Ventuz 2008 Express
Ventuz 2008 Express lets you create state of the art 3D presentations.
This product will install two programs on your PC: the Designer, which is the creation- and authoring-tool, and the Presenter, which serves as a playback-tool for Ventuz projects.
Ventuz 2008 Express has full functionality, no time limitation and can be used professionally as well as for private purposes.
What makes it different?
Ventuz is a professional tool for high-end 3D multimedia presentations.
It is the perfect solution for presentations given in a business or event surrounding, where every aspect, from location over decoration to catering, has been arranged by specialists. In a setting like this, you need a presentation that can impress your audience beyond their expectations.
At the same time your presentation needs to be flexible enough to be adapted to changes up to the last minute before the event.
Ventuz is the perfect combination of these two aspects: impressive 3D looks and a real-time environment.
Why upgrade to Professional?
If you want a little extra power you definitely need Ventuz Professional.
1. Display your presentation over more than one output channel and free of any resolution restrictions.
2. Use scripting-nodes to create custom functions and extend the possibilities of Ventuz.
3. Connect Ventuz to a database to spread changes to the content to many workstations all over the world.
4. Use OSC and DMX to control external devices such as light and special stage effects.
5. Use the implemented screen-shaping and soft-edging tools to make your projections smoother.
Explore some feature hightlights
Interactivity and Touch
Ventuz not only provides you with custom high-end presentations, it also gives you the possibility to navigate through them interactively. Common uses are light barrier technology for talks in front of large audiences, touch screen applications for exhibitions and motion tracking for Hollywood-like navigations. Interactivity is the latest in computer technology and guarantees that you will stun and amaze your audience.
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Video Implementation
Since release number R5.15 Ventuz contains two new nodes – the Quicktime Movie node and the Quicktime Animation node. The Quicktime Movie node provides frame-accurate playback of Quicktime movies as well as other MPEG4 und H.264 encoded clips. The Quicktime Animation node is designed to playback image-sequences - frame accurately, forward and backward including Alpha. Quicktime Animations are not loaded into RAM and therefore perfect for large pre-rendered graphics sequences.
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Real-time
A Ventuz scene is rendered 60 times a second, this means that changes concerning the content, design or data from external files, applications and controlling systems will take effect immediately. Thus, Ventuz is a state-of-the-art WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) system; you see the final rendered scene, while building it up. Surprise your customers with last-minute content changes, live movies embedded in your 3d world, or interactive parameter changes through various input and output nodes. Become acquainted with a new workflow of 3d rendering.
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Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy describes the creation of the illusion of depth in an image by presenting two slightly different versions of the particular image for each eye. Ventuz as a real-time tool for 3D-content is by nature capable of creating stereoscopic projects. With Ventz, this new technology is easily accessible and the creation of S3D-presentations doesn't require more time or money.
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3D Import
Ventuz supports the import of several 3D formats such as COLLADA, 3DS, OBJ, RTG and X. Besides the possibility of importing geometry data, materials and textures you can also import camera data and animation via COLLADA. Collada can be exported from nearly all DCC tools. This gives you the possibility of designing complex models in your favored DCC tools and rendering them in real-time in Ventuz. The hierarchical structure of your model can be maintained in Ventuz to create complex animations. It is also possible to reduce complexity during the import to improve rendering performance.
Font Engine
One of our major focuses has been on the completely revised and extended Font Engine that gives you unlimited possibilities in creating appealing text styles. Benefit from having full control over mesh font creation like beveling mesh fonts to lend your texts more attractiveness. Different bevel styles can be applied to any font. Four different resolutions for mesh and texture fonts will fit all your demands in SD and HD resolutions.
Animation
The Ventuz Designer offers various possibilities in creating dynamic motions. Motion manipulators, such as the oscillator or motion damping, help add physical accuracy to your animation. Beside conventional linear animation editing mode, Ventuz provides a comprehensive non-linear state-based animation model (state engine) to very easily create complex non-linear animations. Even embedded animation controls, within another animation such as cascading animations, can be provided. Since embedded animations work like any other key frame animation, they can be combined with regular key frame animations.
External Data
Ventuz comes with a Midi component that allows the use of not only musically based devices like master keyboards and midi controllers, but also the entire range of analogue to MIDI sensors, like heat, or distance sensors. Another important feature is the FFT component, which analyses your audio input, divided in 15 wave bands. In this way impressive VJ visuals can be realized with ease. The RSS Feed component allows sourcing RSS feeds directly from the www and displaying them in your three dimensional world. Due to Microsoft’s .NET technology it is extremely simple to realize a data exchange between Ventuz and Excel or to receive data from XML or .txt files.
Project Management
The Ventuz Designer is especially optimized for working in large user groups. A comprehensive project management system provides perfect assessment of all projects, their settings and hardware profiles. All members of the team have full access to the project repositories. Objects, trees and even whole scenes can be collected and shared over LAN. They can be used by every team member, simply by drag and drop.
Text Effects
Ventuz allows you to use various text effects like circle, alpha, spark and shrink to fit effects. Combine multiple Text Effects by linking the output of one Text Effect to the input of another Text Effect. Text Effects can be applied to both types of text rendered in Ventuz (Texture and Mesh Text).
Graphic User Interface
Ventuz provides a completely customizable user interface, which allows an efficiently and fast way to work. Even though the possibilities of the software seem to be infinite, the Ventuz GUI is very intuitive and easy to learn. The layout is not fixed. The GUI with all its windows can be changed according to the workflow. Every window can be scaled, repositioned, undocked and moved to a second monitor. In respect to our customer’s wish list we developed the possibility of choosing from different colour schemes for a better handling.
System requirements
Hardware
CPU:Intel or AMD processor with ≥ 2 GHz (Dualcore / Quadcore CPU ≥ 2 GHz recommended)
Memory: 1GB (2GB for 32bit or 4GB for 64bit recommended)
Harddisk: 500GB or above with 7.200 rpm (for video playback harddisk with ≥ 10.000 rpm or RAID 0 for enthusiast performance recommended)
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 6 and Mobile, AMD/ATI Radeon 9000 and Mobile
(recommended: Nvidia GeForce 8 Series and above, for best performance use the actual best Gamer/Consumer Graphics Card or NVidia Quadro Cards with Sync for Broadcast)
Software
Operating System: Windows XP SP3 or Windows Vista SP1
Microsoft DirectX: 9.0c
.NET Framework 1.1 (Ventuz 2006)
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Ventuz 2008)
Windows Media Player 9 and Apple Quicktime 7.3 (optional for video playback)