melies-announcement — Announcements

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:: melies fx
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  The Melies project has now officialy gone public. I slao want to
  welcome new developer Mikael Sundell to the project.


What's melies fx ?
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  melies fx is a 2D compositing system for film and video work where
  the main objective is rendering speed and flexible design not
  features.

  In melies fx the compositing process is edited as a directed acylic
  graph where nodes represent image operations and connecting edges
  depict flow of image information. melies fx can either be run in
  GUI mode for interactive editing of the graph and previewing of
  comps or in command-line batch mode.

  The graphs interactivly edited in the user interface is saved as
  human readable script files. And the renderer features full support
  for expression and control structures in scriptfiles.

  melies fx take advantage of the OpenEXR "half" pixel format
  (compatible with NVIDIA Cg's 16-bit float per channel) for image
  manipulation and display.

  melies fx is written in C++ with use of STL, RTTI and contract
  programming. melies fx also feature total GUI separation via a
  plugin mechanism.


Features
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  Operating Systems
    * Run on GNU/Linux and MacOS X

  Architecture
    * Scanline based image computation
    * 16-bit float per channel
    * Unlimited number of channels
    * Resolution independent with infinite workspace
    * Completely plugin based

  Workflow
    * Configurable user interface
    * Node based
    * Generate human readable scripts
    * Automatic proxy creation
    * Built in flipbook
    * Sound support
    * Distributed rendering

  Image I/O
    * Read and writes multiple file formats
    * Use OpenEXR as native image format

  Video I/O
    * QuickTime support on both MacOS X and GNU/Linux
    * AAF support for interchange between applications
    * Support FinalCut Pro XML-based exchange format
    * Support for broadcast monitor via IEEE1394


Contact
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  For further information, please visit melies fx home page:

     http://melies.sourceforge.net