CompuServe Messages

ASDG I have been a LOYAL ASDG customer for a few years now – I just read a message from Harv Laser – his NAB report- and was thoroughly DISGUSTED to hear about 3!!!? new products for the Mac/Indigo- they sounded very slick and sophisticated – with serious GUI'S. My question is =- ARE YOU FOR REAL?? I asked about a serious upgrade to Adpro over a year ago and was told it was coming – now I see where your priorities went. I OWN ImageFX, ImageMaster and ADpro. ImageFX has my vote of confidence right now, and after this news, will get an even STRONGER recommendation from me. I AM NOT PLEASED. (although I'm glad I didn't send in the $50 for the upgrade to 2.3 yet) HERE'S PART OF HARV'S POST: " another ASDG booth. Here, Perry & Gina and crew had no Amigas but they were showing three new products for the Mac and SGI machines – "Elastic Reality – a Third Generation Morphing System" looked like Morph Plus with some pretty snazzy enhancements. I watched programmer Paul demo it on an SGI Indigo. And I gently fondled this lovely, purple, $20,000 machine as he did so. Instead of vectors and edges it uses bezier curve drawing tools and splines. Very sexy stuff. "No Strings Attached" another new product is an Automatic Wire and Scratch Removal program using AI routines. Let's say you've shot footage of a model airplane against a background suspended by wires or filament lines. This program will go thru the frames and intelligently remove the wires and lines and fill in the background seamlessly. Again, SGI only. "Image Independence" looks like the ADPro image conversion stuff ported to Mac and SGI, with a difference – its graphical interface can be incorporated into other programs giving them the ability to read and write any supported image-file format." Michael Smith