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An animation, framegrabbing, handyscanner and Blue Screen effect software
for the EGS graphical environment.
This software enables all EGS users (e.g. users of the typical EGS
graphic boards as Piccolo, Piccolo-SD64, EGS-Spectrum, EGS-110, ...) to
create and edit animations direct on harddisk, grab pictures and sequences
from several framegrabbers, access some handyscanners or apply the Blue
screen effect to pictures/sequences.
Supported framegrabbers:
1) VLab (std., Y/C and parallelport versions of MacroSystems framegrabber)
2) IV24 (GVPs Impact Vision)
3) VideoCruncher (Ing.buero Helfrich)
Single or multiple frames can be grabbed from such framegrabbers and
combined with loaded frames into sequences/animations on harddisk.
Supported handyscanners:
1) Cameron (black&white and greyscale)
2) Reisware (black&white and greyscale)
3) ScanKing (black&white and greyscale)
As scanner interfaces only Cameron and Reisware interfaces are supported.
For animation creation or extension pictures or whole directories of
pictures can be imported in the following file formats:
1) IFF-ILBM (1 to 24Bit incl. HAM6/HAM8)
2) JPeg (color and greyscale)
3) PPM/PGM/PBM (P1&P4 b&w, P5 grey, P6 color)
4) QRT (also known as dump format by PD raytracers as POV-Ray)
5) Targa
6) PCX
7) BMP (uncompressed)
8) TIF (packbit-compr./uncompr.)
9) EGS7.x window icons
10) DEEP
11) YUV
12) VLAB raw
13) RGB
14) HHsYUVSq sequence format
15) IFF-PBM (DPII)
16) ACBM
17) FBM
18) Sun raster (uncompressed)
19) MacPaint (b&w compressed 1Bit format; datafork only)
20) HHsXRL formats
The additional DataType support extends this list by many formats;
DataTypes can e.g. be found on Aminet in util/DType.
Pictures can be downscaled during import.
Animations/sequences can be edited directly on harddisk: new frames can be
inserted/appended and frames can be deleted. Frames can also be directly
imported from ImageFX or ImageFX-EGS.
Frames can be directly exported to ImageFX, ImageFX-EGS, PicoPainter,
ArtEffect, XiPaint, TVPaint or to Clipboard.
Saving of individual frames is also possible in several formats (e.g.
JPeg, IFF-ILBM24, ...).
Animations can be played back at selectable speeds forward and backward.
The Blue Screen keying effect allows the conbination of several image
sources into one picture. This can e.g. be used to combine a picture
from framegrabber with some blue background with another background
picture, so that the blue background is replaced. The colour range can be
selected by several parameters.
NEW FEATURES
New since V5.0: Support for VideoCruncher
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
OS2.04 required, OS3.0/3.1 reccomended (needed for DataType support)
6MBytes memory
EGS system 6.0 or higher (usual in conjunction with one of the graphic
boards, but it can also be used with the EGS for all Amigas without any
graphic board)
The EGS system (6.0 and 7.1) can be found for ftp access on
"orion.etsu.edu" in the pub/amiga/egs section.
AVAILABILITY
PRICE
Shareware fee: 40DM (in europe) or 33US$ (worldwide) for the Professional
version. 25DM (in europe) or 25US$ (worldwide) for the Classical version,
which does not include harddisk sequence editing, timing controls or JPeg
saving.
DISTRIBUTABILITY
Copyright by Helmut Hoffmann 1994-1995
Limited demo version is freely distributable; registered users will
receive a keyfile which enables all features.
OTHER
The freely distributable version has some restrictions which disappear
after you pay the shareware fee and receive a special personal keyfile
(together with the latest version). Once registered, you can use new
freely distributable versions as update with your keyfile.