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From: Ben Bird <ben@bensoftware.com>
Subject: BTV Pro 4.0

BTV Pro
Version 5.4
March 4, 2002

Author: Ben Bird
Email: benbird@kagi.com
Web site: www.bensoftware.com
Online order page: http://order.kagi.com/?UXT

Description

BTV Pro is an application for the Macintosh that allows you to view, 
capture and edit video, create stop-motion animations, and also has 
advanced capture features such as time lapse and motion detection. It 
works with any Macintosh compatible video input source such as video 
input cards, TV cards, built-in video, USB, DV, and FireWire video 
sources.

Main features

- Works with any Macintosh compatible video input source
- View video in a window or full-screen
- Play back movies in a window or full-screen
- Capture video to disk as a standard QuickTime movie using custom 
compression settings
- Capture frames of video to disk in many different file formats (PICT, 
JPEG, TIFF and more)
- Advanced video capture features
- Powerful time lapse capture feature
- Motion detection capture feature
- Stop motion animation features
- Onion skin feature for helping with stop motion animation
- Frame averaging feature to eliminate noise in still image captures
- DV video input/output and DV device control
- Edit movies using simple copy-and-paste and click-and-drag commands
- Floating Frame Position window that shows time code and frame count
- Export movies with custom compression and frame rate settings, and 
filters
- Channel changing on ixTV and TurboTV tuner cards
- AppleScript support
- Folder Viewer feature to view all the image files in a folder
- Includes the macgix LiveCam AppleScript to turn BTV Pro into a Webcam 
application

Minimum System requirements

PowerMac with video input hardware running system 8 and QuickTime 3.0 
(QuickTime 5 recommended, especially for use with USB video input