CoreMelt today announced the release of their latest video editing plugin for Final Cut Pro; Lock & Load. Lock & Load has been benchmarked as the worlds fastest stabilizer for Final Cut Pro, running at 6 times the speed of Apple’s inbuilt stabilizer, Smoothcam. With plenty of features and an intuitive interface, Lock & Load makes video stabilization a breeze. Lock and load is capable of intelligently ignoring foreground motion even on busy scenes or with dark backgrounds.
Byron Bay, NSW/Australia – CoreMelt today announced the release of Lock & Load, the worlds fastest video stabilizer for Final Cut Pro. Lock and Load takes shaky footage and makes it usable. Just select the clip, analyze it 6 times faster than Smoothcam, and playback the smoothed clip. That’s it, instant gratification, even on clips with complex rotation motion or camera zooms. Lock and load is capable of intelligently ignoring foreground motion even on busy scenes or with dark backgrounds.
Lock & Load’s advanced features:
* No need to choose tracking points, Lock & Load intelligently analyzes the entire clip for you, just select the clip and go.
* With intelligent adaptive zoom, Lock & Load will automatically compensate for differing levels of movement and zoom in to remove edges.
* Removes or smooths rotation and zoom changes as well as X and Y movement.
* Analyses only the portion of the clip you select, no need to export and re-import long clips.
* Works with all kinds of footage, no “too much movement” errors.
* Gives smoother and more fluid results on all types of footage from landscapes to city scenes.
* Intelligently ignores foreground motion.
* Multithreaded motion analysis uses all processors on your system.
* Realtime preview of the smoothed clip without rendering.
* No learning curve, instant intuitive user interface, works directly on the FCP timeline.
Product Comparisons:
Speed compared to Smoothcam*:
Lock & Load: 6x
Apple Smoothcam: 1x
Magic Bullet Steady: 1x
Boris Optical Stabilize: 3x
Smoothes Rotation and Zoom:
Lock & Load: Yes
Apple Smoothcam: Yes
Magic Bullet Steady: No
Boris Optical Stabilize: Yes
Fast Preview/Render:
Lock & Load: Yes
Apple Smoothcam: No
Magic Bullet Steady: Yes
Boris Optical Stabilize: No
Analyses in/out only:
Lock & Load: Yes
Apple Smoothcam: No
Magic Bullet Steady: Yes
Boris Optical Stabilize: No
Smart Adaptive Zoom:
Lock & Load: Yes
Apple Smoothcam: No
Magic Bullet Steady: No
Boris Optical Stabilize: No
Fully Keyframable:
Lock & Load: Yes
Apple Smoothcam: No
Magic Bullet Steady: No
Boris Optical Stabilize: No
Price:
Lock & Load: Normally $149
Apple Smoothcam: NA
Magic Bullet Steady: $199
Boris Optical Stabilize: $99
Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard or higher
* Final Cut Pro 6 or later.
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* G5 Processor, 1GHz or faster
* Dedicated 128MB or higher Graphics memory required (256MB required for HD rendering)
* 100 MB Hard Drive space for CoreMelt Complete
Pricing and Availability:
Lock & Load normally retails for $149 (USD). Until 8 September the Special Introductory price is $129. If you already own CoreMelt Complete V2, you can buy Lock & Load for only $99!
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CoreMelt are designers of cutting edge, GPU accelerated plugins for Motion Graphics Artists and Video Editors using Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Apple Motion, and After Effects CS3/CS4. With over 15 years of combined industry experience, we know what effects artists need and want. Copyright 2009 CoreMelt. All Rights Reserved. Apple Final Cut Studio and Apple Motion, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.