A powerful compilation of Discreet's most popular streaming software; Industry professionals elevate workflow capabilities with a cost effective end-to-end streaming solution - cleaner streaming studio.

M2 PRESSWIRE-22 May 2002-Discreet: A powerful compilation of Discreet's most popular streaming software; Industry professionals elevate workflow capabilities with a cost effective end-to-end streaming solution - cleaner streaming studio (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Streaming is becoming a ubiquitous medium for reaching targeted audiences, with more than 52 percent of US Internet users over the age of 12 having watched or listened to online streaming media. (According to Arbitron/Edison Media Research.) As the streaming market becomes more attractive to industry professionals, demand for cost efficient quality tools to deliver streamed content is increasing. Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK), today announced the availability of cleaner streaming studio - which will meet the demands of this growing market and offer new customers in streaming delivery an affordable and comprehensive suite of tools.

Encompassing its three most popular Internet streaming media software applications, cleaner live, cinestream, and cleaner, Discreet aims to enhance the workflow and success of diverse industries and applications including education and e-learning, corporate training, presentations, earnings calls, event promotions, live web events, archiving, the wedding industry and digital entertainment among others. Attractively priced with a SRP of 1,000 Euros, Discreet's cleaner streaming studio offers professionals with small or large budgets an extensive toolset and feature functionality that gives them a start-to-finish streaming project environment.

"Streaming has become an important content vehicle for companies of all sizes in all industries to reach their desired audiences," said Paul Lypaczewski, general manager of Discreet and executive vice president Autodesk, Inc. "As new customers utilise the benefits of streaming, cleaner streaming studio will give them a complete workflow solution to quickly capture, edit, archive and stream their content for both live and on demand delivery."

Discreet's cleaner streaming studio provides an enhanced and streamlined process with three key products working together to augment customer productivity and efficiency in one cost-effective collection: first, cleaner live software, an intuitive web-casting application, allows professionals to deliver live web events through integrated stream and PowerPoint presentations that support real-time media capture for archiving projects; second, cinestream software, a Windows DV based non-linear editing and content capture tool, complete with interactive authoring capabilities, allows users to easily produce compelling visual experiences for the web; and third, cleaner software, the industry standard desktop content mastering application used by digital content producers, web developers and network/IT managers, that captures, authors, filters, compresses, formats, secures and publishes media for on-demand, streamed delivery.

Purchase Information cleaner streaming studio is available this summer for 1000 Euros in Europe.

Purchases can be made directly from the Discreet e-store at http://www.discreet.com/purchase/storefront_text.html. For details of their local reseller, customers should contact Discreet's UK distributor, Computers Unlimited, on tel: 020 8358 5858.

About Discreet

Discreet empowers moving media professionals to realise the visual experience, transforming their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Its range of award-winning systems and software is developed for digital media creation, management and delivery-across all disciplines from visual effects and editing to animation, game development, web and interactive. Discreet is based in Montreal, Quebec and is a division of Autodesk, Inc, the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. Product and corporate information is located on the Internet at www.discreet.com.

Discreet is a division of Autodesk, Inc.

CONTACT: Matthew Jones/Janine Maxwell, Stewart-Muir Communications Tel: +44 (0)20 8892 9207 Fax: +44 (0)20 8892 9208 e-mail: matthew@stewartmuir.com e-mail: janine@stewartmuir.com Rachel Beckett, Marketing Manager, UK and Ireland, Discreet Tel: +44 (0)207 851 8000 e-mail: rachel.beckett@discreet.com

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