Popims Animator 4.00 new functions
The most important new features are the Auto Alignment algorithms, and the Combination function. Auto Alignment procedure has been completely renewed and is now available in the free version. It is a fantastic change for all those who want to create a 3D effect, either for lenticular printing or for all types of stereo-vision (e.g. anaglyphs or stereo pairs). This function is very clever. It analyses the content of all opened images, and enhance the stability of the series, just as if you had been using travelling rail while moving around the scenery. It makes it possible to create perfect 3D images with a simple video or still image camera: just shoot a film or pictures while turning slowly around the subject, open the video or still image files with Animator and click on the AutoAlign button. Your 3D is ready for printing. You can use it right away, without creating any transition point, but you can also add some specific transition points to follow your imagination. Play with all options and you will be surprised by the extremely professional result. Popims new Combiner allows combining still images such as backgrounds and cut-out portraits, but also all types of animated gifs and Popims 3D animations, resizing all these components and displaying them exactly where you want. You can play with transparencies, add text of all types (font, color, depth). With the new version, you can view and edit each step of your work. Just add components and determine a depth parameter for each of them. By using transparent colors, you can create fantastic "false 3D" just by combining several elements together (e.g. a background picture, a video portrait, a frame, your animated logo, etc.). A major enhancement of this function is that you can at all times edit any component, because you can switch very easily between the animation window and the new combination window. This led to a new type of files : the "pims" files that are combinations, different from the animation files themselves, that still use the "pim" suffix. Compatibility has been maintained with combinations computed with previous versions of Animator. Popims Infinity This patent pending function is available in the new Combiner window. Just click on the name of a component, choose "Element Properties" with the right button of your mouse, and click on the "Popims Infinity" checkbox. Your component, will be moving continuously in the chosen direction, at the speed corresponding to your "multiplication" choice. Popims Infinity allows you to create fantastic backgrounds and foregrounds, with any animation or even with a still image. It's extremely easy to use and produces incredible 3D effects. Advanced Interlacing This function allows producing RGB, Grayscale and CMYK interlaced images of all sizes at all printing resolutions. You also get separate files for each color plane, and Animator manages all color profiles with a very simple and efficient new method. You can also adjust the algorithm to match the power of your computer! Popims Advanced Interlacing has virtually no limit, as very heavy images are automatically divided in stripes that correspond to known limits of image files and to the memory of your PC. Popims Advanced Interlacing is available only in specific versions of Animator dedicated to licensed printing companies. Some versions also comprise a Raster Image Processor (a RIP) which is completely different from anything you know, as it creates not only the interlaced image file, but also optimized 1bit Tiff files that you can send directly to your CTP or CTF! "Optimized" means here that CMYK "subpixels" micro-components of CMYK pixels are not computed to be viewed directly by a human eye at a distance, but throuch each lens of the lenticular screen, which is acting as a microscope. For those who like technical info, interlacing is done at the same time as ripping, and our algorithm uses a random pattern screenning method with an error correction that is applied not to the neighboring dot but to a dot to be viewe through the next lens. Another aspect of our new algorithm is that pitch adjustment is done within the interlacing and ripping process, and not afterwards as usual. This leads to a serious enhancement of the final quality. These original characteristics make it possible to interlace images at your CTP or CTF resolution, e.g. at 4800 or 5400 DPI, and not at twice the lineature (which limited previously the interlacing resolution to 600 or 800 DPI only). This is the secret for printing video sequences and very deep 3D effects, as many professional have seen in our demo meetings. Lens Printing This is not available in version 4.00, but the printing industry now knows how fast the Popims team has been progressing lately on this subject: printing the lenses with clear ink, at the same time as printing the interlaced image! We have signed a very important partnership in this field with the world leader of this technology, the US company Serigraph. A new company has been created, Popims LensPrinter, to market worldwide a whole bunch of new technologies under both Serigraph and Popims patents. You can get more information about all this operation at www.lensprinter.com. New lens printing devices are under development with major US, Japanese and French printing equipment manufacturers, using Serigraph and Popims patented processes. There is no doubt that it will be a major change for the whole printing industry as LensPrinter principles are compatible with almost all existing technologies; offset, flexo, screen-printing, UV inkjet, etc.., and future professional versions or Popims Animator will of course compute not only the interlaced images, but also the lenses to be printed with clear ink on top of the image.

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