robotfunk/flowmotion 2.5/features

features

visual sources
Flowmotion supports the following video formats:
AVI (all codecs), Quicktime (all codecs), MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG 4
Flowmotion supports the following image file formats:
JPEG, GIF, BMP, PCX, PICT, PSD (Photoshop), PNG, TIFF
Flowmotion supports live video capture sources such as
DV cameras, analog cameras, webcams, capture cards, etc. (2 seperate capture sources are supported).
Flowmotion supports interactive Flash and Director movies as sources. They can react to the mouse, but also to variables in Flowmotion such as LFO's, time, FFT data etc. This allows you to easily make new plugins for Flowmotion.
MIDI
Flowmotion is MIDI controllable
Every parameter in Flowmotion can be controlled by MIDI.
You can trigger clips from a MIDI keyboard.
You can synchronize Flowmotion to MIDI Clock devices such as Sequencers, Drum Machines, Grooveboxes, BPM Extractors.
audioresponsive
Flowmotion features a 9-octave FFT audio analyzer. You can use this to make Flowmotion react to incoming audio levels at different frequency bands.
Channels
Flowmotion has 5 channels, each can contain any controller, and be blended with other channels using Blend, Mask layers, Gradient Wipes, or any transfer mode you know from Adobe Photoshop.
Each layer has a large number of direction and time controls, allowing easy syncing of loops to the beat of the music, scratching video clips, etc. Each channel can be colorized with the infinite color palettes, and can use up to 2 of the more than 100 available realtime video effects.
Controllers
The heart of every channel is the controller. Controllers include a clip loop module, a rhythmic cutup module, a sequencer that can alternate up to 16 clips or other sources, a MIDImap that can trigger clips from a MIDI keyboard, a Link controller that reprocesses the output of the previous channel, and many more.
Effects
Flowmotion has a large choice of over 100 realtime video effects, including support for FreeFrame plugins.
Every effect can have up to 12 controllable parameters, each can be MIDI controlled, linked to any other parameter value such as LFOs, FFT frequencies, time, or operated by mouse. Parameter changes can be recorded, played back and saved.
LFOs
Flowmotion has 2 LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators) that can be synced to master tempo (and to MIDI Clock) or run independantly.
Fullscreen output
Flowmotion can output the composition to the second screen (video out) in fullscreen mode
Scratch pad
Every channel has a pad you can use to scratch video clips. This scratch pad can be controlled by MIDI or linked to any fader, LFO, FFT Frequency, or time value
Mask layers
Every channel has a mask layer. You can use any source, including moving clips or even camera input as your mask layer
Customizable gradient wipes
Easily design your own wipe patterns in Photoshop
preloading video clips for fast playback
You can choose to preload clips into memory for lightning fast playback and effects. You can decide how much frames to use for preloading each clip. If you wish you can also stream clips from disk (without preloading).
Easy syncing of clips to the music
Simply tap the space bar to the beat of the music to make the internal timer sync to the tempo of the music. Alternatively use MIDI Clock for automatic tight synchronization.

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