Are you a cartoonist, animator, or doodler at heart? Make your paint and ink sketches come to life in the digital world with this cool tool. This 2D character animator will allow you to create animated cartoons easily using character animation, compositing, and film-quality special effects. It features multiplane camera control, automatic cel painting, 3D shading, audio editing, production cost reporting, and easy output to film, HDTV, video, QuickTime, and standard graphics files. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5.1 or later.
ASTARTE M.Pack 3.0.3 - Demo
ASTARTE USA, support@astarteusa.com, http://www.astarteusa.com
Encode your QuickTime movies into MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 formats, playable on a wide-variety of computer and video systems, with this set of tools. This pack will allow you to convert your QuickTime movies into high-quality MPEG streams for delivery over the Internet, or for DVD-Video, VideoCD, and CD-i applications. It comes with a set of pre-defined encoder settings that can easily be modified to fit your own needs. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.1 or later, QuickTime 2.5 or later, QuickTime MPEG Playback extension 1.0 or later (MPEG-1), a hardware decoder for MPEG-2, and 25 MB RAM.
This set of 18 plug-ins for Adobe After Effects gives you professional tools and will allow you to create superb-quality effects with endless possibilities. Create effects for 3D glasses, cellular noise, lightning simulations, magnification, shadows, distortion effects and more. Plus, you’ll get plug-ins that will allow you to paint directly in After effects, as well as clean up distortion, replace color, roughen edges, and more. Requires a PPC and Adobe After Effects 3.0 or later.
D-Fusion 1.1 - Freeware
The French Touch, info@french-touch.net, http://www.french-touch.net
This stanalone player will play animated Fusion object files (you will find Fusion software also on this CD). Fusion is a real-time 3D editor based on the Infinity 3D Rave engine. This player will allow you to play these object files in full-screen animation. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.1 or later and QuickDraw 3D Rave.
Make your web pages much more exciting with this great tool. It allows you to create fast-downloading, interactive web multimedia quickly and easily. Add animation, audio, video, 3D, VR, and over 150 special effects to your sites. It also features drag and drop authoring, flexible compression, and seamless integration with popular tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, PageMill, and Dreamweaver. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5 or later, QuickTime 3.0 or later, and 24 MB RAM.
Fusion 3.0 - Freeware
The French Touch, info@french-touch.net, http://www.french-touch.net
This powerful 3D editor is designed to create and edit object files with real-time rendering using the Infinity 3D Rave engine. It allows you to import the meshes contained in 3DMF files, modify them (position, rotation, scale, etc), add colors or textures, and save the result as an object file. It offers features such as linking, an animation sequencer, a morphing sequencer, sound tracks, texture mapping, rotoscoping, and more. Keep in mind that Fusion is not a 3D modeler - you can’t create meshes. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.1 or later, QuickDraw 3D Rave, and an 832x624 minimum screen resolution.
If you work with video or audio for the Web, CD-ROM, or DVD, Media Cleaner is a vital tool for creating dynamic media optimization and compression. Powerful features with high-quality results are quickly making this program an industry standard in multimedia. You must register (free) on Terran’s website or fax the enclosed registration form to unlock the code to use this demo. 68040 and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.0 or later, QuickTime 2.5 or later, and 16 MB RAM.
This synthesis and sound design program will allow you to “paint” with sound. It works like a graphics program except you are using sound to paint. Notes are transcribed as color values, picture coordinates are mapped into time and frequency, stereo position is determined by color, and a pixel’s gray scale controls the volume of a specific harmonic at a specific moment in time. You don’t need to know anything about music or be a sound engineer to appreciate this program. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.3 or later, Sound Manager 3.1 or later, and 16 MB RAM min.
Here’s an easy-to-use program that gives you all the tools needed to make a high-quality QuickTime movie, video, or multimedia presentation. Create and edit scenes including text/titles, video, photos, graphics, animation, music, MIDI, VR, and 3D objects. It features a 24-bit paint program, audio recoder/editor, video capture and editing capabilities, and a 2D cell animator. Requires a PPC or 68040 Mac running Mac OS 7.6.1 or later, 8 MB RAM, and QuickTime 2.5 or later.
Play It Cool 3.3 - Shareware
Russell Clarke, rwc@kagi.com, http://www.kagi.com/rwc/
Here’s a nifty QuickTime Movie Player, QTVR Player, and simple movie editor in one. It plays all types of files including .mov, MIDI, MPEG, AVI, VCD, and QTVR. It can also open image files such as PICT, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, and PNG; as well as sound files like .snd, AIFF, WAV, and AU. It features smooth movie playing ability since movies are loaded into RAM, basic movie editing features (cut, copy, paste, add, add scaled), playback options, jog and shuttle controls, compression capability, and more. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.0 or later, and QuickTime 1.6 or later. QuickTime 3.0 or later is required to open some formats.
This QuickTime video editor is designed to allow you to perform common editing operations in the quickest and easiest way. It also allows you to capture movies from within the interface (provided you have the necessary hardware). Features include a simple all-in-one-window scalable interface, support for .mov, .avi., mpg., .aiff, .wav, .au, .bmp, .jpg, .and gif files, more than 100 transitions and filters, drag-and-drop support, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.0 or later and QuickTime 3.
ScrapIt Pro 5.44 - Shareware
John Holder, jvholder@northcoast.com, http://www.northcoast.com/~jvholder
This editable, searchable, multimedia scrapbook and mini word processor allows you to store, sort, display, and search all of your text notes, sounds, AIFF files, GIFs and JPEGs, and more. Anything you can copy to the clipboard can be pasted and stored in a ScrapIt Pro file. Features full support of Apple's latest technology such as Drag 'n Drop, QuickDraw 3D, Speech, and more. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7 or later.
Here’s a unique and easy way of adding a bit of Hollywood to your videos. This way-cool, powerful tool will allow you to paint special effects right onto your video using standard paint tools and video controls. This nondestructive method will allow you to create without the fear of permanently destroying your original. It features self-animating tools which will let you create special effects over time on their own (tweening). Create bubbles, fire, fireworks, lens flares, mist, and other cool filtering effects with the stroke of your mouse. You can also use the painting tools to stylize or colorize your frames. Awesome! 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.0 or later.
This full-featured, easy to use, video editor puts you in the director’s chair. With VideoShop, you can create professional quality movies by incorporating transitions, filters, scrollable titles, and importing 3D objects. You can also edit pro-quality music and audio and create special effects. This is the COMPLETE commercial version of VideoShop 3.0. We highly recommend upgrading to version 4.5 (details included) to get the lastest technological features. 68040 and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.0.1 or later, and QuickTime 2.0 or later.
