NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
StageTools Introduces MovingChart
Software for Making 3D Animated Charts and Graphs
(Middleburg, VA – May 1, 2002) -- StageTools announced the availability of MovingChart, a tool for editors and producers to add high-quality 3D charts and graphs directly to video shows.
The resulting chart is of high quality and is fully anti-aliased. MovingChart will make bar, area, line, marker and pie style charts. The data can be animated, as well as the chart itself in full 3D.
Data can be easily imported from any spreadsheet or text file. The resulting chart can be drawn over a moving video background.
Producers can preview the motion in real time without any rendering, so the design process is very rapid. All motion paths are smooth, splined and tapered. Motion is field rendered to sub-pixel accuracies as AVI or QuickTime movies.
Editors can easily apply textures to the walls and data elements of charts using any one of the supplied texture files. Users can even create their own textures.
StageTools is the maker of the highly regarded MovingPicture plug-in, a tool for producers to pan and zoom on high-resolution images. It takes scanned images up to 4,000 pixels, and allows for perfectly repeatable pans and zooms directly from a Windows or Macintosh computer, or as a plug-in to most nonlinear editors.
A fully functional evaluation copy can be downloaded from the website: www.stagetools.com.
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For More Information:
Bill Ferster
StageTools
(540) 592-7001
bferster@stagetools.com
www.stagetools.comImages:
A screen shot is available at: www.stagetools.com/fullchart.jpg
The MovingChart logo is available at: http://www.stagetools.com/clogo128.gif
The StageTools logo is available at: http://www.stagetools.com/slogo128.gif
