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IMAGE/INE Created by Tom Demeyer / STEIM Amsterdam

Image/ine is a program that allows a user to manipulate visual source material in a digital video environment:

• video (live and recorded)
• QuickTime movies
• text
• scanned images
• pict files with alpha channels

Unlike digital video editing programs such as Adobe Premiere, Image/ine works in real time. There is no compression slowdown, no rendering time - the digital filtering effects are immediate and variable.

Image/ine's strength lies in the ability to integrate and combine three basic techniques:

• keying
• image sampling and playback
• image displacement

By combining these techniques with an abundance of input possibilities, variable parameters and a wide range of controllers (there are over 60 parameters and 27 assignable program controllers), Image/ine becomes a dynamic imaging tool. Add to the mix the ability to control all functions with Midi and you have your hands on a powerful performance application.

As a time-based imaging tool, Image/ine allows the user to assign controlling parameters to all the functions of the program. This can range from:

• total computer keyboard control of all functions
• full Midi control of assigned functions
• auto-dynamic control (LFO's)
• unlimited combinations of the above

For example, to scale (zoom in and out) an image you might assign the mouse as the controller, scaling as it moves along the X axis. Or, you might assign scaling to the data slider on your Midi keyboard or you may want it to function auto-dynamically.

Although Image/ine is not an editing program, the composited output can have the appearance of a well-crafted video with a surprising array of effects. The ability to synchronize the program to a (midi) clock and capture the output makes it possible to us Imagine/ine as a non-real time video effects machine as well.

As of release 1.2 Image/ine supports a (proprietary) Plugin architecture which allows extending both the effects section and the control section of the program. The Plugin SDK is available on request.