The Klangfarben Player software enables users to play interactive multimedia content with a focus on sound color. It offers an immersive audiovisual experience that enhances the overall quality of media consumption.
Klangfarben Player offers a host of features to users. One of the most versatile features is the Movie Composer that offers an unlimited number of movie and picture layers, unbounded output formats from 10*10 to 6400*6400 Pixel, color depths in 8, 16, and 32 Bits, optional 8 Bit Alphachannel, framerates from 1 to 512 fps, full frames, and all Quicktime supported compressors, MOV, AVI, and MPEG in particular. The audio track features a 44.1 kHz, 16 Bit, 2-channel audio format.
Realtime Editing is another useful feature that offers videocapture options via FireWire or PCI/USB supported, audio signal processing from CD or microphone, MIDI-command in- and output, and up to 4 video channel set-up. The software also offers Video Effects such as realtime dissolves, chroma keying, rotation, resize, and filter, brightness, contrast, blur, and direct pixel manipulation, Picture-in-Picture, Movie matte, and Paint tool.
Klangfarben Player also features Wordprocessing capabilities that offer full access to all fonts, antialiased text, selectable type, position, size, color, and justification, and ASCII file processing. Users can also communicate through the software by transferring data between several computers via ethernet, especially sending and receiving images, network synchronization, and frame-accurate movie playback, connecting up to 32 computers, and sending string commands via serial communication.
The software has a Programming Language that comes with symbolic syntax, graphical editor for structure charts (DIN 66261), loop, if, case, functions, equations, and subroutines, local and global variables, direct access to pixel and sound data (256–fold FFT, BPM counter, level, and raw data), reads mouse, keyboard, and more USB-devices, and all variables and functions can be connected to MIDI-commands. The software also has Multithreading capabilities that allow you to run programs and compose effects at the same time.
Klangfarben Player requires a PPC 601, MacOS 7.5, Quicktime 3.0, and 20 MB free RAM. Overall, Klangfarben Player is an excellent software that provides an array of features that can be useful for multimedia authoring and interactive content creation.
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