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SuperMac Sells ReelTime Video Editor to Adobe
Contact:
Jennifer Delamare
SuperMac Technology
485 Potrero Avenue
(408) 773-4403
SMT.MKTGINFO
Laurie McLean
McLean Public Relations
951 Mariner's Island Blvd., Suite 370
San Mateo, CA 94404
(415) 358-8538
MACLEANPR
SuperMac Announces the Sale of its ReelTime™ Software to Adobe Systems
Agreement forms strategic alliance in emerging digital video market
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- August 28, 1991 -- SuperMac Technology™ today announced
the sale of its ReelTime™ digital video editing software to Adobe Systems, Inc.
Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Under the terms of the
agreement, SuperMac and Adobe will continue to co-develop the product.
SuperMac will bundle ReelTime free with its VideoSpigot™ and VideoSpigot Pro
digital video capture and playback systems for the first 90 days of shipping.
“We are extremely pleased to be able to pioneer and develop the digital video
market together with a leader like Adobe,” said Michael McConnell, president of
SuperMac. “It has been a long-standing tradition at SuperMac to create
software that compliments our leading-edge hardware. By subsequently finding a
strong partner to market and evangelize the software, we can focus on our
hardware strengths and together fuel market growth."
According to McConnell, SuperMac's focus on innovative hardware solutions for
emerging digital video led the company to develop application software to
demonstrate the capabilities of the new hardware. ReelTime was developed to
showcase Apple's newly announced QuickTime™ media integration system software
standard and SuperMac's family of digital video capture and playback systems.
The sale of ReelTime allows SuperMac to concentrate on hardware development
while allowing Adobe to market and co-develop the software.
Adobe Systems, developer of the PostScript® page description language for
electronic printing and publishing, plans to repeat the role it played in
pioneering the desktop publishing market, this time with ReelTime.
ReelTime allows Macintosh users to produce videos at their desktop for a wide
variety of uses including interactive training, internal communications, and
video publishing. ReelTime provides complete digital video and audio editing
capabilities with a broad range of plug-in digital effects and transitions.
Movies can be viewed on the Macintosh or exported in NTSC or PAL formats with
appropriate video cards.
“By itself, ReelTime is a breakthrough product,” said Steven Blank,
vice-president of marketing for SuperMac. “Bundled with VideoSpigot, anyone
can immediately begin producing videos on a desktop for under $1,000 — using
tools previously available only to video professionals for more than $100,000.”
Price and availability of ReelTime and VideoSpigot will be announced at a later
date.
SuperMac sells DiskFit and Network DiskFit to Dantz Development
In a related move, SuperMac announced the sale of its DiskFit and Network
DiskFit utility software products to the original developers of the products,
Dantz Development Corporation, effective October 1, 1991. During the
transition, SuperMac will continue to provide sales and technical support on
the products.
Thus SuperMac continues a process begun in July 1990 with its product
SuperLaserSpool which was sold to Fifth Generation Systems.
“Instead of spinning out the software line as a separate company, we have spun
out the individual products,” McConnell said. “The goal has remained the same:
to focus SuperMac's resources and energy on creating world-class, innovative
hardware technology that accelerates and enhances Apple's system software,
continuing to invest heavily in the areas of color QuickDraw solutions and
digital video.”
Remaining are PixelPaint and PixelPaint Professional 2.0 which the company said
it will continue to actively market, sell, and support until a definitive
agreement is reached with a new publisher.
SuperMac designs products that accelerate or enhance the performance of Apple's
system software standards. The company is a leading supplier of graphics
peripherals to the Macintosh color desktop publishing, color prepress and
digital video markets. SuperMac's products have received numerous editorial
awards for quality and innovation, including the National Software Testing
Laboratories designation as best large-screen Macintosh display system in April
1991. Its product lines include color graphics cards; 16", 19" and 21" color
displays; image compression products; and digital video solutions.
Additional information about SuperMac's digital video products and the name of
the nearest SuperMac reseller is available from SuperMac Technology, 485
Potrero Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. The company can be reached at (408)
773-4498.
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SuperMac, SuperMac Technology, VideoSpigot, and ReelTime are trademarks of
SuperMac Technology. Macintosh and Apple are registered trademarks, and
QuickDraw and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other brand
and product names are trademarks of their respective holders. PostScript is a
registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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This information is provided by the product's developer or distributor and
constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by Apple Computer,
Inc.. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to selection, performance or
use of this product. All understandings, agreements and warranties, if any,
take place directly between the developer and the prospective user.
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