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Discreet, a division of Autodesk Inc., today announced its program line-up for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2001 conference in Las Vegas with the launch of heatwave ™ , Discreet's new infrastructure and workflow environment that integrates Discreet's editing, effects and animation solutions as well as third party applications. As part of heatwave, Discreet also announces a strategic partnership with da Vinci Systems, Inc. to create Discreet revival ™ , an interactive and automated film cleaning and image fixing software.

Discreet also announces a new platform and attractive pricing configurations for its smoke ® and flint ® online editing and effects systems with SGI's new Octane2 DMediaPro DM2. The Discreet booth, famous for its unique design, is located in the Sands Convention Center, #S-4100. About heatwave heatwave is a unique two-fold strategy for Discreet that represents both its brand of infrastructure solutions as well as a unique workflow environment. Based on Discreet's core infrastructure products such as stone ® , wire ® , mountstone ™ , backdraft ™ and jobnet ™ ,—heatwave integrates Discreet products and 3 rd party applications across various networks, operating systems and platforms.

With the continued industry demand to increase productivity, heatwave represents Discreet's interactive workflow environment that enables broadcast, post-production and content creation companies to capture, manage, share, distribute and archive media assets for all resolutions including HDTV and film.

"Our strong momentum going into NAB this year reflects Discreet's well-received product development releases, tighter cross-product integration and steady expansion in our broadcast, post, games, animation and web markets," said Paul Lypaczewski, general manager, Discreet and executive vice president, Autodesk, Inc. "This year, Discreet is very focused on providing its customers with solutions that are productive, high-performance and offer immediate return-on-investment," said Lypaczewski. frost 2.5 frost ® 2.5, Discreet's template-based 3D on-air graphics creation and delivery system is now shipping with tutorial-style templates for designing 3D broadcast logos, animations, over-the-shoulders and lower-third graphics. It also offers streamlined integration with Discreet's 3ds max ® animation, modeling and rendering software. Prominent broadcasters including TF1 in France, Los Angeles-based FOX Sports and TechTV—a new regional network delivering up-to-the-minute high-technology news—have all adopted frost for special event and daily news programming.

Discreet and da Vinci Systems announce—Discreet revival
Discreet and da Vinci Systems unveil revival—a specialized film cleaning and image fixing system designed for broadcast and post-production customers seeking alternative methods to traditional chemical-based processes of removing dust, dirt, blotches and scratches.

New Discreet HD Pricing Platform
Discreet announces new platform and pricing support for Silicon Graphics ® ' high-performance Octane2 ™ visual workstation with DMediaPro DM2 for HD I/O and Onyx 3000 series with DMediaPro DM3 platforms. Taking advantage of real-time HD I/O capabilities on the Octane2 configuration, Discreet's smoke leads the non-linear HD editing and finishing category in price/performance.

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