Taipei, Taiwan, CyberLink, a leading video and audio application software developer added a brand new software product to its line of video and audio application software: Medi@Show. Medi@Show is a complete took kit to create and show multimedia presentations, it allows users to incorporate images, video clips, audio effects and even existing PowerPoint files into one presentation. According to Alice H. Chang, "CyberLink Medi@Show is a productivity and creativity tool at the same time. It offers the ease and convenience to create multimedia presentations that once was required to be done by computer art professionals. Now, anybody can create presentations from their collection of photographs, images, videos and favorite music."

CyberLink Medi@Show is suitable for business users to create sales presentations. It even allows users to incorporate PowerPoint files as still images or individual slides retaining the original slide effects. For the home users, Medi@Show allows users to easily collect photos and videos into digital multimedia albums. It also comes with over 50 slide transition effects and 30 animated text effects to create dynamic multimedia presentations. Medi@Show is capable of adding audio effects from MIDI or WAV files, or background music from audio CDs or recorded narration. Moreover, it offers a variety of ways to playback or export presentations such as executable file format allowing recipients to view presentations without additional software, HTML format for direct Internet publishing or screen saver to individual entertainment.

Main Features

Easy Ways to Input Images and Videos
Medi@Show supports all types of image and video files for easy integration of all valuable records and data. It also supports the TWAIN interface to input images directly from TWAIN-compliant scanners and digital cameras.

Support Microsoft PowerPoint Files
Medi@Show allows users to work from existing PowerPoint files. It is capable of importing PowerPoint files as still images, or as individual slides with the original effects of each slide. Users may add additional special effects with Medi@Show.

Manage Files At a Glance
Medi@Show includes file management tool to sort and organize video and image thumbnails. Users may sort by date, file name or file size. Thumbnail frames have color edgings for instant identification of file type.

Professional Visual Effects
Medi@Show comes with over 50 professional transition effects to add instantly in between slides. It also offers over 30 text animation effects that can be easily added over images.

Audio Effects
Users can easily add MIDI or WAV files to add sound effects, or add background music directly from audio CDs, or record narration to each slide.

Easy to use File Sequencer
Medi@Show uses easy drag'n'drop functions to place thumbnails to the file sequencer. This allows users to easily create storyboards. Sequence of the thumbnails on the file sequencer can be easily re-arranged by drag'n'drop functions too.

More Ways to Export Creativity
Medi@Show allows users to display presentations in full-screen, self-running or manual modes. It also provides more publishing ways than any other software:

EXE format for direct presentation playback without requiring additional software

HTML format for direct Internet publishing

FLM Medi@Show proprietary format to be viewed via Medi@Show

Screen Saver format Desktop wall paper format

Lots of Goodies
The complete package comes bundled with over 100 royalty-free images, video clips and audio clips. Sample and template files are also available to inspire new creations.

Multimedia File Support
Medi@Show supports the following file formats:

Video: AVI, MPG, MPEG, DAT

Audio: WAV, MIDI, Audio CD track

Image: JPEG, JPG, CMP, TIFF, BMP, ICO, CUR, PCO, DCX, PCD, DIC, WMF, PSD, PNG, TGA, EPS, RAS, WPG, PCT, CMP

PowerPoint Files

Availability
The package version of CyberLink Medi@Show will commence shipment by end of April. It will be available through CyberLink's worldwide distributors and dealers. The electronic version of CyberLink Medi@Show is now available for online purchase through CyberLink's web site. User's are welcome to download a free trial version to try to powerful functions for Medi@Show

System Requirements
Pentium 166MMX or higher
At least 32MB RAM
At least 10MB HDD space
Windows 95 or Windows 98

Free Trial Version is available at www.cyberlink.com.tw Programs are available for press evaluation. Please contact Manal Ma at manal_ma@cyberlink.com.tw. Phone: +886-2-8667-1298 for more detail.