Terran Interactive, a subsidiary of Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ: MDEA), today announced two upgrade options for their new interactive streaming media design solution, Cleaner 5. The two new cross-platform options, Cleaner MPEG Charger and Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger, provide optimized media encoding options for DVD, Video CD, CD-ROM and digital broadcasting right out of the box. Cleaner MPEG Charger is a software-based MPEG encoding plug-in for Cleaner 5, providing comprehensive control over MPEG-2 encoding and enhanced MPEG-1 support including variable bit rate encoding.
With these added features, media professionals will be able to turn all popular video, audio and animation file formats into MPEG streams for high-quality delivery via various mediums.

Cleaner MPEG Charger features: Enhanced MPEG-1 encoding, complete MPEG-2 encoding; support for one- and two-pass variable bitrate (VBR) encoding for best possible quality at any bitrate; settings for all popular MPEG encoding situations for great results in minutes; customization for virtually all aspects of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding; MPEG encoding directly from Cleaner 5; direct export from many popular video editing systems.

Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger features: an additional single slot PCI board for accelerated MPEG-2 encoding within Cleaner 5; complete MPEG-2 encoding; support for one-pass variable bitrate (VBR) encoding; settings for all popular MPEG encoding situations; customization for virtually all aspects of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding; MPEG encoding directly from Cleaner 5; direct export from many popular video editing systems.

Cleaner MPEG Charger and Supercharger will be available in late 2000 as add-on options for Cleaner 5 directly from Terran Interactive and through selected resellers worldwide. Cleaner 5, also be available in October, will retail for $599. Charger and Supercharger will be available for $499 and $999 respectively.