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Honestech Introduces Claymation Studio Deluxe

mary | 05 October, 2007 13:02

New York, NY at Digital Life and Austin, TX September 27, 2007 Honestech, Inc. today announced the release of Honestech Claymation Studio (Academic Pricing) an easy-to-use stop-motion authoring studio which enables novice users to create claymation, stop-motion video, animation and cell-based videos from imported images, photographs, music audio and recorded sound tracks. Honestech, Inc., a leading developer and marketer of digital video and Internet Protocol software technology for multimedia content on PCs, handheld devices and phones, will retail the product at under $50.00.

The new product, which includes Clay, targets the fast growing consumer created content market, allows users to capture images using a digital camera, webcam, DV camcorder or any digital image source, create characters, apply small changes, and add background images and music to create complete claymation movies.

Features of the
Honestech Claymation Studio (Academic Pricing) software include:

 

  • Onionskin, which allows users to view the previous frame and the next frame in the creation process on a same-screen transparent overlay mode to help perfect the image for the next frame.
  • Rotoscope, where users can view a still photo on top of a new image in the creation process and use it as reference to help produce images that are difficult to create.
  • Chroma key, which allows users to put an object on a blue/green screen and import easily-changeable background images from another source. WMV/AVI/MPEG, which enables users to save their videos in Windows Media File or Audio Video Interleave formats.
  • Audio recording, which allows users to import or record audio and add it to specific frames.
  • Simple frame editing, whereby the user can display frames in sequence, and change the order of the frames using drag-and-drop.
  • Project format, which allows users to save a current project being worked on, and continue working on it at a later time.

onOne Software introduces PhotoTune 2.2!

mary | 05 October, 2007 10:47

onOne Software has introduced PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing) – an easy-to-use Adobe Photoshop plug-in incorporating the company's newly acquired color-correction plug-ins – 20/20 Color MD 2.0 and SkinTune 2.0.

"Having recently acquired
PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing) and their ground-breaking plug-ins 20/20 Color MD 2.0 and SkinTune 2.0, we wanted to be able to quickly offer our combined customers a new complete color correction software solution," said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software.

"
PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing), available for the first time, includes ColorTune technology (formerly known as 20/20 Color MD) with its patented color correction process and SkinTune technology, developed after more than two years of in-depth skin color research. PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing) is sure to improve the busy workflow of photographers, graphic artists and photo enthusiasts."

About 20/20 Color MD 2.0
20/20 Color MD 2.0 will be renamed ColorTune now that it is owned by onOne Software. ColorTune is a straight-forward, yet sophisticated technology designed for anyone who wants great looking images without spending hours behind the computer screen manually adjusting curves and sliders.

ColorTune works like an eye exam to figure out precisely what is wrong with a digital image and how to fix it. During each step of the patented Color Wizard process, users are presented two side-by-side preview images that have been altered in different ways.

Users simply click on the best looking image between each pair. The entire six-step process only takes about 15 seconds. In comparison, if a user spends an average of 10 minutes fixing an image with Photoshop's Curves, Levels, and Hue & Saturation it will take them 16 hours to color correct 100 images. With
PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing) and ColorTune technology, 100 images can be processed in less than one hour.


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Create an Animatic Slug with PowerProduction StoryBoard Artist

mary | 05 October, 2007 10:28

Everyone's familiar with the storyboarding process as it relates to film production. It helps a producer and director bring a screenplay to life. But have you ever thought about how storyboarding could streamline editing and post-production? Imagine creating a visual outline to guide your editing, before you even start collecting footage. Imagine a full-length animatic, complete with music, right in your NLE timeline - to overlay footage onto, making constructing a scene a snap. Imagine creating animatic slug scenes from your own images or from a library of supplied images to round out your unfinished sequences.

All of this is possible using
StoryBoard Artist 4 (Academic Pricing). With StoryBoard Artist 4 (Academic Pricing), an editor no longer has to screen unfinished sequences with 'shot missing' or 'scene missing' slates. Instead the editor can create animatics to import into their NLE timeline. Check out this new tutorial to learn more.
 
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More StoryBoard Artist software:

StoryBoard Artist Studio 4 (Academic Pricing)

StoryBoard Quick 5 (Academic Pricing)

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