For Immediate Release

HEURIS Ships MPEG Power Professional(TM) version 2.5

Upgrade delivers significant speed enhancements and better quality

St. Louis, MO, December 5th, 2001 - HEURIS, makers of the most widely used
professional MPEG encoder, MPEG Power Professional(TM), today announced they

are shipping version 2.5 of MPEG Power Professional. This software upgrade is
up to 50 percent faster than the 2.0 version, provides higher resolution
scaling,
improved handling of titles and improved vector matching resulting in improved
handling of high speed video and panoramic pans. A host of other new
features help make MPEG Power Professional 2.5 the most comprehensive and
fully featured MPEG encoding software package available.

MPEG Power Professional 2.5 runs significantly faster, allowing users to
encode their projects in a fraction of the time previously required. But
this increase in speed does not come at the expense of image quality. In
fact, MPEG Power Professional 2.5 includes features that offer overall
image quality enhancements and new image processing capabilities. Users no
longer have to make the choice between quality and speed - both can be
achieved using MPEG Power Professional.

MPEG Power Professional 2.5 also provides better DV support on Macintosh,
directly supports DirectX on PCs, includes AC-3 muxing abilities in DVD
version as well as a more efficient transport multiplexer. In addition, the
new MPEG Power Professional is shipping without a security key or dongle.

"Once again, HEURIS has developed the most powerful and fully featured MPEG
encoding software package on the market," says Brian Quandt, President of
HEURIS. "MPEG Power Professional 2.5 not only gives our users higher
quality encoding at faster speeds than ever before, but also many advanced
encoding options, including the ability to easily take advantage of DVD
technology without the need for the security key. And as usual, we stand
firmly behind our software products with some of the best technical support
teams in the industry."

Pricing and Availability

MPEG Power Professional 2.5 is available directly from HEURIS and through
dealers and distributors. Current MPEG Power Professional customers may be
eligible for discounts on the upgrade to MPEG Power Professional 2.5.
HEURIS is currently taking preorders for the software that is expected to
ship November 15, 2001.

About HEURIS

Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS is the developer of the most
widely used professional software MPEG encoder, MPEG Power
Professional(TM). This award-winning, cross-platform software product is
the first MPEG encoder to deliver the features and encoding quality
demanded by professionals, without the expensive hardware. MPEG Power
Professional is used by professional video editors and other creators of
digital content to convert video, film, animation, special effects and
graphics clips into MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams. MPEG is used with CD-ROMs,
DVDs, video kiosks, and over the Internet. HEURIS has been working with
MPEG since 1991, and its customers include: The Colorado Rockies, Sea
World, The Mirage hotel in Las Vegas, the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, Taco
Bell Corporation, The Home Depot, AT&T Labs, IBM, Boeing, Vanderbilt
University, Boston Museum of Science and the U.S. Military. HEURIS can be
found on the World Wide Web at (http://www.heuris.com/)
http://www.heuris.com