4 separate movie-making steps: "Capture," "Edit," "Author" and "Make Movie" to complete personal DVD and VCD movies.

• "Capture" guides a user through the steps involved with bringing video, pictures and music into a movie.
• "Edit" lets users edit and arrange video clips and add transitions, effects and titles. Edited movies can be saved as files or sent back to DV tape.
• "Author" walks a user through the DVD/VCD creation process using templates for themes, previews, menus and chapters.
• "Make Movie" Burns the finished movie to disk as a VCD or DVD.

Ease-of-use is the focus of InterVideo's WinDVD Creator but the software also sports some advanced features designed to make it simple to create sophisticated DVD movies with minimal effort, including:

• UniPass(TM): InterVideo's patent-pending, technology can save hours of DVD-making time because it integrates DVD creation and editing together, so that multiple rendering passes are not needed and simple editing fixes do not take hours to re-render
• DVD Video Support: WinDVD Creator can import DVD video content
• Automatic scene detection: Breaks up large video clips into set lengths or automatically break video clips at points in the video where recording stops and during scene changes
• Voice over: Uses a microphone to add voice over commentary to movies
• CD capabilities: Take music from favorite CDs for personalized movie soundtracks

System Requirements and Availability

The recommended system for WinDVD Creator is an 800 Mhz Intel Celeron processor with 64 Mb of RAM running Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It also works best with a Windows-compatible sound card and speakers, and a Video card with 24-bit resolution capability and DirectX support. Also needed for installation are a CD-ROM drive and a 7200 RPM hard disk with 10 MB of hard disc space.

About InterVideo, Inc.

InterVideo is a leading provider of DVD software and offers a broad suite of advanced digital video and audio multimedia software products that allow users to record, edit, author, distribute and play digital multimedia content on PCs and consumer electronics devices. InterVideo's software is bundled with products sold by eight of the top ten PC manufacturers, ranked in terms of sales by IDC, including Dell Products L.P., Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH, HP, Medion AG, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation. The company is headquartered in Fremont, CA and with regional offices in Europe, Taiwan and Japan. For more information contact InterVideo at 510/651-0888 or visit the Web site at http://www.intervideo.com/.