What Can I do with the Animatics tools?

AniComp in combination with Ardour allows the quick and easy of an Animatic for presenation either within the internal viewer, or exported to the client player.

Animatic Timeline Creation and Composition

• Creation and composition of any number of Image Tracks/Timelines
• Creation of any number of Effect Tracks/Timelines per Image Track
• Create and compose Scenes of Image Frames
• Add and Compose Image Frames to an Aniamtic Timeline
• Manipulate start and duration values visually, or numerically
• Apply additional markup to Image Frames
• Add transitions effects to Image Frames
• Add camera Motion effects to Image Frames (camera pans etc.)
• Drag-and-Drop items visually upon the timeline to set start position and durations
• Visual representation of Image Frame timeline against the audio waveform
• supports multiple Image Repositories with multiple image collections
• Simple Image Repository Navigation and Image Frame selection with the Image Browser
• Extendable Design
• Easy intergration of new view frame motions and transition effects
• Easily extended to include additiona data view
• Framework for additional image respository types

Profession Strength Audio

(The following features are provided by Ardour, to which we have integrated an Image based timeline, see http://ardour.orgfor further information)

• Professional Strength audio Digital Audio Workstation
• Record at any sample rate (44100, 48000, 96000)
  • Limited only by the available hardware
• Access to a wide range of audio plugins

Preview

• Present an Audio and Visual preview at any point in the Animatic development
• Sound and Vision tightly synchronized
• all visual time data received directly from audio information
• driven by underlying, low-latency audio server, for best possible synchronisation

Export

• Export a completed Animatic for playback within a client player
• Export any combination of composes Image Frame timelines
• Export any combination of recorded audio tracks at various sample rates and formats (provided by Ardour)
• Export data file can be made available for playback over the web