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New Animation software: MotionMage
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Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:17:09 GMT
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Hi there,
I'd like to announce that MotionMage, my custom camera control software for
stop-motion animation, is now available. (If you were at BrickFest 2003, you may
have seen my impromptu demonstration of this.)
Features include:
1) Cross-Platform: MotionMage is written in Java, and it uses the Java Media
Framework for video functions. This means that it works with both Windows and
Unix/Linux systems. (Haven't tested this on Macintosh yet.)
2) Full camera setting controls: All controls that are available from your
camera's driver software are also available through MotionMage.
3) Numeric color analysis: This optional display will analyze every pixel in the
incoming video feed's image, calculate the average red, green, and blue values,
convert them to Hue, Saturation, and Light, and display these values
numerically. These values are then updated in real time to allow you to measure
light intensity before taking a picture.
4) Auto-Averaging picture smoothing: This optional function will take any number
of successive incoming images and average them into a single image. This has a
noticeable effect of smoothing out a picture. Designed for Chroma-key
processing.
5) Adjustable performance with Frame Delay: Because computers with low memory
resources (like mine) can be overwhelmed trying to process high resolution
images at a high frame rate, cameras can be set to update at lower rates.
6) Frame-order editing: Delete, Reverse, Cut, Copy, and Paste frames within one
sequence, and move frames between different sequences.
7) Audio playback: Select an audio file to play back with your animation when
testing.
8) Import and export to AVI file format:
9) Import JPG, GIF, and PNG frame sequences: Frames generated by any other
graphics program can be imported as a sequence into MotionMage.
10) Onion-Skin and Viewers: Compare two images from cameras or sequences with
one drawn transparent over the other or have the two switch back and forth in a
strobe-like fashion. Capture from this viewpoint as well.
11) Embedded help: Full instructions and reference available within the program.
MotionMage comes in three versions: Freeware, Basic, and Gold. The Gold version
also has the following:
12) Multiple camera support: If it's possible for your computer to use two or
more cameras at the same time, MotionMage can use them all.
13) Multiple sequence support: Work with several animations at the same time.
14) Synchronized Sequences: Use one sequence as a reference to create another
sequence. Synchronized sequences will scroll through their frames together.
15) Disaster recovery: System crashes during a shoot? Make a mistake in editing?
You haven't lost anything. Frames are saved to a directory when taken, and
automatically moved to a trash directory when cut or deleted. Barring a
hard-disk crash, you cannot lose a single frame of animation unless you
specifically delete it by emptying the trash.
Give it a try! Exclusively at http://www.BricksInMotion.com
Thomas Foote
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