Magpie Pro is a professional lip-sync and animation timing utility.
With it animators can create very accurate 2D, 3D and Stop Motion facial animation that can then be easily incorporated into most animation packages in the market and also printed as a traditional animation exposure sheet to be used as a reference.
· Many media formats supported: mp3, wav, aiff, mov, avi, psd, jpg, lwo, 3ds, etc.
· Multiple actors per project
· Pose sliders
· Advanced audio playback and scrubbing
· Real time preview
· Automatic speech recognition
· Reference video
· Animation curve editor
· Animation export
· Customizable user interface
· Extensible with scripting
Requirements:
· Pentium or compatible computer
· Audio output
· 128 MB of RAM
· 32 MB graphics card with OpenGL acceleration
· QuickTime
Limitations:
· 30-day trial
· The Render command only outputs the first 16 frames of the project.
· The Export options only export the first 16 frames of the project.
· The Print command only prints the first 16 frames of the project.
· The Insert and Delete Frames commands are disabled.
· Projects can be saved only in binary format (an XML based ASCII format is also available in the fully enabled version)
What's New in This Release:
· Bug fixed: certain jpeg or png image files did not load into the software.
· Bug fixed: on Windows, sometimes the render option showed the error "cannot create output file".