ImageFX versus Photoshop?!

[jd997uk]

@The_Editor
Hey, I've got both versions of Brilliance and as far as I'm concerned it's in a league of its own. Rock solid stability, and easy to learn/use. A big plus is the was the menu system can be switched around useing the numeric keypad, a, err, brilliant idea.

Unfortunately, Digital Creations (the publishers) were swallowed by Play Inc, who subsequently went bust. So unless there is someone out there who knows any of the original programmers, the chances of anyone re-sourcing a program written in 100% Assembler is pretty remote.
Bear in mind I paid £140 for Brilliance 1 and a further£40 for Brilliance 2, I'd quite happily pay over £100 again for an updated PPC/RTG version, but sadly I cannot see it happening.

Oh (swerving wildly back on topic), IFX vs Photoshop. Anything like this is always subjective, it's difficult sometimes to pick app X over app Y. Anyway I use both regularly. Batch processing wise, there is no competition, IFX stomps mercylessly all of Adobe's effort (in fact it's so one-sided that IFX could be accused of bullying :-D ). Each of the apps have many merits of their own, but for me, I prefer the way IFX does things.

-john

[jd997uk]

@Bobsonsirjonny

I mean is it possible to get it to batch process frames 001 to 093 leaving 093 and upwards alone. That would be dead cool if it can.

Yup, piece of cake. AutoFX (IFX's batch processor) can do that and more.
AutoFX is file rather than drawer (folder) orientated, so if you had a drawer with say 1000 files in it, you select only the ones you want to process. It's so easy it's scary. The other thing is your files can be in different folders and still be batch processed together. Very flexible. I'm getting my PC updated to an AthlonXP1800 today and I'm looking forward to running IFX on UAE. I'v got a big animation I want to do which uses the IFX cloud generator, a starfield generator, the PanCanvas and TimeMachine plugins and then Cinemorph to form a transition between two animations. All this is a little too much for my 1200/060 and I'm hoping that I'll get a decent speed increase as at DVD resolution (720x576) it'll take forever otherwise.

-john

[jd997uk]

@Bobsonsirjonny

Can you specify it to work on odd frames or even frames - could you make a selection and can it duplicate that selection over and over on other files/frames and colour that selection acordingly.

Yup. When AutoFX starts up, you direct it to the Drawer where your files are located and select what you want, as many time as you want.

Is it then possible to render the frames out as a .avi or .mov

Off the top of my head MPEG and FLI animation support is offered, but my personal choice is to save the frames out and load them into an appropriate PC package.

-john