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For Immediate Release:

StageTools Introduces MovingParts
Fast and Easy Animation tool for Editors

(DVExpoEast  – July 9, 2003) --  StageTools introduced at  new  tool that provides editor fast and easy animation abilities as a plug-in most popular nonlinear editors.

MovingParts is a simple plug-in that will animate images and effects over your video, directly from your editor's timeline. Designed for editors, MovingParts is fast and easy to use-- and it produces high-quality output.

It's great for animating logos and other images, creating animatics, highlighting action, blurring or pixelating faces-- and doing it quickly and easily. MovingParts will move, size, and rotate up to 32 independent images, overlaid onto the motion video beneath it.

Each moving image can be used as a "brush," to create effects like blurring and pixelization for highlighting or obscuring parts of the video, and can also track the video's motion.

"We wanted to make a tool that was designed for editors, rather than graphics people" said StageTools founder Bill Ferster. "so as to provide an easy and fast way to add graphics elements to video without leaving the NLE."

MovingParts is made by StageTools, whose popular MovingPicture plug-in is widely used by broadcasters, documentary film producers, schools, corporate and event videographers, including: ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, BBC, PBS, Discovery, LifeTime,  A&E, and the legendary Ken Burns.

MovingParts is very easy to use: Load the image you want to animate. Drag and size and rotate a framing box icon on top of the image until it appears the way you want it. Keep adding these key frames onto the timeline as you go.

Since you can preview the animation in real time without any rendering, the design process is very rapid. All motion paths are smooth, splined, and tapered. Motion is field-rendered to sub-pixel accuracies.

MovingParts is available for the following editors: Avid, dpsVelocity,  Final Cut Pro,  Pinnacle,  Premiere, as well as a freestanding  version. MovingParts supports Windows, MacOS 9 and MacOS X based systems. 

A fully functional evaluation copy can be downloaded from the website: www.stagetools.com. The MovingParts Plug-In is priced at $129. Registered MovingPicture users can add MovingParts for only $79.

 

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For More Information:

Bill Ferster
StageTools
(540) 592-7001
(509) 694-0435 fax
bferster@stagetools.com
www.stagetools.com

Images:

A Mac screen shot is available at: www.stagetools.com/PartsFullOSX.jpg
A Windows screen shot is available at: www.stagetools.com/PartsFullWin.jpg
The MovingParts logo is available at: http://www.stagetools.com/plogo256.gif
The StageTools logo is available at: http://www.stagetools.com/slogo128.gif

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