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From: pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: New ADPro announced!
Message-ID: <102076@cup.portal.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 12:22:10 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 190
ADPro 2.5 is now available for upgrading. For the first time, you can upgrade
your ADPro over the phone via credit card. Here's a press release detailing
some of the changes made in ADPro 2.5. Mailings are going out now to
registered users. Since you can upgrade via phone, however, we wanted to post
this electronically sooner that we have in the past.
Upgrade line is: (608) 273 9240
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AMIGA'S TOP IMAGE PROCESSOR GETS BRAND NEW LOOK AND MORE
In what the company terms "the most significant upgrade in its history", ASDG's
Art Department Professional (ADPro) now offers unmatched display board support,
over 100 pre-written ARexx programs, direct support for the Fargo Primera dye
sublimation printer, new file formats and operators, and an entirely new look
and feel which dramatically boosts ease-of-use.
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Madison, WI, January 14, 1994 ---- ASDG Incorporated, a leading supplier of
color imaging and special effects solutions for the television and motion
picture industries, announce Art Department Professional (ADPro) version 2.5.
According to the company, ADPro 2.5 is "the most significant upgrade in the
product's history".
ADPro version 2.5 offers a choice of several completely style guide compliant
user interfaces. According to company president, Mr. Perry Kivolowitz, "A new
and thoroughly modern user interface was our most requested improvement. We
surveyed our customers and found that some preferred a list oriented graphical
user interface (GUI) for speed, while others preferred a button oriented GUI
for ease-of-use. We implemented both and allowed them to be intermixed
configurably."
The result, says the company, is an easier-to-use ADPro in which no major
feature is more than a mouse click away. Comments which typify beta tester
feedback to the new user interface include those of Mr. Brick Eksten, of
Expert Services. Says Mr. Eksten, "I find the interface to be much faster,
and that helps me get more work done." These sentiments were echoed by Mr.
Kenneth Wilder, Head Animator with Marmalade, who found the new user interface
alone gained him a 20 percent increase in productivity.
ADPro's GUI now runs on many third party display boards, such as the Picasso,
using RTG (ReTargetable Graphics) technology. ADPro can now render images in a
window on the same screen as its user interface, bringing new levels of WYSIWYG
performance to the product. Other newly supported third party hardware
includes: DPS PAR, EGS, Retina Z-III and Retina, and the Video Toaster.
The Amiga's finest image format support has gotten even better with the
addition of 6 new file formats in ADPro and 3 new formats in the (optional)
Professional Conversion Pack (PCP). To ADPro, the company has added support
for Commodore's CDXL animation format, Digital Broadcaster JStream files, FLC
and FLI animations, ICO files and direct reading and writing of Workbench
icons. The PCP has grown to support files in the SGI, Alias, and Wavefront
(both the RLA and RLB varieties) formats. Owners of the PCP should note that,
as in the past, their PCP modules will be upgraded as part of the ADPro
upgrade.
ADPro 2.5 directly supports the revolutionary Fargo Primera printer in its dye
sublimation mode (its thermal transfer mode was already supported by ADPro's
PrefPrinter saver). "The Primera is a breakthrough due to its low price," said
Sales Manager Gina Cerniglia. "We've adapted our state-of-the-art printer
support to drive the Primera in dye sub mode including the ability to print
huge posters in amazing color."
ADPro 2.5 includes more than 100 pre-written ARexx programs, many of which are
interactively customizable by the user. Used in conjunction with the latest
version of FRED, these ARexx programs can be combined in an infinite number of
ways, producing a huge array of full motion special effects automatically.
And, ADPro now allows users to define their own ARexx programs which can be
incorporated directly into ADPro's configurable user interface.
Many other improvements or additions have been made to ADPro such as the
ability to perform alpha channel blending with nearly every file format, not
just those that support their own alpha channel. Composits can now be
performed over a range of colors permitting more flexible chroma keying. New
operators include Histogram Equalization and a brush-based Pattern operator. A
new program called CineMorph is included which converts streams of images
between 24 frame per second film style and 60 field per second video style time
bases.
ADPro 2.5 also sports greatly improved documentation. ADPro's manual now
includes 9 tutorials, many more pictures and diagrams, and an expanded ARexx
programming section. The manual has also been reorganized (and its index
expanded) based upon customer feedback making it easier to use and more
helpful.
ADPro 2.5's price will remain unchanged at $299. Existing owners can upgrade
for $45 plus shipping and can, for the first time, upgrade via telephone using
Visa, MasterCard, or AmericanExpress.
For more information, please contact Ms. Gina Cerniglia at ASDG Incorporated,
925 Stewart Street, Madison, WI 53713 or call (608) 273 6585. Expert Services
can be reached at (606) 371 9690. Marmalade can be reached at (818) 552 5024.
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