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{.5 V t lj tive years ago into a market which for all concerned. range of applications including making
ji hardly knew what I TV graphics Over the last 15 months there have animation sequences.
· ji “‘ machine could do. Then. as now. other been two major software releases, PRO4, Further help towards frame animation
xg machines were mostly computer based and the latest, PRO4.06. The first, besides is given in facilities Auto Save and Auto
Ii rather than dedicated tools. Having bringingahostof newfeatures, significant- Fetch. Auto Save freezes and records §j_
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;; jg;} computer graphics towards the benefits second has introduced a further new range quence. Playing out Auto Fetch presents V
gl of a TV graphics system. the Paintbox of facilities and enhancements. pictures in numeric sequence on pen tap
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4 ·_ changes to the Peintbox since then. previous software versions with the major with a VTR via an animation controller
I ?§ Nearly all the long list of enhancements modes displayed at the left and the rele- such as the Lyon Lamb or VES. With such ~
T Q Q3 have come in the form of software so al vant subordinate functions appearing to a setup, video clips can be automatically
‘ yea 8 users cen benefit. Some external evoIu· the right. ln this way the menus are kept loaded into Faintbox, retouched or
a tkmery changes have occurred such as uncluttered despite the fact that there are whatever in the usual Paintbox way, and
tf? the introduction of the removeable disk over 300 functions available in all. Stencil re·recorded frame by frame back on to
O Z3 system (RSD) and a new touch tablet functions are made available in all menus tape again using the Auto Fetch. The
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», fj The success of the Paintbox is simp· The initial concept of the Paintbox are extremely useful for defocusing or
_2;; ly related to the ease with which graphics was that it should completely hide the sharpening an area of picture and are just
`; designers can explore its many facets to 'digital' and 'computer' technology from right for emphasising a particular item or
gig fi produce high quality graphics efficiently. the user so the artist can concentrate on the depth of the picture. The field brush
J j fj Software changes have been made always creative matters. PRO4 introduced allows the selection of picture information
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V “ forever grateful for the useful comments, with PASTATS. This shows the figures removing interfield motion flicker in the _
pointers, and hints that designers give us. which define the >< and y position, magni· brushed Brea.
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to fix a mistake without having to lose all right of the menu. li means that there is an extension of Painibox or Paintbox an ex- `_ v_,‘_
ng the work since thelast save picture opera- less need to refer to the keyboard and tension of HBWY? li really d¤esn‘t matter `f` =§,··
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popular for a host of other uses. For ex- in unanticipated ways. For example, con- other. It rs rare. if ever. that such close
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ji? ` with so many of the Paintbox functions, Frame grabbing has been improved Another important interface is given i fi:
T V the graphics designers are forever ex· with the introduction of frame averaging. by ihé ml¤f0fl0l€>DV disk. This can hold one · Z2:
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a ; `i enhancements. For instance Effects MANY box allows e new average to be Palnibox for producing TV viewer guides _ y
4.;. = lmosiae, overlay, Reid and colour map) can made each time the pen is tapped. So, pro- OT translating image from television adver-
7}] l ;r be limited to a chosen rectangle and can vided the image holds still, noise can be Using campaigns to coordinated adver-
be restricted by stencil. Fiework enables greatly reduced. But, once again, the USBMGHTS in Dflnwd media.
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