Digigami ships MPressionist.X DVD premastering tool
updated 10:05 am EDT, Mon May 17, 2004
Digigami MPressionist.X
Digigami today announced it is shipping , which the company says is the "first and only premastering tool for DVD video picture quality for DVD authors and professional compressionists...Digigami Mpressionist.X reveals all aspects of the compressed MPEG-2 video track, including all headers and actual bitstream data at the sequence, GOP, picture, slice and macroblock layers. Key information is available as graphic overlays that can be superimposed over the moving picture, allowing the compression variables to be correlated with the actual moving picture in realtime (realtime requires 2GHz G5 CPU)." It is available in 3 flavors--optimized for G3 or G4 (both Mac OS 9/X), and G5 (Mac OS X-only). The full version is $1000, while upgrades are $500.
