Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Announces New Features Available in AVS/Express; AVS/Express 4.2 Includes Advanced Animation Capabilities.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999--Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside ), the premiere global provider of data visualization technology, today announced AVS/Express(R) Release 4.2 is shipping with a robust feature set expanded to include the Geometry Flipbook flip·book n. A small book consisting of a series of images that give the illusion of continuous movement when the edges of the pages are flipped quickly. animation capabilities and new visualization techniques. The AVS/Express animator drastically reduces time needed to create animations. Additional operating system and platform support is also provided in response to direct feedback from the AVS/Express installed customer base, including support for the n32 Application Binary Interface See ABI. (programming) Application Binary Interface - (ABI) The interface by which an application program gains access to operating system and other services. It should be possible to run the same compiled binary applications on any system with the right ABI. on the Silicon Graphics, Inc. IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. (tm) platform and the Microsoft(R) Visual C++(R) 6.0 development system. "Keeping with our leadership position, we are quite pleased with the new features in AVS/Express Release 4.2 and believe our customers will be as well," said Melanie Ziegler, Vice President of Product Development for Advanced Visual Systems Inc. "We have always provided the leading edge ability to create animations using AVS/Express; however, with this latest release, animations can be built in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
Recent versions of AVS/Express included key frame animation which enabled users to select key frames, attributes for each frame, and the interpolation interpolation In mathematics, estimation of a value between two known data points. A simple example is calculating the mean (see mean, median, and mode) of two population counts made 10 years apart to estimate the population in the fifth year. methods to be used between each key frame. AVS/Express then generated the animation and played it back. Further enhanced versions of AVS/Express included the "Image Flipbook," which allowed animation results to be captured as a movie in either AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. or MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). format. AVS/Express now allows the results of the animation capture as a series of geometry frames which can be played back. With Geometry Flipbook, users can fully interact with the visualization during playback. In addition to providing leading edge visualization tools, AVS has a team of expert visualization consultants. The Advanced Visual Systems Professional Services organization helps global organizations turn data into visual insight through the deployment of robust, extensible visualization solutions. A full range of visualization services is offered: from requirements definition through application deployment, from knowledge transfer through application upgrade. About Advanced Visual Systems Advanced Visual Systems Inc. is the premiere global provider of data visualization technology and has been at the forefront of the visualization technology market since its 3D visualization tools were developed. Advanced Visual Systems Inc. was incorporated as an independent, privately held software company in 1992. AVS distributes its products in more than 25 countries around the world. For more information, visit the AVS web site at www.avs.com. AVS/Express is a registered trademark of Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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