RE: [CinePaint] Hew to CinePaint, what file type?

[Louis B. <lou...@ho...>]

You may want to check jahshaka at http://www.jahshaka.com/
It is currently in beta but I have been using it a number of times with 
certain success.


>From: Dave Groover <lev...@mi...>
>Reply-To: cin...@li...
>To: cin...@li...
>Subject: RE: [CinePaint] Hew to CinePaint, what file type?
>Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:21:58 -0400
>
>At 3:05 AM +0000 8/23/04, Louis Byrne wrote:
>>First of all, cinepaint is neither a video editor nor a compositor, it is 
>>a graphic software which allows you to edit a number of different graphic 
>>formats such as jpeg, png, gif or even Kodak cineon. If you are looking at 
>>just brightening or enhancing your videos, I would suggest the excellent 
>>virtualdub
>>http://www.virtualdub.org/index
>>This software will have more than enough to knock your socks off. Among 
>>its features is removing the noise from videos coming from video capture 
>>cards as well as a number of handy dandy plugins.
>>Cinepaint is used in the film industry to retouch "frame by frame" stills 
>>and 35mm films. More likely to fix old movies. Its key feature is being 
>>able to save in 16bit and 32bit per channel, that is Red, Green and Blue 
>>and also Alpha Transparency as opposed to just 8bits most commonly used by 
>>all graphic software.
>>Hope that I could answer all your questions and good look.
>
>OK thanks, I didn't understand about CinePaint. I was certainly confused 
>with all the blurbs about it being used in high end Cinema shops. It 
>certainly looked like a photo editor and not a video machine. Thanks for 
>clearing that up for me.
>
>The product you referred me too, VirtualDub, is for the Windows platform, I 
>assume, only, the Windows platform? I am on Apple OS X (10.3). Any 
>suggestions about what would work on the Mac side?
>
>The VirtualDub site refers to a GNU General Public License (GPL). I 
>thought, or hoped, that this  means I could run it as a UNIX app and that 
>someone might have already ported it to an X11 type interface, for a Mac 
>person. IT is only WIndows, isn't it? (He says hoping, throwing caution to 
>the wind...)
>
>Dave Groover

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