Impel          business/graphics/animation
Moving Pictures on the IBM PC
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
With Impel, you can make your animated business presentations,
product demonstrations, and other applications move on the IBM
PC using intuitive pick and place graphics positioning, Eastridge
reports. You can use PCX, LBM, CUT, and Impel images, and using a
mouse, move the graphic; Impel remembers the sequence of
positions, and after you've recorded several frames, you can play
back the film.
 
You can step a film forward or backward for editing and insert
or delete frames. Sections of film can be repositioned, moved,
merged, or deleted.
 
The program provides its own drawing facilities and text fonts.
All objects are stored in a single library file, including the
film itself. Impel can handle film editing and splicing,
simultaneous moving of different pictures, and wipe/dissolve
special effects. A film compiler can increase the speed of your
finished films.
 
Impel works on the IBM PC with 640K bytes of RAM, DOS 2.0 or
higher (but Eastridge recommends DOS 3.0 or higher), CGA, EGA,
VGA, or MCGA graphics cards, and a Microsoft or IBM PS/2 mouse.
 
Price: $295.
 
Contact: Eastridge Technology, 37 Murray St., New York,
NY 10007, (212) 267-7980.
 
                              --- David L. Andrews
 
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