VIDEOVUE, 24-BIT VIDEO IMAGE CAPTURE ADAPTER LETS USERS "CAPTURE AND PASTE"
INTO ANY WINDOWS APPLICATION WITH JUST ONE MOUSE CLICK.

(June 10, 1993--AUSTIN, TEXAS) Henry Mistrot, President and CEO of Video
Associates Labs, Inc. (VAL), a thirteen year old company specializing in
multimedia computer adapters says "Our design goal for VideoVue was
quality of the captured image and ease of use for the customer. During the
research phase, by talking with a number of computer graphics artists and
computer retailers, we found they could rely on only one or two
professional quality image grabbers, and both of them frequently took more
than two or three hours to correctly install and expensive third party
software just to grab the first image. They usually required knowing exact
memory addresses and interrupts, which few people can recall. And, the
ridiculous batch files! You need one for every occasion. Not so, with
VideoVue."

VAL achieved the ease of installation objective, making VideoVue a
plug-and-grab adapter. So easy to install, most of the time you simply
find a slot and plug it in, whether 8 or 16-bits, and connect your video
source, such as a VCR, videodisc player or video camera with the provided
input cable. "No settings to make in 95% of the machines we see. And, our
memory addressing scheme allows VideoVue to be used in PC's with more than
16 megabytes on the motherboard. Power users love this, they don't have to
cripple their computer and pull memory chips just to grab a few family
vacation photos into their machine for faxing to Aunt Mildred. There is no
higher quality board that can make the same claim. " says Mr. Mistrot.

"Our Australian, European, and Asian users like that it auto-detects the
incoming video standard, again, no jumpers to configure. Nor does it
require any batch files or switch settings when going from composite video
to S-Video sources. Here again, the high priced cards lose on this point,
both requiring different batch files, and one requiring pulling the board
out of the computer to go from S to composite video. You pay $1500 for
that board." VideoVue captures 8-bit color, 24-bit full color and 8-bit
gray shaded images in resolutions up to 1024x768, without any of the
hardware juggling.

VideoVue departs from these other boards on price as well, with a suggested
retail price of only $795 US, including both DOS and Windows capture
utilities, and Paint Shop Pro, a versatile image enhancement utility
allowing the user to save and view their captures in TGA, PCX GIF, TIFF,
BMP, DIB, PIC, WPG, MAC, RAS, RLF, OS/2 compatible, and JAS compressed
format files. "Our proprietary color reduction algorithm gives multimedia
presenters 8-bit files (256 color) that look like they are 24-bits (16.7
million colors) and which are fully compatible with packages like
Microsoft's PowerPoint and WordPerfect's Presentations. It requires very
close scrutiny and a trained eye to see the difference. . . and the
performance of the presentation using 256 colors is excellent, because the
8-bit files are so much smaller."

One additional feature, worth a Feat deal to those users wanting to keep
their setup simple, is VideoVue's live video preview window, which can be
placed anywhere on the screen. "Being hardware based, unlike several lower
priced capture cards' preview windows, VideoVue's doesn't slow down your
Windows or DOS application. An active preview, even in your DOS
applications, means you don't need a video monitor to see what video is
coming out of your camcorder. You make shot selections right on your VGA
monitor. "

VideoVue captures directly to the Windows 3.1 clipboard, giving a seamless
Grab-and-paste effect. "We wanted to make VideoVue unique in some
practical way, and watching one artist grab over fifty images, close his
capture program, and then go into a presentation package to inset the
captures, only to realize he didn't remember some of the images by name
convinced us there was a better way. So, we allow VideoVue to grab
directly to the clipboard. The artist can be in their presentation
program, and simply paste and size the image. This one feature can save a
presenter hours creating just one show. " One limitation of many boards,
not seen in VideoVue, is " . . . our ability to capture the whole image by
just clicking on the preview window. You get the whole video image, at
what ever resolution you choose (up to 1024x768). "

"We wrote our capture utility so that it would call another Windows
application, just by clicking the capture button. This might be Paint Shop
Pro, our bundled program, or OptiBase's The WorkShop, a handy JPEG
software utility, a database, or just any Windows application."

VideoVue is being sold through many computer retailers in the US, and
distributors and retailers around the world. "VideoVue has found its way
into medical, security, and of course, multimedia applications in some of
the finest development shops both here and abroad." Mr. Mistrot proudly
states, and "... we are looking for distributors and dealers that
understand image capture, and can tell the difference in quality and ease
of use to help spread the word. "

Video Associates Labs Inc
4926 Spicewood Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78759
512-346-5781,  800-331-0547,  fax 512-346-9407

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