Incite Certifies Rorke’s ImageSAN™ File Sharing App
Solution Brings Multi-User Real-Time FX and Advanced Compositing Features to SAN
environments

Amsterdam, Netherlands (September 12, 2003) – Expanding the company’s offering for the broadcast market, Rorke Data, together with its sister company Bell Microproducts Europe BV (both subsidiaries of San Jose-based Bell Microproducts, Inc. -- NASDAQ:BELM), and Incite Multimedia Corporation, Inc. announced today at the International Broadcaster’s Consortium (IBC) 2003, Rorke Data (Hall 7, Stand 711), that Incite’s state of the art non-linear editing (NLE) and post production solution, Incite Editor E3, has been authorized for immediate integration with Rorke’s highly regarded ImageSAN™ Storage Area Network (SAN) solution.

The unique media management capabilities of Incite’s Editor 3 give professional video editors an intuitive interface and extensive feature set including 3D software effects and multi-layer mixing capabilities providing an editing environment based on open file format, transparent workflow and a versatile database architecture. Integrated with Rorke’s ImageSAN, video professionals experience flawless file format exchange between heterogeneous broadcast server platforms
allowing users to collaborate more efficiently and effectively. “Incite Editor 3 is one of the most intuitive, feature-rich NLE solutions on the market today offering professionals a real-time toolkit for a broad range of instant video/audio FX, 3D FX,
animated titling, graphics capabilities and more,” said Tony Rieder, President of Incite Multimedia Corporation. “With the open Incite architecture, editors can use Incite media management tools to browse and preview native files directly from the SAN, even during acquisition, and then insert clip selections to the Incite timeline with a simple drag and drop. Combined with Rorke Data’s ImageSAN,” Rieder continued, “broadcasters have transparent access to shared files, optimized workflow and immediate access and interchange for even greater file sharing capabilities in cooperative work environments.”In a non-linear editing environment, Professionals have fast, transparent access to shared storage of media, graphics and effects, both local and network. ImageSAN works seamlessly with Incite Editor 3, allowing users to collaborate more efficiently and effectively without the time consuming process of copying and moving data to individual workstations. “Incite Editor 3 streamlines each step of production without compromising features or the end result,” said Joe Rorke, Vice President of Marketing, for Rorke Data. “Advanced media management capabilities ensure full metadata control while offering multiple bin views and multiple clip `search and play’ functions. Paired with ImageSAN,” continued Rorke, “users have the flexibility and ease of use to modify and leverage workflow specific to content creation, distribution, and output in an open architecture.”isit Rorke Data’s Booth at IBC,

September 12 th -16 th 2003, RAI Convention Center, Amsterdam and see how ImageSAN enables end-to-end storage workflow, from ingest and edit, to broadcast and archive.

Free evaluation available at: www.imagesan.com

About Incite:
Incite Multimedia Corporation, Inc. designs editing software used by independent editors, post-production facilities and TV broadcasters around the world. Incite’s product line offers professional end-to-end solutions to efficiently capture, cut, finish, and deliver high quality video and audio in a collaborative workflow environment. Building on relationships with leading technological partners, Incite Multimedia supplies versatile and scalable products for today's content creators delivering to TV, the web, tape or DVD. For more information visit www.inciteonline.com or contact press@inciteonline.com.

About Rorke Data
Rorke Data is a full digital storage solutions provider with expertise in Fibre-Channel RAID, SAN, DVD, tape and optical libraries, Unix, NT and Mac environments, high bandwidth networks, and related professional services. Founded in 1985, Rorke Data, is a subsidiary of Bell Microproducts, San Jose, CA, and is composed of four divisions: Medical Diagnostic Imaging, Digital Video & Broadcast, Digital Prepress & Publishing, as well as a Technical Services division. More information about Rorke Data can be found at www.rorke.com. Rorke Data is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts, Inc. (Nasdaq: BELM).

About Bell Microproducts
Bell Microproducts is an international value added provider of a wide range of high technology products, solutions, and services to the industrial and commercial marketplace. The company’s offering includes semiconductors, computer platforms, peripherals, and storage products of various types including desktop, high-end computer and storage subsystems, Fibre-Channel connectivity products, RAID, NAS and SAN storage.

The company’s products are available at any level of integration from components, to subsystem assemblies, to fully
integrated, tested and certified system solutions. The company adds value with a broad range of services including testing, software loading, kitting, mass storage system integration, and computer system integration. Trained and certified technical personnel complete each of these processes at Bell Microproducts’ ISO9002 facilities. Bell Microproducts markets and distributes more than 150 brand name product lines, as well as its own BellStor storage and TradeMark computer brands, to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), contract electronic manufacturing services (EMS) customers, value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators in the Americas and Europe. More information can be found in SEC filings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts website at www.bellmicro.com.

Safe Harbor Statement
This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, which reflect the Company's current views of future events and financial performance, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results or facts to differ materially from such statements for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: the ability to successfully integrate the operations of recent acquisitions, industry conditions, changes in product supply, pricing, and customer demand, competition, other vagaries in the computer and electronic components markets, changes in relationships with key suppliers, foreign currency fluctuations and the other risks described from time to time in the Company's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K). Investors should take such risks into account when making investment decisions. Shareholders and other readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the
date on which they are made. The company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements.

For more information, contact: Rorke Data, Inc., 7626 Golden Triangle Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55344; 800/328-8147 or 952/829-0300; fax: 952/829-0988; website: www.rorke.com.

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