By Elina Shatkin, September 12, 2003
StageTools introduced a new tool that provides editors with animation abilities as a plug-in to most popular nonlinear editors. MovingParts is a plug-in that will animate images and effects over your video, directly from the editor's timeline.
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.
MovingParts is 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. Because 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, and 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 StageTools Web site. The MovingPicture plug-in is priced at $129. Registered MovingPicture users can add MovingParts for only $79.
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