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Subject: VideoWorks
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 07:35:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 07:35:42 1985
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From: roy@nlm-vax (Roy Standing)

Since I posted a message about finding several DAs on a disk named
VideoWorks 0.15 I have received mail asking "What is VideoWorks".
Given the amount of mail, I will respond here:

To be honest, I don't know yet myself.  I have no documentation and
was looking at a pre-release demonstration disk.  My impression is:

 1) Like Ann Arbor's Animation Toolkit, VideoWorks permits on screen
    animation.
 2) Unlike Animation Toolkit, it allows simultaneous animation of a
    "cast" of eight images (the demo appears to have 4 separate
    images of which all but one are static and just move across the
    screen while one cycles through approximately 4 'forms' as it moves
    across the screen.)

It has the following windows:

 1) Stage -- The Mac screen, on which the "play" is performed
 2) Panel -- Start/Stop/Direction/Scene Counter/Cut/Splice
 3) Score -- The "play" score
 4) Cast  -- There is room for 8 entries, each entry can have 8 'forms'
 5) CheapPaint -- A MacPaint-like window for creating "cast" 'forms'

The demo, Tour deFrance, was very interesting.  It had a cyclist moving
along the road passing foliage on one side and being passed by a car on
the other side.

The disk had the following 'about VideoWorks':

VideoWorks 0.15 *EXPERIMENTAL*
by Jay Fenton, Marc A. Canter, & Mark S. Pierce
(C) Copyright 1985 MacroMind, Inc. All Rights Reserved

I know I've seen the name MacroMind somewhere before but I can't find
a reference (or telephone number).