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With affordable DV video tools and technology hitting the market every day, everyone with an entry level desktop PC can go digital. This month, we've included some excellent video effects tools and plug-ins to tie in with our buyer's guide in the magazine.
Access2Web 1.2 Access2Web allows you to easily turn Microsoft Access databases into Web content. This is achieved simply by importing your code into Access2Web, connect to your database, and then double-click to insert fields wherever you choose. This is a 30 days trial version. Access2Web can be found on the Web at http://www.access2Web.dk
Cinax WinVCR 1.0 WinVCR 1.0 turns your computer into a VCR. Let's you record from any video source straight onto your hard drive in real-time. And because it's MPEG video, the files are 30 times smaller and fit on your hard drive. Other features include: Video CD Compliant PAL and NTSC Support This is a trial version (30 days) with a 10 min. capture limit. Cinax can be found on the Web at http://www.cinax.com
Digital Origin RotoDV Enhances your movies with touch-ups, digital paint, special effects, and animation. Remove defects and unwanted objects from your scenes by brushing them out. RotoDV is packed with some amazing features. Use paintbrushes and filter effects to make people and objects float in space, breath fire, walk through walls, and more. More information is available at Digital Origin's web site at: http://www.digitalorigin.com/
Gmedia GLPRO 8 Express GLPRO is a multimedia development system for Windows boasting some remarkable features including:
GLPRO runs on all Windows platforms. This is the Express version, which is fully working, but does not allow the creation of single executable files for distribution. More information is online at : http://www.gmedia.com/
Interactive MovieWorks 4.5 MovieWorks provides you with all the tools you need to make a high-quality QuickTime movie, video or multimedia presentation, with unprecedented ease and affordability. Included on the MovieWorks package are five separate Macintosh applications that work seamlessly together. MovieWorks is the main application and provides text editing, special effects, a timeline interface for sequencing media, and buttons to automatically launch the Animator, Sound, Video and Paint applications for media creation and editing. MovieWorks is online at : http://www.movieworks.com/
Irez ReelEyes Lite (free) Irez ReelEyes Lite is a free video software which allows you to display video up to 640*480 and record a sequence to the hard drive, edit it, cut and paste it. The Full version allows you to display full-screen video, export a sequence to any computer format available (Quicktime, BMP, MPG, AVI and even Digital Video stream). Record to the RAM, thus increasing your framerate by 50% at 640*480. Do crop-capture (capture a section of the picture only) etc. Other nice features include: Time-coding, movie information, graph frame rates, and full-screen presentation. More information is online at: http://www.irez.com
Jasc Illuminatus Illuminatus allows anyone to quickly and easily combine words, pictures, video, animation and sound into interactive multimedia publications. No other multimedia authoring package combines such an extensive range of professional features with the ease of use of Illuminatus. More information is online at: http://www.jasc.com
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 6 Jasc Paint Shop Pro 6 is an award-winning image-editing tool that delivers a powerful combination of painting, illustration and photo editing tools with an easy-to-use interface. Features include: support for more than 40 image formats, dockable toolbars, built-in special effects filters, masking options, multilevel undo functionality, complete layer support, "picture tube", brushes, CMYK separation, pressure-sensitive tablet support, flexible painting and retouching brushes etc. New features include editable text with character-level formatting, vector drawing tools, multiple level redo, object manipulation and node editing, multiple color gradients and more. Jasc can be found on the Web at http://www.jasc.com
Scala iplay Studio iplay studio allows anyone to create their own animated TV-like presentations with photos, text, video and sound. iplay studio's simple user interface allows the user to publish their creations on the web as standard HTML or dynamic web channels which are viewable with the free Scala multimedia player, iplay (included), in full-screen format as well as in a window or browser. Scala is online at http://www.scala.com SempliceSoft Font Gander Pro 1.6 Font Gander Pro is a font browser that lets you view and print font samples without first installing them. With Drag-and Drop simplicity Font Gander lets you open, browse and print whole folders or disk. Version 1.6 enables ATM anti-aliasing. SempliceSoft is online at http://www.semplicesoft.com
Terran Media Cleaner Pro 4 Media Cleaner Pro is the industry standard for dynamic media compression. Use Cleaner to prepare great video, audio, and still images for distribution on the Web, CD-ROM, DVD, broadband, kiosk, and presentation. Cleaner is now cross-platform, and is the only tool to support QuickTime, RealG2, Windows Media, MPEG, MP3, and more on both MacOS and Windows. To use this demo you'll need the following unlock code: MCD-17A-89G-20F Terran's web site is at: http://www.terran.com/
Viva Software GmbH VivaPress Pro 3.0.1 VivaPress Professional is a powerful page layout and illustration program.
VivaPress offers most of the features you would find in a typical desktop publishing program, including style sheets, expert type functions, multiple page layout views, hyphenation, and spell checking. Tools for polygons, lines, rectangles, ellipses and Bezier objects offer you creative possibilities only available in stand-alone illustration applications. VivaPress Professionals unique Alias technology enhances productivity by offering faster ways to accomplish your layout tasks. Alias objects are virtual copies of an original, by editing an original object all alias objects are changed automatically, regardless of their location in the document. VivaPress Professional offers an open interface environment. Through its unique filters you are able to open and edit documents created with QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Illustrator. Version 3.0.1 offers:
This version will run for 60 days (starting from the first launch) without any restriction. After this time, the applications can be upgraded to a full version or you can get the key code for this upgrade from Viva Software GmbH. Viva Software GmbH is online at http://www.viva.de XMLwiter Beta 1.0 Shareware XMLwriter is an XML editor for Windows which supports XML, XSL, DTD, CSS, HTML and text files. The editor can convert XML to HTML using XSL and view the results, or format and preview XML documents using CSS. XMLwriter has an customizable user interface with advanced editing functions. XMLwriter is online at http://www.xmlwriter.net
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