StageTools Introduces MovingParts
July 10, 2003
Middleburg, VA - StageTools has introduced a new tool that provides editors fast and easy animation abilities as a plug-in to most popular nonlinear editors.
MovingParts is a simple plug-in that animates images and effects over video, directly from the editor's timeline. Designed for editors, MovingParts is fast and easy to use -- and it produces high-quality output.
MovingParts is available for the following NLE programs: Avid, dpsVelocity, Final Cut Pro, Pinnacle, and Premiere; it is also available as a freestanding version. MovingParts supports Windows, MacOS 9, and MacOS X-based systems.
It animates logos and other images, creating animatics, highlighting action, blurring or pixelating faces, the manufacturer describes. MovingParts will move, size, and rotate up to 32 independent images, overlaid onto the motion video beneath it.
Each moving image can be used as a "brush" to create effects, like blurring and pixelization for highlighting or obscuring parts of the video, and can also track the video's motion.
MovingParts is made by StageTools, makers of the popular MovingPicture plug-ins.
Images for animation are loaded easily, and then manipulated with drag and size controls, and by rotating a framing box icon on top of the image until it appears as desired. Key frames can be added onto the timeline through the process.
Animations can be previewed in real time without any rendering. All motion paths are smooth, splined, and tapered. Motion is field-rendered to sub-pixel accuracies.
The MovingPicture plug-in is priced at $129; registered MovingPicture users can add MovingParts for $79.
For more information, visit
www.stagetools.com
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