Kinemac

Kinemac Publisher's Description:
Kinemac is a real time, 3D animation and presentation program that allows you to create your own professional 3D animations with the simplicity of a 2D presentation tool.

Just drag your images, texts, movies and songs onto the Kinemac stage to get them into your animation. Kinemac allows you to apply images and movies onto the ready–to-use objects like cubes, cylinders, spheres, tubes, pies, rectangles, disks... which you can easily animate by setting key frames. Also, it lets you quickly create 3D Text and 2D scrolling text (RTF and RTFD) with any kind of font, color, size, shadows, embedded images...

A powerful animation control system based on Bezier curves allows you to carefully control any aspect of the movement such as translations, rotations, resizing, fading, speed, acceleration and deceleration of any object on the stage. The result is a professional and smooth animation which you can play in real-time/full-screen or export to a QuickTime movie file.

Kinemac uses 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, web sites... Also it has been said to be "awesome" to illustrate concepts through 3D animations at conferences, schools and universities. Kinemac is for Mac OS X only.

Supports the following Video cards:
# ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition (recommended)
# ATI Radeon 9800 XT (R360) (recommended)
# ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350) (recommended)
# ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (R300)
# ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)
# ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (RV350)
# ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (RV M11)
# ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (RV M100
# NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL (NV40)
# NVIDIA GeForce Go5200 (NV34M)
# NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (NV34)
# NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL

We have tested it on a G5 Dual 2GHz with ATI Radeon 9800 XT (256 Video-RAM). Even on a PowerBook G4, Kinemac runs well with a few objects and with a texture movie 320 x 240.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.6 release notes are available.