Stone Design, the original Mac OS X software house with over 19 years of experience with major titles like Stone Works™, Create®, and iMaginator™, today announced immediate availability of Videator™ 3.0, a major upgrade to the innovative and powerful Vee-Jaying, movie-making and video processing application that lets you instantly make movies with all sorts of effects from live video or existing movies. Created to run natively on INTEL and PPC processors, Videator takes full advantage of Apple’s newest computers. Videator is both a “PhotoShoppe For Video” and a realtime performance video creation adventure.
Videator 3.0 adds and enhances these important features:
- Wire to Sound… – Effects can change dynamically based on sound input
- Overlayed movies and blend filters with movies can be played at any speed
- Effects Queue: Preload & insty-fire sets of effects for use in live performance DJ’ing
- New and Enhanced Effects: Tile Puzzle, Polka Dot and Fun Mirror
- Duplicate in Reverse: take the set of filters, duplicate them in reverse order
- Option-Click adding of an effect automatically randomizes start, center and end parameters
- Transitions let you choose destination image or movie
- FadeIn/FadeOut set in center for ease of applying progressively changing effects
- TimeLines now show the effects visually for easy reordering and selection
- Interoperates with newest version of XaoS – the realtime fractal generator
- overlay or underlay fractals
- Add fractals to blends
- pix Library has Live Input and XaoS token as well as a blank canvas
- Export the frames of your movie as images for Flash or GIFfun
- Make new art for the free Videation Nation screen saver
- Fullscreen can be optionally stretched to fill the monitor
- Replicate and overlay the live input with different effects chains
- Choose folders of images for random selection of blend images
- Optimized for the live VJ performer!
- Many other fixes and enhancements
Read the complete gory details of what’s new, what’s enhanced and what’s fixed: https://www.stone.com/NewSincePB1.html#Videator3
According to Stone Design CEO, Andrew Stone, “Videator has become a premier VJ’ing software tool, giving ordinary humans the ability to create realtime art with live streaming input. With the integration of XaoS fractal generation, and the ability to create recursive live inputs, you’ll be pushing the envelope of the visual experience in minutes!”
Videator provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)’s Core Image and Core Video technologies, giving both home users and video professionals instant access to over 110 effects, transitions, and filters. With Videator, users can layer movies, images, paint, music and text over video, as well as apply, modify, and re-order multiple effects to achieve subtle enhancements or astounding artistic results. Crop, scale, rotate, flip, skew, change exposure and brighten movies in real time, and then save processed movies as QuickTime or iPod, and images as industry-standard TIFF or JPEG files.
About Stone Design
Stone Design Corp, founded in 1984 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was the first developer to ship a product for Mac OS X’s predecessor, the NeXT Computer in 1989. With a mission to develop low cost, 100% Macintosh OS X Universal applications that are a joy to use, Stone Design has shipped over a sixteen design and productivity applications including Stone Works, Stone Studio, Create®, iMaginator™, PhotoToWeb®, PStill™, TimeEqualsMoney™, SliceAndDice™, and StampInStone™.
This article was last modified on January 4, 2023
This article was first published on February 8, 2007
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