STAGETOOLS ANNOUNCE MOVINGPICTURE FOR PAN & ZOOM

STAGETOOLS have announced that they have released Apple Macintosh versions of MovingPicture pan and zoom application as an AVX Plug-in Avid’s Media Composer, Xpress non-linear editing systems, Adobe’s Premiere and After Effects programs.
MovingPicture is a new tool for documentary and industrial filmmakers enabling pan and zoom on high-resolution images. Instead of using motion-control rigs to create pans and zooms on photographic stills, MovingPicture uses digital images on a desktop PC.
MovingPicture uses an ‘animation-stand’ metaphor, where a virtual camera viewfinder is positioned over the digital image in real-time. A series of ‘key frames’ can be set, each one specifying what the camera will see at some point in time.
The moves can be previewed in real-time, and rendered at high resolution without leaving the editor’s timeline. Motion is field-rendered at sub-pixel accuracy, and in full 32-bit colour.MovingPicture is also available for Windows-based systems for Premiere, dpsVelocity, RexEdit, SpeedRazor and After Effects.
Versions for Media 100 and Discreet Logic’s edit systems are to be released the end of the year.