Momento Turns Photos Into Movies and Makes Sharing Photos Easy and Fun

Momento Turns Photos Into Movies and Makes Sharing Photos Easy and Fun

New Consumer Product From Canopus Makes It Easy to Create Animated Slideshows That Bring Photos to Life With Motion, Music and Unique Effects

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Canopus, a leading force in video innovation, has announced Momento, the latest addition to its line of creative software tools. Momento makes sharing photos with family and friends fast, easy and fun.

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Momento turns digital photos into an exciting animated slideshow with motion effects, artwork, transitions, titles, music and voice-over. Slideshows can be e-mailed, posted on a website, or burned directly to DVD. Momento can import all major photo and audio formats straight from a memory card, and with its unique 'SmartStyle' approach, all the user has to do is select a theme and Momento will automatically add motion effects, music and transitions.

Momento goes even further -- the easy-to-use interface makes fine-tuning slideshows easy, with sophisticated image editing built in, including color correction, red-eye reduction, level adjustment and audio normalization. Momento supports standard definition 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, and even HD resolution.

"Momento is really a fun software package. Not only is it easy to learn, but it's amazingly fast for creating slideshows with motion," said Jason Edwards, an early adopter of Momento. "Momento's rendering engine is very quick as well. I created a sample slideshow to burn to DVD to check out the quality. I figured with all of the animation and effects I added it would take a while to render. When I walked back to my desk a few minutes later and saw the slideshow completed, I first thought something must have gone wrong. Was I surprised to see that was not the case! And the resulting DVD's quality was excellent. I will be using Momento quite a bit."

Momento is available now directly from the Canopus Web site for a suggested retail price of $49.99. Canopus also offers a free, wizard-based version of the software -- Momento Express -- which includes much of the functionality of the full product, but without the ability to fine-tune or burn to DVD. For more information visit the Canopus Memento page at www.momentodvd.com.

System requirements include Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional, DirectX 9.0 or later, Intel Celeron, Pentium III, Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon XP or AMD Duron processor, 1GHz CPU or faster, 256MB of memory, 200MB of free hard drive space, a 1024 x 768 graphics resolution, 16-bit color (XGA) display, and a Windows-compatible sound card.

About Canopus Corporation

Canopus Corporation, based in San Jose, Calif., is a subsidiary of Canopus Co., Ltd, headquartered in Kobe, Japan. Canopus designs and markets award-winning digital video and graphics solutions for video professionals and enthusiasts. The company combines innovative hardware and software designs to set new standards in performance, functionality and reliability. Industry leaders worldwide recognize Canopus's advanced HD, HDV, DV and MPEG codec technologies, which are featured in the company's acclaimed video editing solutions, transcoding products and network-based video distribution systems. Canopus also has offices in the U.K., Germany, Italy, Australia and China in addition to an extensive worldwide distribution network. For more information contact Canopus at 408-954-4500 or visit the Web site at www.canopus.com.

NOTE: Canopus is a registered trademark of Canopus Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: Sarah Kavanagh, Public Relations for Canopus, +1-650-726-3482, or sk@coastside.net

Web site: http://www.momentodvd.com/

Web site: http://www.canopuscorp.com/

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