FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT 2000

RESEARCH PROJECT 2000 - 2001B.A . MULTIMEDIA - RMIT

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IMAGINARY SPACE TRAVEL -AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

++WHY DESIGN AND WRITE OUR OWN SOFTWARE TO DO THIS ? ++

Quicktime and Activemovie and all other media playing software utilities available today are designed for streaming video, they act like TV stations - Digital TV. Premiere, After FX and all the other composition software are designed to give one final output and to stream it to the masses.

With the exception of experimental real-time virtual reality synthesis systems (a totally different, but somewhat similar area to real-time video composition) there is no scope yet, in so called "Multimedia" Operating Systems or in multimedia production software for individual pixel manipulation in real-time. This is most likely to be because no strong market exists for it at the moment, and the media giants that rule the world of TV and radio are probably not familiar with the concept of playing with your pixels to create unique content.

Director lets you manipulate video to a certain extent using Quicktime, but here too, you are limited by what Quicktime will let you do.

The reason for designing such software is to allow the compositor full control over all aspects of the video composition at once and in real-time. Giving the compositor a freedom similar to playing a musical instrument.

The software's main features are the ability to build your own virtual video edit suite, and assign any type of controller to any unit within it. This gives us the opportunity to build a custom interface to any type of video composition arrangement we could need.