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Canopus Imaginate
With Imaginate, you can breathe new life into still images and photographs, transforming them into movies that can be used to bring history to life, create montages, motion menus, or anything else the video professional can imagine. Imaginate's intuitive interface and timeline features, along with realtime preview, make the design process fast. Combined with comprehensive camera control, Imaginate can create precise motion paths and sweeping, cinematic effects.
See things from a new perspective
Canopus takes the incorporation of stills and photographs into video projects
to new levels with its latest leading-edge software, Imaginate. Imaginate
allows video professionals to take photographs and high-resolution stills
and convert them into full-fledged animated movies. The program is completely
intuitive and utilizes an advanced timeline and camera control scheme
so users can quickly integrate Imaginate into their workflow. With Imaginate,
editors can pan, zoom, rotate, skew, and combine all of these movements
to create cinematic effects that are not bound by 2 dimensions. Imaginate
functions either as a standalone product or as an Adobe Premiere plug-in,
with the ability to drop your Imaginate files directly onto the Premiere
timeline for editing and includes alpha channel support for compositing
effects.
Versatility and usability
This product is perfect for videographers, documentary directors,
DVD authoring and creation of motion menus, video annuals, video
montages that have much more than just still after still, or
anything else you can Imaginate. Your video projects will have
an even more professional look and feel with the advanced control
Imaginate allows over photograph and still manipulation. For
added functionality, Imaginate supports a large number of source
files, including Adobe Photoshop (.psd) files, to give you maximum
flexibility and a host of options for your projects.
Features
Pan, zoom, rotate and skew high-resolution stills in 3D.
Render to AVI for compatibility with all editing systems.
High-quality image scaling with Imaginate’s rendering engine
retains details in the sharpest, most precise photos, even during extreme
close ups.
Advanced timeline interface and comprehensive camera control allows
for precise motion paths and sweeping, cinematic effects.
Change camera “locations” to create stills with different
perspectives from your original photos.
Advanced and intuitive GUI simplifies your workflow by allowing you
to modify and control the virtual camera, which makes creating intricate
movement sequences in a snap.
Adobe Premiere plug-in allows you to preview and use Imaginate projects, including
alpha channels, directly on the timeline.
October 2002, Imaginate Service
Pack 1 released
New enhancements include:
User Interface Improvements including the addition of short cut key
displays on menus and added tool tip help for Imaginate plugins.
Usability improvements such as the new ability to use arrow keys for
fine adjustment in the viewfinder and the new ability to crop and add
excess time directly on the timeline.
Addition of a setup dialog and options for the Imaginate Premiere
plugin.
Implementation of the Canopus
Edit RT plugin.
*Registered users can download the upload patch from the registered
users section.
Technical Specifications
Source Formats
JPG (24-bit)
Bmp (8/24/32-bit)
TGA (8/24/32-bit)
Photoshop (.psd)
JPEG Network File (.jng)
Portable Network Graphics File (.png)
Tagged Image File Format (.tif , .tiff)
Amiga IFF Format (.iff , .lbm)
Multiple Network Graphic Files (.mng)
Target Formats
Microsoft AVI (any DirectShow codec)
Microsoft DV
Canopus DV (with existing installation of ProCoder, DVBooster Pack
or Canopus hardware)
Minimum System Requirements
Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional
CPU with MMX Support
64MB System Memory
20MB free hard disk space
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