NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
StageTools Announces MovingPicture Plug-In for Adobe Premiere and other Nonlinear Editors
Software for Zooms and Pans on High Resolution Still Images for Documentary Video Projects. Macintosh version announced.
(Middleburg, VA – June 15, 2000) -- StageTools announced it is offering its highly acclaimed MovingPicture pan and zoom application as a Plug-In for Adobe Premiere and other nonlinear editors.
MovingPicture is a new tool for documentary and industrial filmmakers to pan and zoom on high-resolution images. Rather than using expensive and bulky motion-control rigs to create pans and zooms on stills, MovingPicture uses digital images on a desktop PC. This is done directly from the timeline of the nonlinear editor.
MovingPicture uses an animation-stand metaphor, where a virtual camera viewfinder is positioned over the digital image in real time. A series of "key frames" can be set, each one specifying what the camera will see at some point in time. The program will smoothly flow from one key frame to the next in real time.
Four-time Academy award-winning film maker Charles Guggenheim said "MovingPicture promises to be one of the most valuable tools created in recent years for the documentary film maker." It is being widely used by production companies such as MS-NBC, Jim Henson Productions, and Henninger Video.
MovingPicture is made by StageTools, a company dedicated to providing high productivity design tools to the professional creative community, including OnStage!, a previsualization tool designed for motion picture and video producers to help visualize scenes before they are shot. The standalone version of MovingPicture uses OpenGL to perform moves in real time directly to tape.
StageTools is headed by Bill Ferster, the founder of West End Film and Editing Machines Corporation. EMC developed the first digital nonlinear editing system and received an EMMY Award, for pioneering a technology that has revolutionized the way films and videos are edited.
MovingPicture is Windows 95/98/NT based, although an Apple Macintosh version for Avid and Premiere editors will be available this fall. Plug-ins are available for Premiere, dpsVelocity, RexEdit, Speed Razor and After Effects (to support Discreet Logic’s edit* NLE).
A fully functional evaluation copy can be downloaded from the website: www.stagetools.com. The MovingPicture Plug-In is priced at $199 and available now.
Screen shots available at: www.stagetools.com/pressimages.html
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For More Information:
Bill Ferster
StageTools
(540) 592-7001
(540) 592-7060 fax
bferster@stagetools.com
www.stagetools.com
