CompuServe Thread

Mitch, You were asking about RAZOR PRO's features – Here's some of them: Features: -An infinite number of layers of video clips and stills can be composited together -An infinite number of audio tracks can be composited together -Video clips and stills can be up to 2000×2000 pixels -Can read and write ANI files (created by the Personal Animation Recorder) -Can read and write DVM files (created by the TARGA 2000) -Can read and write sequences of Targa files in any color depth up to 32 bit -Can read and write BMP files in any color depth up to 32 bit -Can read and write FLC and FLI files -Can read and write AVI files using any Video for Windows installable compressor/decompressor such as the Microsoft Video 1, Cinepak and Intel Indeo codecs -Can read and write WAV audio files -Convert files between any of the following formats: ANI, DVM, AVI, BMP, TGA, FLC, FLI, WAV, PAL -Audio can be up to CD quality -Each audio clip has a volume graph allowing you to alter the colume of that clip over time -Source materials, transitions, and effects are all stored in the Library for easy project management -RAZOR PRO comes with a number of digital effects which can be applied to images including color correction, tint, brighness, contrast, glass, displacement, pixelate, emboss, invert -RAZOR PRO accepts third party plug-ins such as Elastic Reality's transjammer, Aldus Gallery Effects and Kai's Power tools -Effects can be applied to more than one source -Sub pixel rendering for incredibly smooth motion -Video clips can be combined using alpha channel, chroma key, still or travelling mattes -RAZOR PRO comes with a number of transitions including wipes, cross fades, luminance fades and matte fades where an image is used to perform a fade over time -Customizable wipe transition that wipes in any direction and angle and even allows you to change the angle of the wipe during the wipe -Effects and transitions are stackable so that they can be applied to the result of an effect or the result of a transition. There is no limit to the number of effects which can be applied to a clip -Transitions can be applied between two or more clips allowing you for instance to apply transitions between picture in a picture clips at the same time as applying a transition between two background clips -Transition and effects are rendered using true field rendering eg wipes are filed rendered giving smooth wipes -Output the files without a background (in 32 bit) -Use the character Generator to create titles for your project. Uses any truetype font in any size, style, color. -Can also be used with matte effect in order to create textured text -Use the DVE generator to move and rotate images and text around the screeen in three dimensions. Uses sub pixel positioning for ultra smooth motion -Use the RAZOR tool to cut up clips -Trim a clip whilst maintaining the relative position of all the other clips If you've got any questions, please feel free to ask… Jamie Carr in:sync

Hansoo, To play back a PAR file with audio, go into the media player and open the PAR ANI file. Then go to 'Configure' under the Device menu and you will see an option to attach a sound file to the ANI animation. Press play on the media player and the ANI file will play back with the sound. Jamie Carr in:sync