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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Retail News / Sales => Topic started by: kwoodall on August 14, 2007, 03:53:13 PM
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Cinematte is being offered for sale - this sale is for the binaries, source code, documentation, copyrights and trademarks to Cinematte – a high-end Photoshop plug-in for highly realistic photo compositing and matting.
The eBay link will go up later this week on Nova's site at http://www.novadesign.com
In short, what Cinematte does, is allow you to easily make complex photo-realistic composites of subjects that are photographed against a blue, or green, screen background. Cinematte uses the same sophisticated techniques used worldwide in motion picture technology for precise blue screen compositing. Cinematte allows you to keep soft edges, translucent smoke, motion blurs and all categories of semi-transparent edges and surfaces in your composite. However, if you want to know more, you’ll find details below.
Are you a programmer looking to jump into business for yourself? Cinematte is a product looking for someone who can upgrade, market and support it. Being a plug-in for Photoshop means you can leverage Adobe’s developer support network and the marketing channels are far easier to cover than general software product.
Are you a current software company looking to expand your product line? Cinematte is for you. It is well documented, it has standard Photoshop interface controls, and it interacts with Photoshop’s batch processing and actions. Cinematte does well as a standalone product line, but would also make a perfect addition to any multimedia or graphics package.
Cinematte has had a successful run on the market, but our company closed up several years ago and we have been selling our intellectual property since that time. Why are we selling through eBay? Simple, we were never financial wizards and the worldwide exposure of eBay is undeniable. Cinematte never saturated the market as it was a tertiary market for our company and had only modest marketing behind it.
If you’re wondering about upgrades and where to start, Cinematte has coding just waiting for you! Our Amiga version, which was part of our flagship ImageFX product on the Amiga computer, included several major features never implemented in the Windows and Macintosh version. It offered four additional screen colors for optical/digital compositing, an alternate compositing method that worked with any color of background, and other compositing/matting solutions and enhancements.
It is worth nothing that Cinematte is also an established and respected brand. It’s had glowing reviews worldwide. Here are some comments:
"Cinematte is your perfect introduction to the concept of bluescreen image compositing!"
- Canvangelist
"Cinematte's automation is good, and can often achieve a perfect result without adjustment!"
- Digit magazine
"Cinematte is great for those seeking a PhotoShop bluescreen plug-in and it's priced right."
- DV magazine
"With Cinematte, high-end blue and green screen compositing within PhotoShop is a snap."
- NT Studio magazine
When the deal is complete you will get three source code packages. One for the Macintosh, one for Windows, and the source code to our original Amiga version. All are commented and documented. You’ll also get commercial samples, all the original artwork and documentation, and we’ll sign over all copyrights and trademarks to you or your company.
We’ll remain available to answer any question that we can field, and if you have technical questions, the original programmer of the plug-in is available on a consulting basis.
DETAILS
Cinematte – The Whole Story (as told through our marketing copy)
In today's highly-competitive photographic, video graphic and cinema graphic world, the rapid, seamless melding of scene elements through the application of blue screen keying can make or break any project. You could spend hours with Photoshop’s tools or use primitive 'flood fill' or 'Chroma-keying' methods - but these would sacrifice quality and time. That is - until Cinematte appeared on the scene!
Nova Design's amazing Cinematte is a Photoshop plug-in for your blue and green screen compositing needs. By allowing you to flawlessly composite people or objects photographed against blue or green screens into stock photographs, 3D rendered backgrounds, and more, it is perfect for videographers, digital photographers or anyone! Cinematte brings the ultimate power of professional workstation level compositing to the desktop at a bargain price! (For Windows and Macintosh Platforms)
Cinematte Features
* Macintosh OS 8.6 through OS X compatible
* Works with PhotoShop Elements through PhotoShop CS and PaintShop Pro from JASC
* Large preview mode option for detail work
* Uses and supports PhotoShop layers and Actions
* Totally resolution independent - works on any size RGB image up to 20mb in size
* Supports both blue and green screen backgrounds
* Sophisticated color-spill algorithms
* Foreground color protection keeps your colors accurate
* Multiple output options for keyed foregrounds, mattes and more
For the Studio
With time lines looming and budgets blooming, any professional studio knows that the software it relies on is worth its weight in gold. With this in mind, Nova Design's Cinematte stands tall, integrating into your studios existing Photoshop setup with its acclaimed easy-to-use interface.
