What is Take ONE?
Take ONE is the ideal application if you want to do anything of the following:
- Edit Bitmap Images and Image Sequences with a variety
of powerful tools like onion skinning or simultaneous editing of multiple
frames
- Create Interactive Animations to be used as presentations,
cartoons, program starters, etc.
- Create Screensavers that can be installed in the Windows dektop.
- Extract Images from AVI-files or create your own AVIs
of any size from existing images.
- Create Animated GIFs (as seen on this page)
- Create Animated Cursors (.ANI files) for Windows 95 or Window
NT
New Features in Version 4.0
Take ONE 4 is now a full 32-Bit
application that is optimized for Windows 98, ME and 2000. Take ONE 4 will
still work with Windows 95 but an upgrade to Windows 95 SE is strongly
recommended.
- Support of high- and true color images and frame sequences.
- Import and export of JPEG images.
- Improved user interface
- Improved frame editor and text tool.
- Stretched to size frames on the film reel.
- Improved color replacement with optional preservation of color
gradation.
- Improved path animation and improved dialog for defining foreground
regions.
- Improved support for animated GIF.
- New ANX file format for Take ONE animations, which combines all
animation, image and sound files required for an animation in a single
compressed file.
- Internet plugins for Internet-Explorer und Netscape to use Take ONE
animations on Internet pages.
The Editor
The Take ONE image editor was especially designed for creating and editing
frame sequences that e.g. show a thing or an animal in motion. A frame
sequence consists of a number of (up to 256) frames of the same size and
color depth that have only little changes between them which can be put
into motion when played quickly one after another.
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Take ONE supports a variety of image file formats for both import
and export such as:
- Windows Bitmap (.BMP, .DIB, .RLE)
- Video for Windows (.AVI)
- Z-Soft Paintbrush Bitmap (.PCX)
- CompuServe Graphic-Interchange-Format (.GIF)
- JPEG (.JPG)
- Tagged Image File Format (.TIF)
- Resource Bitmaps (Images stored in .EXE, .DLL and .SCR Files),
import only!
- Icons and Cursors (.ICO,.CUR, .ANI)
- Take ONE Frame Sequences (.BMX)
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The Animation Module
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Take ONE lets you create animations with up to 30 animated objects
per animation which can all move simultaneously and independently.
It is possible to let an object interact with the user i.e.
react on mouse or keyboard input, and to play WAV or MIDI sound
with the animation.
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There are three different ways of defining the animation
behaviour of an object:
- The Sequence Animation is the easiest to define and suitable
for simple objects.
- The Path Definition is particularly useful for objects
with a complex movement
- The Cycle Definition is the most powerful type which
also lets you add interactivety to your animation.
Take ONE Animations run either in a window or can be installed
as a screensaver (.SCR-file). For windowed playback Take ONE povides
a runtime module that allows you to distribute your animatons royalty
free. Take ONE also supports animated GIF (.GIF-files) and animated
cursors (.ANI-files) files . Use the powerful Take ONE Bitmap editor to create
or assemble your animation sequence an the special animation dialogs
that allow you to define and preview your animation. |
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