SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Industry Professionals Elevate Workflow Capabilities With A Cost Effective End-to-End Streaming Solution -- cleaner streaming studio

Streaming is becoming a ubiquitous medium for reaching targeted audiences with more than 52 percent of U.S. Internet users over the age of 12 having watched or listened to online streaming media.(1) As the streaming market becomes more attractive to industry professionals, demand for cost efficient quality tools to deliver streamed content is increasing. Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADSK), today announced the availability of cleaner streaming studio -- which will meet the demands of this growing market and offer new customers in streaming delivery an affordable and comprehensive suite of tools.

Encompassing its three most popular Internet streaming media software applications, cleaner live, cinestream, and cleaner -- Discreet aims to enhance the workflow and success of diverse industries and applications including education and e-learning, corporate training, presentations, earnings calls, event promotions, live web events, archiving, the wedding industry and digital entertainment among others. Attractively priced for a SRP of US $795, Discreet's cleaner streaming studio offers professionals -- with small or large budgets--an extensive toolset and feature functionality that gives them a start-to-finish streaming project environment.

"Streaming has become an important content vehicle for companies of all sizes in all industries to reach their desired audiences" said Paul Lypaczewski, general manager of Discreet and executive vice president Autodesk, Inc. "As new customers utilize the benefits of streaming -- cleaner streaming studio will give them a complete workflow solution to quickly capture, edit, archive and stream their content for both `live' and `on demand' delivery."

Discreet's cleaner streaming studio provides an enhanced and streamlined process with three key products working together to augment customer productivity and efficiency in one cost effective collection: first, cleaner live software, an intuitive web-casting application, allows professionals to deliver live web events through integrated stream and PowerPoint presentations that support real-time media capture for archiving projects; second, cinestream software, a Windows DV based non-linear editing and content capture and tool, complete with interactive authoring capabilities, allows users to easily produce compelling visual experiences for the web; and third, cleaner software, the industry standard desktop content mastering application used by digital content producers, web developers and network/IT managers, captures, authors, filters, compresses, formats, secures and publishes media for on-demand, streamed delivery.

    Purchase Information

cleaner streaming studio is available in North America directly from the Discreet e-store for US$795 at http://www.discreet.com/purchase. Local resellers can be located at www.discreet.com/resellers. For information about Discreet's streaming product line or purchase information in North America call toll free: 1-866-317-1011 or visit www.discreet.com. All Discreet product information is available at: 1-800-869-3504.

    About Discreet

Discreet empowers moving media professionals to realize the visual experience, transforming their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Its range of award-winning systems and software is developed for digital media creation, management and delivery--across all disciplines from visual effects and editing to animation, game development, web and interactive. Discreet is based in Montreal, Quebec and is a division of Autodesk, Inc, the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. Product and corporate information is located on the Internet at www.discreet.com.

Discreet is a division of Autodesk, Inc. Discreet, cleaner streaming studio and cleaner are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. / Autodesk Canada Inc. in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

    (1) According to Arbitron/Edison Media Research

CONTACT:          Discreet Public Relations
                  Kevin G Clark, 415/547-2457
                  Senior Manager of Corporate Communications
                  kevin.g.clark@autodesk.com
                  or 
                  Access Communications
                  Lindsay Stewart, 415/844-6217
                  lstewart@accesspr.com

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