Movavi Launches Video Suite 8 and Video Converter 9: Additional Functionality and Faster Video Encoding Thanks to NVIDIA CUDA Technology

Moscow, Russia (PRWEB) November 27, 2009 -- Movavi, a leading developer of multimedia-processing software, today unveiled new versions of its flagship multimedia-editing software: Movavi Video Suite 8 and Movavi Video Converter 9.

The company has been working closely with NVIDIA to optimize and dramatically improve performance of Movavi products when used with NVIDIA® CUDA™ –enabled graphics processing units (GPUs). The new versions of the Movavi software bring users up to 400% speed improvement in video encoding performance. In addition, the Movavi software equips users with additional capabilities to enhance their video, audio and photo editing experience.

With these new versions, Movavi Video Suite and Movavi Video Converter users now have access to cutting-edge tools to convert video (including HD), audio, and unencrypted DVDs to and from over 170 media formats, rip them for portable devices with ready-made presets (iPod®, iPhone™, Sony PSP™, Microsoft Zune™, Creative Zen™, Archos™, BlackBerry™, smartphones, cell phones and more), download and convert online video from popular video-sharing sites, fine-tune videos with a range of editing functions, burn them to CDs and DVDs and more.

“We’re glad to see Movavi take advantage of the NVIDIA CUDA architecture to make media conversion fast and simple,” said Michael Steele, general manager of visual consumer solutions at NVIDIA. “With an insatiable appetite for video and the need to take it with them on the go, consumers will now get the best VideoSuite 8 and Video Converter 9 experience on GeForce GPUs”.

Key new benefits of Movavi Video Suite 8 include:

•    Fast video conversion: Support for the NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing hardware architecture accelerates video decoding/encoding on a CUDA-enabled GPU and provides up to 400% faster transcoding. Movavi Video Suite 8 is also optimized for Intel multi-core processors.

•    Easier sharing of media files: Import audio and video files from portable devices (iPod®, iPhone™, Sony PSP™, Microsoft Zune™, Creative Zen™, Archos™, BlackBerry™, PDA/Pocket PCs, USB portable media players, USB flash drives and USB external hard drives, cell phones and smartphones) to a PC with a single click and create your media library;

•    Slideshow creation: Add JPG, BMP, GIF, and PNG images and photos to slideshows, rotate photos, enhance quality with easy-fix tools, and apply music and special sound effects. The resulting slideshow can be shared by saving it to any of the supported video formats, transferring it to a portable device, or burning it to a CD or DVD.

•    Integrated video player: Play videos in more than 170 video formats (including DVD and HD), and play online video from popular video-sharing sites on any device. Create and manage custom playlists, adding single tracks or entire folders. Play videos one by one or activate Shuffle mode to play items randomly.

•    New video editing effects: Use volume envelope to control audio fade-in and fade-out and overall volume level. The opacity envelope can be used to set overall opacity levels and fade video events in and out.

•    Disc burning: Burn data Blue-ray™ 25GB and 50GB disks.

•    Extended post-conversion options: Now users can convert videos while they’re sleeping. Just specify whether the program should shut down or hibernate on completion of the conversion.

•    Automatic video splitting: Automatically format videos by size or duration for smooth playing on mobile devices. Large files can also be split for later burning to DVDs in parts.

Key new benefits of Movavi Video Converter 9 include:

•    Fast video conversion: Support for the NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing hardware architecture accelerates video decoding/encoding on a CUDA-enabled GPU and provides up to 400% faster transcoding. Movavi Video Suite 8 is also optimized for Intel multi-core processors.

•    New format and device presets: Convert HD and HQ Video for YouTube™ with one click using any of the 30+ new format presets. Convert media files to portable devices including Blackberry, Wii and DS, Cowon, Palm, Android, HTC, Xbox360, Nokia, iRiver, and more with 100+ new device presets.

•    Integrated video player: Play any video — including DVD, HD, and online video —from within the program itself.

•    Automatic video splitting: Automatically format videos by size or duration for smooth playing on mobile devices. Large files can also be split for later burning to DVDs in parts.

•    Support for new HD output format: MPEG2-TS with H.264 codec is now supported. Conversion to FLV with H.264 codec is particularly beneficial for bloggers as the conversion process delivers a relatively small output file while retaining the highest quality.

•    Support for new input formats: Support has been added for MKV and AVI with AC3 sound, MPEG with MP3 audio.

•    Extended post-conversion options: Now users can convert videos while they’re sleeping. Just specify whether the program should shut down or hibernate on completion of the conversion.

Pricing and Availability

Movavi Video Converter 9 is available as a download at www.movavi.com/videoconverter/buynow.html and a number of third-party sites. The software is priced at $29.95 for a single-user home license.

Movavi Video Suite 8 is available now as a download at www.movavi.com/suite/buynow.html and a number of third-party sites. The software is priced at $59.99 for a single-user home license.

The applications are currently available in English only. Other language versions will be available in December 2009.

Free 30-day trials of the products may be dowloaded from: www.movavi.com/suite/download.html and www.movavi.com/videoconverter/download.html.

Helpful links:

Movavi Video Suite 8: www.movavi.com/suite/, www.movavi.com/suite/features.html

Movavi Video Converter 9: www.movavi.com/videoconverter/

Free online video converter service: http://online.movavi.com/

About Movavi Video Suite:

Movavi Video Suite is an all-in-one video and DVD software package that enables users to edit and convert audio and video files, rip them to CDs and DVDs, transfer media files to and from portable devices, download online video, create slideshows, split, capture, burn, play, copy and backup media files and more. Movavi Video Suite is used by over 2 million people in 95 countries. Users may be amateurs or professionals, educators or health service workers, government officials or non-profit volunteers. For more information about Movavi Video Suite please visit www.movavi.com/suite/ or http://www.movavi.com/suite/features.html

About Movavi Video Converter:

Movavi Video Converter is an all popular video and audio formats converter that enables users to rip video & DVDs, convert video & audio, save media files for portable devices, download online video, play videos and burn them to DVDs. Movavi Video Converter is used by over 3 million users in 95 countries. Users may be amateurs or professionals, educators or health service workers, government officials or non-profit volunteers. For more information about Movavi Video Converter please visit www.movavi.com/videoconverter/

About Movavi

Movavi (www.movavi.com) offers a comprehensive range of multimedia processing software focused on solving compatibility issues of video and audio formats and devices. Additionally, Movavi offers video editing software, CD/DVD recording software, drag-and-drop media file management software, online video applications, and customizable video SDKs for professional use. Over 5 million people in 95 countries use Movavi products for their video and audio processing needs. Partners include Intel®, NVIDIA® and more. The company provides customer service and support in seven languages - English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. For more information about Movavi, please visit www.movavi.com

NVIDIA and CUDA are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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