Los Angeles, December 4, 2001

Intelligent Assistance, Inc. announced the release of The Intelligent Assistant for Boris FX 6 another in the series of industry leading integrated help systems for the first time in a totally new, custom developed software interface that features automatic updating.

A multi-level "Help" System similar in some respects to the integrated help supplied with applications, the Intelligent Assistant for Boris FX 6 offers some significant distinctions. Instead of relying on a browser or external application for primarily text-based help, The Intelligent Assistant operates in a resizable window floating above Boris FX 6 - making examples exceptionally easy to follow. In addition to being more extensively illustrated than typical help applications, The Intelligent Assistant for Boris FX 6 offers more than an hour and a quarter of narrated video instruction. Many of the movies are interactive QuickTime, and all movies are based on QuickTime Sprite animations to keep the size small but the quality exceptionally high.

The Intelligent Assistant for Boris FX, is the first Intelligent Assistant in the new Intelligent Assistant software developed by Intelligent Assistance, Inc. This unique mechanism enables us to deliver across platforms and creating levels of interactivity never seen before in a "help" application.

As well as always floating over the application - in resizable windows depending on the function - the Intelligent Assistant software has a unique mechanism for instantly updating the Intelligent Assistant over the Internet, whether to add an ever-increasing number of tutorials and keep up with developments in the software OR to add new and improved functionality to the Intelligent Assistant software itself.

The new software adds the ability to freely distribute a trial version of the Intelligent Assistant for Boris FX 6 that is fully functional for 50 page views. After the trial is complete the user can choose purchase an Activation code, or to use a simplified version that provides follow along text-based assistance.

When Activated or during the trial period, the Intelligent Assistant for Boris FX 6 features three levels of help. Strategies are the broadest level, offering overviews of processes and providing context. Topics for Strategies are general, such as "video filters", "Shape Tracks" or "Shadows". Techniques are focused on the work that you want to get done. A Strategy on Shadows will lead to Techniques on How2 Apply Shadows and How2 Animate Shadows. Strategies and Techniques can be displayed in a larger "overview" window or smaller "follow along" window.

Tasks are the most specific level of Intelligent Assistance and always offered in a smaller window. Tasks are the level at which movies are provided, although the user always has the choice to view any step as movie or text form. The movies combine the advantage of animated visuals with narration. Seeing the exact location of controls, and how they act, while hearing them described makes it easier to learn how to perform task and makes it easier to remember: see, hear and do.

The Intelligent Assistant for Boris FX 6 is available now.

About Intelligent Assistance

Intelligent Assistance, Inc is the leading developer of Electronic Performance Support Systems for Digital Media software and is at the cutting edge of developing new ways to provide what users want to know, when they want to know and in ways that are useful to them.

Intelligent Assistance, Inc is a unique blend of professional experience and theoretical understanding among its tight operating core and has built on the experience and insight gained from more than 20 years of production, postproduction and educational experience across two Continents.

For more information contact Intelligent Assistance, Inc at 19531 Ventura Blvd #3 , Tarzana CA 91356. Phone 818 609 1091; Fax 818 609 1306. info@IntelligentAssistance.com website: www.IntelligentAssistance.com.