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- Greetings and welcome to the Demo Version of VisualFX for ImageFX. This is
- The Official Brief ReadMe file designed to fill you in on what you need to
- know to get up and running with VFX/IFX.
-
- Like I said: this is the demo version of VFX/IFX. That is to say, while it
- contains all of the Preview Animations from the first 4 volumes, only effect
- #1 from each volume will actually work.
-
- SPECIAL NOTE: This CD contains the Demo version of VFXIFX. It is also used
- by the REAL version of VFX to install certain files to your hard drive.
- By doing it this way, we only had to create one CD to fill both purposes.
- So if you got a Demo CD and bought the package, the CD's will be the same.
- The REAL product also comes with a Floppy disk that has ALL the effects on
- it and will install the required files from both the disk & CD.
-
- Naturally, you need to have ImageFX on your system (version 2.6 or above).
- When started, VFX will search for the presence of ImageFX on your system
- and then go and attempt to run it. If you're using a NewTek Toaster Flyer
- system, you will need to have the Flyer up and running before you can set
- up or render an effect. Flyer users also need to have the ImageFX render
- module set for toaster. Furthermore, since the Flyer croutons take up a
- lot of chip memory, it's best to have your view mode set up for
- project/switcher with no current project loaded - this way you won't
- have croutons hogging all of your chip memory.
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- MISC. IMAGEFX OPTIONS
- We recommend the preview mode for ImageFX be set up to HiRes interlace
- gray scale to conserve chip memory. The screen mode option should be set
- for 640x200, 16 colors. Under ImageFX's "Misc. Options" menu (under the
- "Prefs" button - where you set up the modules and settings, etc.), the
- only things which should be checked are "Aspect Lock", "Toolbox Palette",
- and "Use preview".
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- Another important thing is to make sure that ARexx is running first. If
- it isn't, VFX will attempt to find and run it on its own.
-
-
- As for how the program works:
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- When VFX first starts, it'll ask you which mode you want to run in: 4, 16,
- or 256 colors. While the 256 color mode will of course only run on Amigas
- equipped with the AGA chipset, the 16 color mode is a nice gray scale setup
- for A2000's, and the 4 color mode is the big memory saver. In 4 color mode
- there will be no preview anims, so this is a good choice for those folks
- running on Flyer systems. ImageFX, VFX, and the Flyer all running at once
- will definitely put the crunch on your available chip memory, and in order
- to reserve the greatest amount of memory for The Work, the 4 color mode not
- only dispenses with the preview animations, but it also dispenses with the
- 20 little descriptive pictures which would have appeared onscreen in the 20
- little boxes you see.
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- As for how the program runs, how's THIS for easy?:
-
- In addition to the 20 li'l boxes for the descriptive pictures, there are 4
- li'l buttons at the bottom of the screen marked:
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- 1. Load New Volume
- 2. Preview Effect
- 3. Setup Effect
- 4. Render Effect
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- Believe it or not, that's almost all the description you need. The only
- extra bits you might want to know are:
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- "Preview Effect": When ya click on it, it'll run a little preview animation
- in the box at bottom center of the screen (unless you're in 4 color mode).
- This will show you what the effect will look like. If you like it, you
- select what images you'd like to use (instead of the ones in the preview
- - which are there just for the previewing). VFX will insert your images
- and manipulate them in the same fashion as the previews.
-
- "Setup Effect": When ya click on this, the effect will be loaded and sent
- over to ImageFX so that you can, well.... set up the effect. You'll be asked
- what image(s) to use and, through various different questions based upon the
- effect currently chosen, it'll walk you through the process. Once you have
- set up your effect, you click on:
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- "Render Effect": Once you have an effect set up, this button starts the
- ball rolling. ImageFX will take over and begin the rendering process
- automatically. All you do is sit back and contemplate all of the time
- you're saving.....
-
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- Retail price is $199.95 per volume. Call for latest sale prices on all
- our products.
-
-
- We plan on coming out with numerous volumes of Transitions and Templates in
- the future, so if you have any requests please send them to us.
-
- You can contact us at:
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- Visual Inspirations
- 809 W. Hollywood
- Tampa, FL 33604
- 813-935-6410 (voice/fax)
- email: visual@vionline.com
- http://www.vionline.com
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