Taipei, Taiwan----December 7, 2001----CyberLink Corp., a leading software developer of digital video entertainment applications and e-training solutions, today announced that PowerDirector, its popular video editing software application, has been selected by leading add-on card manufacturer Sigmacom for inclusion with the CyberStudio IEEE 1394 Fire Wire Card.

PowerDirector is world-renowned for its video editing speed and simplicity allowing any user to edit their own videos on the PC. Starting in September, the CyberStudio IEEE 1394 Fire Wire Card included PowerDirector as part of its software bundle. This combination delivers trouble-free PC connectivity of digital cameras and DV camcorders, along with the ideal solution for video editing supporting popular MPEG-1 & 2, AVI and WMV video file formats.

"This agreement with Sigmacom is a perfect example of PowerDirector adds tremendous value to computer hardware products designed to improve multimedia performance on the PC," stated Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink Corp. "With the growing popularity of IEEE 1394, Sigmacom's CyberStudio bundled with PowerDirector brings the savvy consumer a complete package for upgrading their existing PCs to take advantage of today's most popular digital media formats."

"Sigmacom is proud to offer the CyberStudio, bringing consumers an advanced, competitively priced IEEE 1394 card bundled with advanced video editing tools that any user can easily benefit from," said Charlie Shin, Marketing Director at Sigmacom. "PowerDirector allows for video content recorded from DV camcorders to be easily imported to the PC via the CyberStudio IEEE 1394 Card, and features an intuitive user interface for fast and simple video editing to produce professional looking videos in highly-compressed MPEG-1 & 2 video ideally suited for making VCDs and DVDs."

About CyberStudio
From Sigmacom, a leading add-on card manufacturer, CyberStudio features compact and efficient design with ability to input video to your PC from virtually any digital camera or DV camcorders via IEEE 1394 (Fire Wire) connections. The CyberStudio includes PowerDirector, a complete video editing software solution, that is able to capture DV-AVI to MPEG-1 & 2 formats in real-time. Only requiring CPUs of 450 MHz or faster, the CyberStudio is able to transfer DV video to the PC at 100 Mbit/sec to 400Mbit/sec.

About PowerDirector
PowerDirector is a powerful video editing software program designed with speed and simplicity in mind to allow even the novice user to produce professional-looking videos. Derived from CyberLink's MPEG-video core technology, PowerDirector offers a breakthrough production technique called Smart Video Rendering Technology (SVRT). This allows PowerDirector to render edited video faster than other video editing software programs, and unlike other programs, SVRT won't degrade the original quality of video segments where effects have not been applied. In addition, PowerDirector offers superb special effects and an easy to use storyboard interface. Plus, with the ability to input video from DV, and output to numerous formats, it is a complete end-to-end video editing solution for the PC.

About CyberLink Corp.
Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced digital video and audio software products to market. The products are categorized into two major lines: Digital Video Entertainment and E-Training Solutions. Digital Video Entertainment products focus on providing video/audio playback and recording capabilities on the personal computer. These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions for turning today's mainstream computers into powerful home theaters and digital video centers. The company's E-Training Solutions offer breakthrough technologies to stream and manage high-quality, media-rich contents over corporate intranets or the Internet. As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability, CyberLink became a public company in October of 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region including Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei and its Web site is located at www.goCyberlink.com.

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