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G'day all,
Hope your Flying is going great.
OZware is pleased to be part of the Flyer third party team. We
offer a number of programs all written from an editor's viewpoint.
These include...
Co-Pilot Video, high-speed video editing tools
Co-Pilot Audio, easily mixes music around narrations and more
Aussie's Fast Frames, brings Framestores to life
Shortly we will be adding a new MultiCamera editing program and
some other releases. Each of OZware programs are available from your
favorite dealer (support your dealer!) or directly from us.
We can be reached at
OZware
(36O) 8O5-O148
21230 Meadow Lake Rd
Snohomish WA 98290
e-mail: ozware@aol.com
For our web page check out www.vionline.com/newtek We have screen
shots, user quotes, and detailed descriptions.
For tutorials, tips and tricks, log in to the FREE third party Web
Magazine called FlightWave at www.vionline.com/newtek
What follows are short descriptions of our current software. Stay
in touch.
Enjoy, Aussie
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Product name: Co-Pilot Video
Product Price: List $129 (call for our special summer '97 price)
Available: Now
Co-Pilot Video saves you time, all the time... providing over 1OO
powerful tools written by an editor for editors.
"Things are so much faster, I'm going to UP my editing rates."
Like a magic medicine in a traveling show, Co-Pilot Video can...
Trim your waste... Find the lost... Remove the unnecessary... Repeat
the redundant.. Convert the slow... Display the impossible... Layer a
level... Fit the tune... Pick the locks...Back you up.. and save you
time. It is not ALL done with mirrors!
"I was able to cut 3OO stills to a music beat, then add 3OO
transition dissolves with one click"
We took on many situations where you repeat an operation over and
over, such as adding video fades to a large section of clips, setting
stills to fit a music track, converting Framestores to Flyer Stills,
and batch rendering CG pages directly to Flyer Stills. After all,
shouldn't the computer be doing the work?
"In 15 minutes Co-Pilot reclaimed 2 Gigs of drive space, reducing
tape backup time by 2.5 hours."
Removing waste footage from clips in your project frees up hard
drive space and speeds up tape backups. Co-Pilot Video trims the
waste with care, rebuilds the project with precision, and always keeps
you in control. We can also identify clips that are not in your
project, and help you remove or rename them. It can even search for
and load unused clips, such as cutaways that are not in use.
"I have just scratched the surface with Aussie's programs and
they have already paid for themselves! Just the kind of tools we need
for Flying."
Co-Pilot Video has lots more to offer. You can snapshot Flyer
Stills with a simple keypress, keep a clip in a 'virtual roll' during
cutaways, and even display multiple crouton images for video clips
used repeatedly in a project. For layering, the Disk Recorder helps
you digitize video clips while having full access to the Toaster's
switcher screen. You can embed CG scrolls, Fly-in Supers,
letterboxing, ChromaFX, Overlays and manual T-Bar moves right into a
video clip. Then add a third layer on top, in the project screen
Co-Pilot Video also includes a graphic timeline display, a
summary report of your project, and the complete OZ Set collection of
fast 'hotkey' commands, ARexx tools, and useful editing croutons.
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Product name: Co-Pilot Audio
Product Price: List $129 (call for our special summer '97 price)
Available: Now
Creating a perfect audio mix, with your music raising and
lowering around narrations and interviews, is an art. With Co-Pilot
Audio, this and many other audio tasks, are just a press of the
button. For example:
Music Mix
========= -- Creates an artistic mixdown of your audio, so that the
music automatically raises and lowers around lead/narration clips.
Music Mix is easy to use. First identify the lead/narration clips
in your project (by assigning a 'sound type' classification with a
hotkey.) Then simply highlight the music clip, set the mixer, and
perform the mix. Co-Pilot analyzes your project looking for those
narrations, and creates a series of music croutons all timed and
'ramped' together. When you play your Flyer project, the music will
turn up and down appropriately.
Music Mix gives you control of your music. You can choose a
'mixing style' preset and manually adjust the volume levels, fade
speeds and narration-overlap times. These settings are automatically
stored within the music croutons in your project for easy re-mixing at
any time. You can also 'slide' or 'backtime' the music without
affecting any fade points, and even inherit new music into an existing
'ramped' mix.
Mix Master
========== -- Group volume control in some amazing ways, especially
when coupled with Aussie's "sound type" hotkey. Select one button, and
you have a volume slider controlling every narration in your project.
Or select the reverse, turning every clip that is NOT narration/lead
down. You could even 'tell' all music clips to proportionally turn up
by 40% but to never go softer then 12.
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Foreign Mix
=========== -- Converts your Flyer project so that it is ready for
foreign translations, by panning (or balancing) all narrations to one
audio channel and all other audio to the other channel.
Reveal
====== -- Shows hidden information about any 'split' edits by
inserting passive croutons into your project displaying where 'split
audio edits' are happening.
As well as these principle routines, Co-Pilot Audio includes a
graphic timeline display, a summary report of your project, and the
complete OZ Set collection of 1OO fast ARexx tools, editing croutons,
and 'hotkey' commands. These hotkeys let you quickly fill any silent
spot with room tone, show you the visual where your music runs out...
and so much more.
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Product name: Aussie's Fast Frames
Product Price: List $69
Available: Now
Flyer owners who previously used the Toaster are in for a
pleasant surprise. In the pre-Flyer days, we all used Framestores a
lot more than today. Well, guess what? They're back... they're
fast... and with Aussie's Fast Frames from OZware, they're even fun.
Quite simply, Aussie's Fast Frames records any sequence of
Framestores, Effects and CG pages into a single video clip. The
surprise comes when you playback the clip, as ALL "loading time"
delays have been eliminated! You have a single video clip playing
Framestores and titles as fast as 15 per second, along with video
effects triggered immediately one after the other.
"We used to perform lots of tricks with a GPI trigger connected
to the Toaster that are simply not possible in a Flyer project," said
Michael Holten, founder of OZware. "With Fast Frames, you simply build
the sequence and let it fly. Then you can even add an extra level of
CG or effects in the project screen, for that multi-layered look."
Fast Frames is very quick because it records the new video clip
in "real-time" just as fast as the Flyer can play. Aussie's Fast
Frames is perfect for recording a fast collage of Framestores and
effects, and it excels at CG title sequences such as a title list that
builds down the screen.
Designing a sequence is easy since you never have to deal with
loading times whatsoever. Loading time is irrelevant! It also has
options to let you quickly repeat effects, replace cuts with fades,
and butt effects together. Other tools help create titles that type on
the screen like a typewriter, or automatically build a CG list with
each line of text coming on quickly with its own effect.
A recent addition takes Fast Frames further by adding control of
"Flying" keys, i.e. CG titles that fly on and off with trajectory
effects. These can be used in either a Fast Frames sequence or
digitized with background video into a video clip.
Fast Frames also adapts ProWave's RenderFX program to add keying
between clips. So you could create a Fast Frames clip of an animated
CG sequence with effects, and then render that clip as a key over
another existing video clip.
Bring Framestores to life with Fast Frames.
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