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For Immediate Release:
StageTools Announces v2.0 MovingPicture Plug-In for Nonlinear Editors
Software for Pans and Zooms on High Resolution Still Images
(Middleburg, VA – April 2, 2001) -- StageTools announced that it has released version 2.0 versions of its highly acclaimed MovingPicture pan and zoom application for nonlinear editors.
MovingPicture is a tool for documentary and industrial filmmakers 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 nonlinear editor’s timeline.
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 now edited.
“MovingPicture v2.0 offers a significant rendering speed increase, up to 300% faster than before on Pentium-based systems“ stated Ferster, "as well as a number of enhancements suggested by our users, including per keyframe eases and QuickTime rendering. We look forward to a whole series of cross-platform high-productivity tools for creative professionals in the future.”
MovingPicture is widely used by production facilities as diverse as Henninger Video, Jack in the Box, Jim Henson Productions, Lifetime Television, Matchframe Video, Microsoft, MPT-TV, MS-NBC, the National Film Board of Canada, the NY Mets baseball team, the Smithsonian Institution, Weyerhaeuser and WGBH-TV in Boston.
MovingPicture is very simple to use. The image appears on the screen. Dragging and sizing a framing box icon on top of it changes the view, adding key frames onto the timeline. Editor's can preview the motion in real time without any rendering, so the design process is very rapid. The moves can be previewed in real time, and finally rendered in high without ever leaving the editor’s timeline. Motion is field-rendered at sub-pixel accuracy, so motion is very smooth, and in full 32-bit color.
MovingPicture v2.0 is available for Windows-based editors including After Effects, dpsVelocity, Discreet edit*, Premiere, RexEdit and SpeedRazor. Macintosh versions are available for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Media 100, and Premiere. A fully functional evaluation copy can be downloaded from the website: www.stagetools.com. The MovingPicture Plug-In is priced at $199. Registered users can upgrade at no charge.
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For More Information:
Bill Ferster
StageTools
(540) 592-7001
bferster@stagetools.com
www.stagetools.comImages:
A Macintosh screen shot is available at: www.stagetools.com/macplugin.jpg
A Windows screen shot is available at: www.stagetools.com/fullplug.jpg
The MovingPicture logo is available at: http://www.stagetools.com/mlogo128.gif
The StageTools logo is available at: http://www.stagetools.com/slogo128.gif
