Titler
The Digital Video illustrator has an advanced, high-resolution titling function, with a full keyboard, a palette of 256 colors, a variety of special effects, and a GPI interface for compatibility with professional editors. The 24 built-in fonts have variable sizes, outlines and borders. Many more fonts, including character groups of several languages, are available on separate cartridges. Titles can scroll, wipe and fade in several speeds, and are easily combined with live video and graphics.
Paint Box
With the Digital Video illustrator's painting function, 256 colors and an infinite variety of shapes are available for creating the most intricate and exciting graphic art. You can fill any shape with color at the click of the mouse, and even change colors in different segments of the same shape. Drawings are easy to copy, edit and move around the screen to compose complex illustrations. Designs can scroll, wipe and fade in several speeds, just like text, and are easily combined with live video images.
Frame Grabber
The Digital Video illustrator is the only special effects machine in its class with an advanced Frame Grabber technology for digitizing and "freezing" video images. You can "grab" images from all video sources: VCRs, video disk players, even live camcorder shots. Once an image is "grabbed", you can manipulate it in virtually any way imaginable, adding graphics and text with the Paint Box and Titler functions. If you "grab" and store several images of one subject, you can combine them into an animation sequence. Imagine: you can create animations with a face, a building, a car - or any other video images. The Frame Grabber also lets you capture printed characters, logos and text from any language in the world - no ordinary character generator can do that! And you can easily stylize the text after you "grab" it with the Paint Box function - for example, you can create posterization effects, 3-D effects, or multi-color shadowing.
Animator
The Digital Video illustrator is like a miniature animation studio in a box! State-of-the-art technology provides you with a unique ability to create your own professional-quality animation sequences. Create cartoons, animated titles, advertising displays, corporate presentations - your imagination is the only limitation! You can also create a library of animations by storing them on the removeable, blank cartridges available.
Feature Summary:
General
S-VHS & Hi-8 compatibility
GPI editing compatibility
Inputs: 1 A/V; 1 "S" video
Outputs: 1 A/V; 1 "S" video
Resolution: 720*480 (NTSC)
720*572 (PAL)
Simple on-screen icon menus
Output preview
Additional memory available on separate cartridges
Blank cartridges available for storing images
Animator
Advanced technology for studio-quality animations
Easy to create and manipulate images
Sequences up to 64 frames
Titler
Multiple built-in fonts with choice of sizes
156 characters per font
More font libraries available on separate cartridges
Multi-language characters available on cartridges
256 colors per screen
256 outline & border colors
Unlimited backdrop patterns
Wipes, fades, scrolls & line shifts
Variable character positions
Frame Grabber
Digitizes and "freezes" images from any video source
Allows graphics & text to be mixed with digitized images
"Grabs" multi-language texts
Paint Box
Variable length straight lines
Variable size rectangles
Variable size circles
Freehand drawing
256 colors per screen
Instant color fill-ins
Instant color changes
Unlimited backdrop patterns
"Clip art" images available on separate cartridges
Easy to copy & move objects
Wipes, fades & scrolls