TITLE

EGS-TV Professional

VERSION

5.0a

AUTHOR

Helmut Hoffmann
Rubensstrasse 4
41063 Moenchengladbach
Germany EMail: hhoff@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

DESCRIPTION

An animation, framegrabbing, handyscanner and Blue Screen effect software for the EGS graphical environment. This software enables all EGS users (e.g. users of the typical EGS graphic boards as Piccolo, Piccolo-SD64, EGS-Spectrum, EGS-110, ...) to create and edit animations direct on harddisk, grab pictures and sequences from several framegrabbers, access some handyscanners or apply the Blue screen effect to pictures/sequences.

Supported framegrabbers:
1) VLab (std., Y/C and parallelport versions of MacroSystems framegrabber)
2) IV24 (GVPs Impact Vision)
3) VideoCruncher (Ing.buero Helfrich)

Single or multiple frames can be grabbed from such framegrabbers and combined with loaded frames into sequences/animations on harddisk.

Supported handyscanners:
1) Cameron (black&white and greyscale)
2) Reisware (black&white and greyscale)
3) ScanKing (black&white and greyscale)

As scanner interfaces only Cameron and Reisware interfaces are supported. For animation creation or extension pictures or whole directories of pictures can be imported in the following file formats:

1) IFF-ILBM (1 to 24Bit incl. HAM6/HAM8)
2) JPeg (color and greyscale)
3) PPM/PGM/PBM (P1&P4 b&w, P5 grey, P6 color)
4) QRT (also known as dump format by PD raytracers as POV-Ray)
5) Targa
6) PCX
7) BMP (uncompressed)
8) TIF (packbit-compr./uncompr.)
9) EGS7.x window icons
10) DEEP
11) YUV
12) VLAB raw
13) RGB
14) HHsYUVSq sequence format
15) IFF-PBM (DPII)
16) ACBM
17) FBM
18) Sun raster (uncompressed)
19) MacPaint (b&w compressed 1Bit format; datafork only)
20) HHsXRL formats

The additional DataType support extends this list by many formats; DataTypes can e.g. be found on Aminet in util/DType. Pictures can be downscaled during import. Animations/sequences can be edited directly on harddisk: new frames can be inserted/appended and frames can be deleted. Frames can also be directly imported from ImageFX or ImageFX-EGS. Frames can be directly exported to ImageFX, ImageFX-EGS, PicoPainter, ArtEffect, XiPaint, TVPaint or to Clipboard. Saving of individual frames is also possible in several formats (e.g. JPeg, IFF-ILBM24, ...). Animations can be played back at selectable speeds forward and backward. The Blue Screen keying effect allows the conbination of several image sources into one picture. This can e.g. be used to combine a picture from framegrabber with some blue background with another background picture, so that the blue background is replaced. The colour range can be selected by several parameters.

NEW FEATURES

New since V5.0: Support for VideoCruncher

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

OS2.04 required, OS3.0/3.1 reccomended (needed for DataType support) 6MBytes memory EGS system 6.0 or higher (usual in conjunction with one of the graphic boards, but it can also be used with the EGS for all Amigas without any graphic board) The EGS system (6.0 and 7.1) can be found for ftp access on "orion.etsu.edu" in the pub/amiga/egs section.

AVAILABILITY

Any Aminet site
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gfx/board/egstv50a.lha Also available on:
ftp://orion.etsu.edu/pub/egs/incoming/egstv50a.lha
which should later be /egs/graphics/...

PRICE

Shareware fee: 40DM (in europe) or 33US$ (worldwide) for the Professional version. 25DM (in europe) or 25US$ (worldwide) for the Classical version, which does not include harddisk sequence editing, timing controls or JPeg saving.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

Copyright by Helmut Hoffmann 1994-1995 Limited demo version is freely distributable; registered users will receive a keyfile which enables all features.

OTHER

The freely distributable version has some restrictions which disappear after you pay the shareware fee and receive a special personal keyfile (together with the latest version). Once registered, you can use new freely distributable versions as update with your keyfile.