Animaq for Macintosh with QuickPass (TM)
Software-Only VTR-Control, Professional Animation Recording,
Special Effects, QuickTime® Production
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Key Features
- Frame Accurate Recording
- Frame Accurate Digitizing
- 2D & 3D Animation Sequencing
- Digital Effects & Rotoscoping
- QuickTime Movie Production
- NTSC and PAL
- Uncompressed Quality
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Diaquest, the industry leader in frame accurate video machine control for animation, effects, and QuickTime movie production, announces powerful software-only animation control products for the Macintosh.
Animaq for Macintosh with QuickPass provides frame-accurate recording and video capture. Animaq supports both current and future hardware and requires no scarce expansion slots.
Animaq is ideal for animators and effects designers requiring the highest quality frame accurate recording and video capture. Animation sequences created using popular paint, effects, multimedia, 2D and 3D animation software can be loaded from the computer to supported frame buffers and recorded to videotape.
When used with compatible videographics cards, video images and image sequences can be captured frame accurately, with or without compression, for rotoscoping, animated effects, and high quality QuickTime movie production.
Animaq remotely controls a wide range of professional and broadcast videotape recorders as well as leading frame buffers and digitizers. Contact Diaquest for specific information on supported video machines and frame buffer/digitizers.
QuickPass
- QuickPass radically speeds the frame accurate recording and digitizing process by performing multiple edits or digitizes on each preroll pass.
- QuickPass substantially reduces wear on video equipment.
- Animaq for Macintosh with QuickPass is the fastest, least costly, highest quality solution for full resolution video capture, image processing, and animation recording.
Animaq for Macintosh with QuickPass software radically reduces the time required for creating full resolution, uncompressed video effects, QuickTime movies and frame-accurate animation. QuickPass also greatly reduces the time required for high quality desktop CD ROM and multimedia production.
With QuickPass, frame by frame input or output of uncompressed, broadcast quality images can be achieved at close to real time speeds. QuickPass gives professional solutions offering the highest image quality, in the least time, and at a lower cost, as compared with real-time or disk-based alternatives.
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Animaq's screen provides convenient layoff and digitizing. Menu functions allow batch recording and digitizing for a wide variety of image file types.
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Minimum System Requirements
Macintosh Computers