While other solutions require expensive third party hardware add-ons, complex external effects boxes, or require difficult to use interfaces, Cinematte integrates itself easily into your existing Photoshop environment. Whether you prefer Windows or Macintosh, Cinematte is there for you. And by working with your Photoshop setup, Cinematte allows more advanced features than other solutions, by enabling you to seamlessly utilize the rest of Photoshop with Cinematte, granting you unheard of flexibility in your productions.
Cinematte adds a missing 'key' for delivering the best blue and green screen keying and compositing available today. By providing this service on a budget, Cinematte provides you the answer to that age old question “High Quality or Low Cost?” With Cinematte, the answer is that you can get both!
As for quality, Cinematte stands with the best in the business. With Cinematte, your projects come out looking as if you spent a fortune in post production. Only you will know the money you saved thanks to Nova Design's Cinematte.
For the Independent
Your income depends on how well your last presentation went, how sharp it looks, and how seamless it comes across. Thanks to Cinematte, you can step forward, offering new techniques, new services, giving you a whole new range of options to net you the next assignment. And it does this on your terms and on your budget.
Sure PhotoShop has a wealth of tools for compositing, but to produce high quality work takes time which also means money. Cinematte enhances your abilities by giving you the capability of high-quality blue screen or green screen compositing that works in a few clicks. Cinematte can pay for itself in your first job!
Nova Design's Cinematte integrates smoothly into PhotoShop, granting whole new levels of artistic expression as well as a practical solution for the bottom line. No longer at the mercy of rental houses, or of proprietary equipment, you have the freedom to pursue your goal without the worry of being out-done by your competition.
For the time and money you will save, Cinematte is the best investment you will find for your business. By granting you the power of easy composites without weighing you down with expensive and non-portable solutions, Cinematte is the right blue screen keying solution for you.
Interface
The goal in Cinematte's interface is ease of use combined with precise and reproducible results. The interface is designed to look and work like any standard PhotoShop filter. The controls work just like you'd expect them to work. You can use region controls for pixel-level precision via the eyedroppers, use the sliders for an interactive control with the real-time preview, or enter exact values in the numeric entry area.
This is a key feature for photographers or anyone needing to process multiple images. You need to know what you did so you can do it again - image after image. Towards this we also fully support PhotoShop Actions and batch processing as well.
Blue Spill
Blue spill occurs when blue light is reflected, or 'spilled' onto your foreground subject. While good lighting can prevent this, you won't always be able to have control over the lighting, or you may get your images from someone else. Cinematte can help you here. Cinematte has the best controls for correcting for blue spill and can even preserve color fidelity.
Matte Adjustments
If you have poorly lit images, images given to you that are poorly photographed, Cinematte has very versatile controls for helping you get the best composite anyway. You can adjust the controls to soften your matte or even pull it in to eliminate fringing and other problems around the edges.
Light Correction
Unique to Cinematte is our Light Color replacement feature. This allows you to change the color of the lighting cast on your foreground subject. You can use this to make the foreground subject match the lighting for the background you're compositing them into - or even use it as an additional tool for correcting blue spill.
Protection
Classic optical blue screening, the basis of Cinematte's algorithms, couldn't do one thing. It couldn't keep the blue (or green) in foreground subjects where it was desired. Since Cinematte operates in the digital space it is able to do far more than classic blue screening or chromakeyers. It can protect the color fidelity in practically the worst images!
Easy to Use, Powerful Results
A PhotoShop standard interface, with online help, lets you create transparencies easily and quickly. Simple, straightforward, and standard controls let you work in an integrated real time preview so you can see the results of your work instantly! The results speak for themselves – in fact, we used it to create our box artwork and every sample you’ll find on our web site.
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OK, but is it in anyway related to Amiga?
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>> OK, but is it in anyway related to Amiga?
Well, from the article, I'd have to say yes:
"Our Amiga version, which was part of our flagship ImageFX product on the Amiga computer ... you will get three source code packages. One for the Macintosh, one for Windows, and the source code to our original Amiga version."
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I would have to say ...YES its def. AMIGA related.
Its nice to see NOVA Design still around.. :-) and I love
Image FX :-)
Rich
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