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GlobeCaster

Animator / Compositor

Paint, Animation and Compositing

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Before your clients even sit down with you, they've been bombarded with thousands of quality graphics on network television. Today, anything less just won't do, that's why more and more video professionals rely on GlobeCaster's powerul paint, animation and compositing system.

 
     

Its fully object-oriented graphics engine gives you a comprehensive set of tools for complete control of the create process. Paint with smooth airbrushes in 3D perspective and multiple layers. Use adjustable light sources to cast soft-edge shadows while drawing. Quickly create custom stencils and mattes with a variety of brushes and keyers. And that's just the beginning.

Broadcast news, TV show and live event producers, online editors and corporate video producers everywhere are using GlobeCaster Animator/Compositor to communicate their messages more powerfully and affordably than they ever thought possible. Experience GlobeCaster for yourself and discover how the GlobeCaster Animator/Compositor can elevate your production capabilities.

KEY FEATURES

  • Fully non-destructive paint, rotoscope, animation and compositing tool set
  • Particle system dynamics provide easy real-world motion, including velocity, gravity and friction
  • Airbrush directly onto live video with variable transparency and broadcast-quality anti-aliasing.
 

SPECIFICATIONS

     
 

Animation

  • Animate any attribute of any stroke
  • Rotoscoping or keyframe based animation
  • Linear, hold and spline-based keyframe interpolants
  • Particle system animation including velocity, gravity, friction and collisions
  • Field and frame based animation
  • Scrolling, scaleable, thumbnail-based timeline
  • Insert loop and pause points
  • Sub-pixel positioning and animation for smooth motion and high-quality anti-aliasing
 
     
     
 

Media Management

  • Find, sift and sort functions
  • List, detail, clip and variable size thumbnail bin views
  • Unlimited number of bins
  • Bin heirarchy (nestable folders)
  • Share content across Windows networks
 
     
     
 

Paint

  • Object-oriented paint, every operation and stroke is modifiable and keyframeable
  • Operate natively using standard 24-bit RGB or ITU-R 601 (Y/Cr/Cb) colour spaces
  • 256 levels of transparency
  • Shape-based and freehand drawing tools
  • Smooth air brushes
  • Adjustable soft-edge shadows
  • Unlimited customisable brushes
  • Lighten, darken, colourise, blur, randomise, erase, clone, gradient, magnify, stretch, image, lima colour, alpha map and colour correct inks
  • Display RGB or HSV colour model
  • Eyedropper tool selects any colour on screen
  • Flexible colour gradient tool creates linear, 4-corner, 4-side, circular, horizontal, vertical and arbitrary angle colour washes
  • Apply subsets of stroke attributes to other strokes
  • Paint over live video with variable transparency
  • Safe title, safe action and centre point overlay
  • Adjustable grid snap
  • Undo / redo
  • Configurable on-screen size, position, pointer, keyframe and path indicators
  • Graphics tablet support
 
     
     
 

Compositing

  • Stencil and matte creation
  • Unlimited chroma and luma keys
  • Import external 8-bit linear keys
  • 3D perspective corner layer and paint
  • Move, rotate, scale and shear 3D paint layers
  • AVI and Quicktime import and export
  • Import and export 16 still formats supported including JPEG, BMP, PSD and TGA.
     
     
 

Character Generator

  • Real-time roll, crawl, flash, twist, flip horizontal, flip vertical, zoom, pop and fade text effects
  • Sub-nanosecond anti-aliasing
  • Auto-correct spell checker
  • User defined styles
  • Free form positioning, layer and size
  • 32-bit image compositing
  • Sophisticated type treatments
  • Over 100 Bitstream fonts included
  • Direct support for Truetype fonts
  • Import TXT, RTF and Microsoft Word (DOC) text files
     
     
 

Integrated Still / Clip Store

  • Uncompressed digital component still store
  • Less than 1/2 second still store recall
  • Full frame motion removal
  • Import / export 16 still formats supported including JPG, BMP, PSD and TGA
  • Optional dual-channel clip store holds up to 2 hours of broadcast quality video and audio