NTI Adds HD and Blu-Ray Support to Creativity Suite

NTI Corporation announced the shipping of Media Maker 9 Ultimate HD Edition, a creativity suite with added support for Blu-ray authoring and Blu-ray playback.

Media Maker 9 Ultimate HD is designed to quickly create dazzling CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs like a professional. With the brand new and usable NTI BD Maker application, you can create detailed Blu-ray movies, and turn high-resolution photos into dazzling slideshows complete with music and transitions. Families can now enjoy videos from their HD camcorder on a Blu-ray disc to share on a PC and in a home theater.

High Definition Blu-ray Video
Move up to the next generation of high-definition video with BD Maker. Beautifully designed templates make it easy to create detailed Blu-ray movies. Turn your high-resolution photos into dazzling slideshows complete with your own music and transitions. Put all of your family videos from your HD camcorder onto a single Blu-ray disc to share with friends and family.

Blu-ray and DVD Player
Enjoy the latest Hollywood blockbusters with superior picture quality and razor-sharp audio performance for the most lifelike entertainment experience.

Make HD Blu-ray Movies at Home
Support is included for M2T, M2TS, MP4, AVC to create a Blu-ray movie and entertaining slideshows. NTI Media Maker is a way to create a BD menu and slideshow under your control. Give your home videos and photo slideshows a professional look with NTI’s Cinematic functions. NTI Media Maker 9 can edit together the best parts of your videos and pictures, and automatically add transitions and effects to synchronize with your background music. Users can choose from several designs to give videos and photo slideshows a professional look and feel.

"Media Maker 9 Ultimate HD brings the ultimate in high definition home for everyday users to enjoy," said Bill Yao, NTI President and CEO. "It’s the perfect blend of power and simplicity with all the features desired by power users simplified into NTI’s Media Maker 9 Ultimate HD interface and making it easy for everyone to use."

For added value, NTI Media Maker 9 includes Video Converter to convert videos for playback on an iPod, PSP, Zune and other portable video players. With Video_TS split, the software can be used to create DVDs from the video collection stored on the user’s hard drive onto one or more DVDs without losing image quality.

Media Maker also supports Multi-Burning so multiple drives can be used to create CDs and DVDs from at the same time. The software suite also features a new Test Drive utility for testing media as well as optical and hard drives. And to optimize media storage capacity so videos can be recorded at a higher resolution, NTI DVD Fit can be used to copy only the movie, leaving out the extras. Once a task has been set up, users can take advantage of options to Computer Turn Off, Hibernate, Standby, or Log Off feature that will automatically take effect when task is completed.

System Requirements:

• Windows 7, Vista, or XP
• 500 MB for program installation
• 10 GB of working space for copying or creating DVD discs
• 50 GB of working space for copying or creating BD discs
• Graphics card capable of 1024×768 display resolution minimum

Pricing and Availability
NTI Media Maker 9 Ultimate HD is for Windows(R) XP/Vista/7 with an MSRP of $99.99. It is available direct from NTI and major retailers and online. OEM and corporate site licenses are also available directly from NTI. The software supports multiple languages, including English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.