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Many packages exist to add video effects onto full frames of video. For
example, iMovie, Final Cut, Premiere, etc. These packages are made such
that you can edit and apply effects to clips of video which encompass
the entire frame. LlamaVision does something similar, but in a different
way.
LlamaVision has regional effects. That is to say that on the frame of
video, you select a region in which an effect is to affect. (heh)
There can be an almost unlimited (meaning that I have not yet defined
it) number of regions on each frame of video.
LlamaVision will have the following features/requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or newer required (No ram/processor-specifc requirements)
- Import from DV clip
- Export to DV clip
- Trim a clip to remove head and trailing junk frames
- polygonal region editor
- region tweening (define a polygon on frame 0 and frame 30, LV fills in the rest for you)
- A whole bunch of Effects plugins, as well as a plugin SDK.
- Patience will be a necessity as well.
LlamaVision is not designed to be:
- A fully-fledged video editor. Edit your footage elsewhere. (Premiere, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, NLV)
- a compositing tool... use Shake or Final Cut.
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No real screenshots yet, but here are the mockups made in OmniGraffle...
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The Viewer Window
This is where you load your clip in. The bottom slider adjusts the
position in the clip. The Z button lets you zoom in and out.
This window also acts as the preview window to show what an effect
looks like, as well as to rotoscope on new regions.
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The Regions Window
This is the listing of available regions. It lets you add or remove
regions. You can (H)ide or (S)how the clip, display just the alpha
generated from the region, or change the region's title.
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The Effects Window
This window shows you the effects for the clip. You select a
region to apply the effect to. You can (H)ide, (S)how, (W)ireframe
or view only the output of this (E)ffect, solo. You can also change the effect name, and
the (?) button brings up the Parameters window.
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The Parameters Window
This lets you edit the parameters for each of the effects. It is
generated dynamically when the effect loads, based on the parameters
that the effect needs.
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Here's the original, horrible, concept for the gui.
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| News |
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- 2004.10.05
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After thinking about things for almost 2 years, I've decided to
revisit this project. I have a much better GUI designed for
the project, which exploits GUI features more fully. The new
design integrates Apple-provided services and frameworks, (like
Core Video and XGrid for quick rendering and distributed effects
processing, to accelerate compositional and rendering time.)
- 2002.12.03
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Last night's experiment in designing the user interface
failed miserably. :(
To see this horrid prototype, (for comparison with newer designs,
click here to see it ...
- 2002.12.02
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Construction of the prototype (in Carbon) was in progress.
Note: This has since been junked.
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| Current State / Todo List |
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- - getting closer to be put back on the front-burner. :D
- I still need to learn Objective C, as well as the tools and frameworks...
- XCode, XGrid, CoreVideo, Quicktime, Cocoa
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| License |
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LlamaVision will initially be given out free for personal use. If you
are going to be using it in a commercial environment, there will be a
site-license fee, although you can evaluate the product for free to
decide if you want to send me cash... The executables will be identical
in both cases. If you like using it, send me money! (I am perhaps too
trusting... so be it.) Although, since there isn't a lick of code written
yet, this is all moot.
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