### MainActor

MainActor, an animation composing and editing package is available for Windows95/NT4.0 and OS/2 Warp. It has been entirely written using VisualAge C++ and OpenClass. MainActor is able to load, edit, play, and compose/convert all major animation formats and the most common picture and sound formats. A complete list of all formats as of version 1.1: AVI, BMP, DL, FLC, FLI, GIF, AnimGIF, IFF, IFF-Anim3/5/7/8/J, JPEG, MPEG-I/II, MPEG-Audio Layer I/II/III, PCX, TGA, QuickTime and WAV.

MainActor is able to join individual pictures into animations, process animations, convert animations and pictures, process time codes of animations, split animations into pictures, and much more. All this can be done in a completely format independent manner, basically you can load, edit, and play any of the supported formats and convert them into any other format. This way you can for example convert MPEG to GIFAnim, AVI to QuickTime, or FLC to MPEG. The Windows version features sophisticated video capturing support.

#### Modular Design

Due to its modular design, new load / save modules can be added to MainActor without updating the main program. A Developer's Kit is available, which allows interested parties to write any kind of module for MainActor. A Visual Builder part for managing the various modules is considered and will be created if there is any interest in this kind of functionality. A viewer application, MainView, is also part of the MainActor package. A complete sequencer add-on for MainActor, including sophisticated Video and Audio effects, is in preparation.

MainActor costs $60 and the Windows version is currently bundled with every Elsa Victory Erazor 3D and Elsa Winner/2000 gfx card.

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