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For Immediate Release
Contact: Todd Oberman
Lantern Corporation
63 Ridgemoor Drive
Clayton, MO 63105
Phone & Fax: (314) 725-6125
Compuserve: 73650,375
Internet: rhusar@mecf.wustl.edu
Lantern Corporation Announces AVI Support for MOVIE Upgrade
CLAYTON, MO - November 11, 1993 - Lantern Corporation today announced that
the next version of its MOVIE Animation Utility for Windows(tm) will support
the creation and playback of AVI files. MOVIE is a Windows 3.1 utility which
creates animations by automatically capturing screen images and playing back
the images to produce motion. MOVIE requires no expensive video hardware.
Version 4.1 of the MOVE Animation Utility and the MOVIE Development Kit are
scheduled for a release in the first quarter of 1994. With the planned
update, people can use their own drawing and charting applications to create
animations in an industry standard format.
Currently, MOVIE 4.0 features a device independent file format which can
handle palettes of 256 or more colors as well as a royalty-free MOVIE Player
which allows people to distribute their animations to others. The MOVIE
Development Kit provides the capability to embed movies in Windows Help
files as well as Multimedia Viewer files. Lantern's products enable WinHelp
files to become the medium of electronic reports, newsletters and
demonstrations. The Development Kit also provides an open API to the
MOVIE DLL engine which allows developers to create their own animation
applications with a simple frame based API.
MOVIE can be combined with any drawing, painting and charting software to
produce animated presentations. In WinHelp files, simple animations showing
someone how to accomplish a task are an effective tool for learning and
training. MOVIE can be combined with 3-D CAD and surface modeling software
to produce fly overs and architectural walk throughs. It can be combined
with GIS mapping systems to animate economic, demographic or meteorological
data through time.
About the Publisher
Lantern Corporation is a software development company located in St. Louis,
Missouri. Believing that data dissemination should be as uninhibited as
possible, Lantern's primarily focuses on providing information delivery
systems within the Microsoft Windows environment. Lantern is uniting the
analytical and presentation needs of today's users. Lantern's other major
product is Voyager, a data base browser for related geographic and time data.
In Voyager, data are simultaneously displayed on map, time, variable and
scatter views. Voyager has applications in demographic, economic, marketing
and environmental analysis.
MOVIE 4.1 Animation Utility Available: First Quarter 1994