Real-Time Video Editing Previews
FMV's video editor is DirectX based - This means it will automatically take advantage of any hardware it finds on your graphics card to speed up rendering and previewing of video. This allows FMV to preview transitions, effects and titles in real-time even on high definition (HD) projects. If you don't have the latest graphics card, just turn down the preview size and when you are happy with the movie, then render the video in HD.

video editing in Real Time with DirectX

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FMV Screenshots
The following are some of the main screens in FMV. This will show you how to access some of the screens and demonstrate their function.
 
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Get Creative with Video
As all FMV's video effects and transitions are real-time, lining up effects and transitions are easy. You actually see what you will get, not a pictorial representation. FMV's editor is a very creative environment due to the speed with which you can try ideas out. FMV also shields the user from being 'over-technical' whilst still delivering flexibility. This allows you to be more creative and adventurous with your edits.

For a low level look at the video technology which delivers this creativity, Click Here

For info on MS-Graphedit output and XML Render scripts, Click Here

 

A few FMV features to create with :-
 

Transitions

• Over 300 customisable 2D & 3D SMPTE transitions with masking
• Customisable Particle based transitions (Whirlwind, Shatter etc)
• Import of custom Moviemaker XML transitions
• User imported graphics for video transition masks
 

Effects

• Over 100 customisable video effects each with configurable parameters
• Layering of multiple effects with keyframing for each video effect
• Keyframing for every parameter for each video effect
• Color, contrast, brightness and threshold adjustment (with dib from frame)
• Reverse video
 

Transform

• Fully Customisable ease in and out on any video or still
• Customisable Camera rotation around x-axis
• Spin speed and zoom in\out speed configurable
• Configurable Zoom range
 

Images

• Bulk import of stills with each still having unique parameters
• Copy any still (inc HD video) from a clip to windows clipboard or save to file
• Paste any still (inc HD video ) from windows clipboard into project. Photoshop - copy \ paste
• Movie to still sequence and still sequence to video feature
• Choice of aspect ratio \ croping \ letterboxing of images
• Still Morph to video feature
 

Transport

• Mousewheel frame advance \ rewind with resolution configurable
• Mousewheel 'inertia' feature - flick mousewheel to stop\start playback (or use space bar)
• Quick scrubber facillity
• Contour Shuttle Pro support 
• Audio positioning resolution to 1/1000secs
• Video positioning resolution to 1 frame
 

Titler

• Fully animated titler with user imported graphics
• Real-time Titler preview
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Audio

• Rip audio from any video clip to WAV or MP3
• Rip audio from any section of video clip to WAV or MP3 (Ringtone creator) 
• Individual output level on each video cut
• Autotrim audio track with fade to movie duration
• ID3 editor for MP3's 
• Global Gracenote CDDB CD identification support for audio CD's with localisation. 
 

Edit

• Resolution independent - Mix frame sizes, frame rates and source formats in any project
• Editing of any video format supported by DirectX \ DirectShow
• Equi-Chunk feature (if previous cut was 5 frames long, equi-chunk will create a new cut 5 frames long from the end of the last cut)
• Frame level video \ audio clip trimmer with mousewheel or click control
• No trans coding of source video clips when loaded into the project - Instant preview
• Time stretching of both video and audio
• Import pictures in BMP, GIF and JPG format
• Autoscene feature
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Misc

• Full GraphEdit output for all renders
• XML output for each render
• Editable project files (Source paths can be changed easily)
• Auto creation of HTML to embed movie in webpage
• Video Zoom \ inspector with Zoom to 1500%
• Skinnable front interface
• CPU performance configurator
• Auto recovery of project on failure
• XPMode and Virtual Machine support under Vista and Windows 7
• Fully multi-threaded to take advantage of multi-core CPU's
 
 
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The Video Player - A True HD Experience
A true HD video Experience with hardware assisted playback ensuring the motion is always smooth and flicker free. FMV offloads video processing tasks to the GPU on your video card to deliver optimal quality. FMV does this automatically without any user intervention to ensure the highest quality video playback is always delivered. For the tech info on how FMV uses this hardware assistance:-
Full 1080p video Output
Player Features include :-
 
Variable Speed - 0.1x to 5x rate
Mousewheel frame advance and rewind
Zoom Video to 1500% (with Pan Control)
Quick Access 'Right-Click' for quick control
Extract video Frame to Windows backdrop (Inc HD)
Wide Range of Audio format support (Inc Gracenote  CDDB submission)
Still Slideshow with mouse control
Realtime Audio Visualisations
Rip Audio from Video to MP3 or WAV
Create screensaver from collection
User Skinnable Interface
 
    

Multiple Output Profiles

FMV will output video with a range of predefined target profiles such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Xbox360. There are also several predefined high-definition video profiles such as 1080p and 720p. You can however define your own video profile with differing frame rates and aspect ratios. 
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xbox video tools  Twitter video tools  YouTube video tools   Facebook video tools  wmvhd output image
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Easy to use
FMV is a cut-based video editor and does not have a timeline. You apply effects, transitions and titles to each cut and not to the timeline as a whole. This often makes it easier to deal with complex cuts as each change to the video is dealt with separately in the interface and you do not need to deciper symbols on a timeline. To preview your source 'cut' just click it in the cut list. To preview your new video with transitions and effects, just click the 'Preview' button on the main screen. You can also scrub through the preview with the slider below.
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