MovingPicture is a tool for making smooth pans and zooms on hi-res stills. It is available as a standalone app or plug-in for most popular nonlinear editing systems on Mac and Windows
Pans and Zooms from Hi-Res Stills
MovingPicture is a tool for documentary and industrial filmmakers to pan and zoom on high-resolution images (up to 4,000 by 4,000 pixels), ala "Ken Burns". Rather than use, an expensive and bulky motion-control rig or animation stand, often requiring expensive photographic prints, MovingPicture takes high-resolution scanned images and allows for perfectly repeatable pans and zoom moves on a desktop computer.
MovingPicture is very simple to use. The image appears on the screen. Dragging and sizing a framing box icon on top of it changes the view, adding key frames onto the timeline.
You can preview the motion in real time without any rendering, so the design process is very rapid. All motion paths are smooth, splined and tapered. Motion is field rendered to sub-pixel accuracies.
We offer two versions of MovingPicture: as a plug-in to a nonlinear editing system; and as a standalone program (The Producer) for creating digital movie files.
MovingPicture Plug-in
The MovingPicture Plug-in works from within most major nonlinear editing systems to enable you to create smooth moves directly from the editor's timeline. There are no movie files to import and the moves can be instantly changed and saved with the show.
MovingPicture Producer
The MovingPicture Producer is a standalone program that does not require a host editor to run. It can easily create movie files from almost any computer. This is particularly useful when your editor is not one of the ones we support or you wish to create shots on a different computer without tying up your costly editor.
Macintosh-based versions produce QuickTime movie files, while Windows versions create AVI movie files using any codec you have.
MovingPicture Producer can also be used as an offline means for working out moves on a separate computer, such as the producer's laptop. You can save the motion paths to a disk for easy import into any rendering version of MovingPicture, increasing productivity and freeing up the costly editing system.
