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An MPEG clip demonstrates how FX-supplied effects can be user-customized in unique ways. The EFX digital editing and effects environment integrates facilities for nonlinear editing of digitized fild, video, and audio with sophisticated image-manipulating special effects. EFX offers an intuitive, visual, direct-manipulation user interface for building multimedia compositions. This front end, discussed here, is coupled with a powerful parallel-processing computer that computes the special effects and plays back the uncompressed digitized film or video in real time.
Contact: Sherman R. Alpert, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM, 30 Saw Mill River Rd., Hawthorne, NY 10532, (914) 784-7279, e-mail alpert@watson.ibm.com.