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Facts (Oct 97)

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X-DVE

X-DVE v3
The All-In-One Video Effects Program

Our firm is continually updating X-DVE in order to make this leading software the most productive, easy and powerful DTV animation/titling environment on the market.

Features:

  • Intergrated environment with an easy and intuitive mouse-driven interface.
  • Built in support for texts, pictures, animations, image-sequences (no need to paint them externally) and even customizable starfields.
  • Object pre-process with automatic generation of shadow, bevel, outline, 3d border, antialiasing, colour remap, transparence, palette handling etc.
  • Support for animations with a maximum of 100 objects in 10000 frames.
  • Effects as "3D" for rotations, perspectives, zooms and 3D movements. Dozens of "Wind" effects, to generate explosions, vortex, spray. 34 "Slide" effects as pageturn, melt, compression. 40 "Warp" effects, acting like typical pre-programmed 3D sequences.
  • Support of a light source, to make the effects even more attactive.
  • Frame by frame animation preview, with a VCR-Like control panel.
  • Totally independent objects, with separated timings controlled by a timeline editor.
  • Supported resolutions (NTSC/PAL) from 320x200 to 1472x592 super-hires with 256 colours from 16 Millions.
  • Automatic OS3.x DataTypes support for images and sequences (you'll be able to import any known image format).
  • Generation of extra fast XFA animations.
  • Ability to render and save single frames or entire animations in separate IFF files.
  • Code optimized for faster processors and math coprocessors.
  • Free external programs with ARexx interface, to play and convert XFA animations.
  • Free fonts, images, animations and ready-made scripts, for an immediate use in your productions

Neu for version 3.0:

  • Fully compatible with CyberGFX
  • Direct iff/datatypes export/import for XFA anims
  • Faster light mapping
  • New effects
  • Automatic time-line update
  • and much more...

System Requirements:

Any Amiga (or DraCo) with AmigaOS 2.04, min. 4 MB RAM and hard-drive

Price:

298 DM (SRP)

Upgrades:

70 DM from version 2.x to 3.0
130 DM from version 1.x to 3.0

We would be happy to get comments, suggestions and wishes from you. Please send them to:
ClassX@haage-partner.com


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