VideoFX

Professional Video Production for the Amiga

VideoFX Makes it easy to integrate your Video productions with effects, slides and audio samples. The CD also includes the best of ClassX software.

The name "VideoFX" suggests that this program is meant for videos and video effects. But VideoFX offers far more than this. In the beginning ther aim was to create a program that could offer users a more flexible and automatic system to create videos. We wanted a program able to play animations and show images. In other words, we wanted to create a program that was easy to use. We wanted our program to be able to launch animations simply by pressing a key.

These ideas would have created a very useful program since it would have allowed the user to set up videos without having to use two or three animation players, stop/still operations on the video recorders, etc...

Then, step by step we have increased considerably the functions of our program. Thanks to the Amiga's hardware and software systems, particularly suitable for videos, VideoFX allows much more than animation playing.

Any Amiga machine is equipped with four audio-stereo channels and can execute more than one program at the same time, by integrating them by means of AREXX.

The fruit of our ideas and hard work is VideoFX: a program that allows controlling and managing video productions automatically and in a integrated way. VideoFX's potentialis not restricted to video productions.

The concept of VideoFX

VideoFX is based on the simple concept of event->effect. The event is something that happens; the effect is what happens (what is performed by the machine) as a consequence of the event. To give an example: if you press the light button (event) the light will go on (effect). The management of VideoFX's events and effects is very complete and allows creating complex associations between events and effects. An event may cause several effects, and an effect may be caused by several events. Going on with the example of the light switch, we can say that it is possible to create a lighting system with two light switches and three bulbs, so that the first switch switches on all the three bulbs, while the second one switches on only one bulb.

The contents of the VideoFX CDROM

  • VideoFX 2.00 full version
  • X-DVE v2.00SE full version
  • FontMachine v1.15 full version
  • Printed Manual for VideoFX 2.00
  • 64 Professional ColorFonts
  • Hundreds of Hi-Quality Bitmap Fonts
  • Hundreds of Sound Samples in 8svx format
  • 380 Professional AlphaChannel Color Wipes for VideoFX2
  • 190 Professional AlphaChannel BW Wipes for VideoFX2
  • 310 VFX plugins for VideoFX2
  • 124 professional DVE effects licensed from SPC VideoStudio
  • 138 professional KIT effects licensed from SPC VideoStudio
  • Hundreds of VideoFX scripts: just load and run
  • Drivers for G-Lock, IV-24 and the whole Electronic Design genlock range
  • Sample XFA animations, graphics and FontMachine textures
  • The latest DEMOS of X-DVE3, FontMachine3 and PowerTitler
  • The latest XFA developer's kit
Technical Features

VideoFX is compatible with AmigaOS 2.1. (KickStart v37.175+, Workbench v38.xx) or better. It requires at least 2Mb of Fast Ram and a Hard Disk. Obviously, more memory, faster processors and AGA chipsets are better and will improve the results obtained from VideoFX.

The events manageable by VideoFX:

  • Pressing a key on the keyboard
  • Pressing the left mouse button
  • Pressing the right mouse button
  • Expiring of a timer
The effects:
  • Viewing an image (IFF-ILBM)
  • Playing an animation (IFF-ANIM5/7)
  • Playing an animation (XFA)
  • Playing an audio sample (IFF-8SVX)
  • Executing a VFX effect (user's audio/video format)
  • Executing an external command
  • Controlling the status of the Timers
  • Executing an external AREXX script
The formats HAM-6 (4096 colours) and HAM-8 (16 million colours) are supported for all the visual effects. VideoFX supports the custom VFX format to create effects with synchronized audio and video. The current version of VideoFX supports up to 500 events and can record up to 1000 events. The Image, Animation, and VFX effects are automatically centred on the screen, according to the overscan settings of the machine.



Product Pricing

Video FX 2 �89.95