New Features in CyberLink PowerProducer 2.0, Makes DVD Movie and Photo Production Fast, Easy and Fun

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Jun. 5, 2003

New Features in CyberLink PowerProducer 2.0, Makes DVD Movie and Photo Production Fast, Easy and Fun

Taipei, Taiwan----June 5, 2003----CyberLink Corp., a leading developer of digital video software and e-learning solutions, announced today the release of PowerProducer 2.0, an easy-to-use software for producing Movies and Photos on DVDs and CDs. Targeted at the consumer level, PowerProducer features an intuitive user interface and delivers fast video rendering process with the patented SVRT (Smart Video Rendering Technology) to speed up the rendering process so that only the edited parts of the video are rendered instead of the whole video length.

Aimed at the consumers with digital still cameras and camcorders, PowerProducer 2.0 is the perfect software to store movies and photos on DVDs and CDs that can be shared on PCs or TVs. "The new version comes with even more tools that make movie and photo production easy, and highly flexible," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink Corp.

New features in this version includes:

-	Right-to-Disk Recording: to transfer DV files from digital camcorders into DVD movies directly without buffering to hard disk. This feature greatly increases transfer times and reduces hard disk space.
-	DVD Video Import: support DVD-Video, DVD +/-VR and DVD play list to import videos. Now users have the flexibility to import various video files from different sources as long as they are non-CSS movie titles.
-	Editable DVDs: the DVDs that users produce can be edited later to make new DVD titles. Allows users to work on new projects from existing work.
-	Disk Defragmentation: a helpful utility to collect empty spaces on a DVD disk to optimize disk space available on a DVD.
-	Direct DSC Support: to acquire images directly from digital cameras.
-	For the digital photo hobbyists, PowerProducer now features audio overlay and image transition effects allowing users to produce animated slide shows that can be viewed on the PC or TV.

Availability

PowerProducer will be released in May 2003. It will also be available in various OEM versions to be bundled with hardware products.

About CyberLink Corp.
Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced digital video and audio software applications 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 PCs. 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 content 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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Press Contacts:
USA: Kristen Stonecipher, kristen@sspr.com or by phone +1-888-275-5878, ext. 28.
Germany: Cornelie Elsaesser, c.elsaesser@konzept-pr.de or by phone +49-821-34 300-20.
Manal Ma at press@gocyberlink.com or by phone at: +886-2-8667-1298, ext. 303 for more details.