One reality when taking video captures to print is the constrained video resolution of 72 dpi. The video will look fabulous on a 60-inch plasma screen, but still images intended for print are, for the most part, unacceptable in both size and resolution. Many people resort to Photoshop’s bicubic or “nearest neighbor” feature to “uprez” [...]
This versatile and unique shapes-based modeling and animation application is few and far between. Inexpensive, capable of creating beautiful 3D animations, and easy to use. And did I mention . . . inexpensive. Kinemac offers real-time 3D animation and presentation abilities using OpenGL acceleration and QuickTime support. Add drag-and-drop capabilities for scrolling and 3D text, [...]
Noise Industries released FXFactory v.1 eighteen months ago to coincide with the introduction of Apple’s FXPlug architecture for Motion and Final Cut Pro. The debut package was an impressive bundle of filters, generators and transitions, all of which were optimized for GPU-accelerated rendering. You could even author custom filters and plug ins using Apple’s Quartz [...]
Anyone involved with delivering video content knows how incredibly efficent and stunningly beautiful the h.264 codec is. It produces exceptional video quality at impressively low data rates for both streaming and stored formats. It is used for streaming and messaging video delivery, popular web sites like YouTube, Vimeo and ExposureRoom, and it is the codec of choice [...]