This software is a real-time 3D animation application that allows users to create animated content and visuals in real-time.
This software enables users to apply images and movies onto ready-to-use objects such as cubes, cylinders, spheres, tubes, pies, rectangles, and disks. One can easily animate these objects by setting key frames. Kinemac allows the user to quickly create 3D text and 2D scrolling text (RTF and RTFD) with any font, color, size, shadows, and embedded images.
The animation control system, based on Bezier curves, in Kinemac, enables users to carefully control any aspect of movement like translations, rotations, fading, speed, acceleration, and deceleration of any object on the stage. The result is a professional and smooth animation that can be played in real-time/full-screen or exported to a QuickTime movie file.
Kinemac has been developed using the latest technologies like the OpenGL engine, QuickTime, and the Cocoa frameworks, making it the ideal application to create advertising for TV, trailers for movies, video clips, instant scrolling messaging to put "on air" in real-time, video content for CD, DVD, and web sites. It has been said that Kinemac is "awesome" to illustrate concepts through 3D animations at conferences, schools, and universities.
However, Kinemac is only available for Mac OS X. The software requires a PowerMac G5 or G4 with MacOS X 10.4 and one of the following video cards: ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition, ATI Radeon 9800 XT (R360), ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350), ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (R300), ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360), ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (RV350), ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (RV M11), NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL (NV40), NVIDIA GeForce Go5200 (NV34M), NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (NV34), or NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL.
The developers have tested Kinemac with a G5 Dual 2GHz with ATI Radeon 9800 XT (256 Video-RAM). However, even on a PowerBook G4, Kinemac runs well with a few objects and with a texture movie 320 x 240. In conclusion, Kinemac is a powerful animation tool for Mac users who want to create professional-looking animations without the complexity of a 3D animation software.
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