** SORRY - NO LONGER SUPPORTED **

Current version: 1.6!

Released March 24^th, 1998

• MooVer has been awarded 5 mice by MacUser's Software Central!
• MooVer was awarded "Best of Selection" by MacPool.
• MooVer has a nice little review in MacAddict magazine.
• MooVer is now localized into German/Deutsch, and Japanese/Nihongo!
• You can now easily and securely register MooVer On-Line with Kagi!
• MooVer is listed in Apple's searchable Software/Hardware guide, or you can jump straight to their MooVer page.

You can download the latest English version of MooVer right here, or here on info-mac/gst/mov/. You can also use a HyperArchive search to find it on the info-mac internet mirrors.

German/Deutsch MooVer: from here, or here on info-mac/gst/mov/.

Japanese/Nihongo MooVer: from here, or here on info-mac/gst/mov/.

MooVer is a simple utility that creates a QuickTime movie from a sequence of Macintosh Pict, PICS, Targa, or sound files dropped onto it. It is perfect for creating computer animations, slide shows, or batch-converting images or sounds into QuickTime movie format. MooVer works on 68020 or better Macintosh models, is accelerated for Power Macintosh models, requires at least System 7.0, and needs QuickTime version 1.6 or newer.

The display size of the overall movie is determined by the size of the first image dropped onto MooVer. All successive images, no matter what size they are, will be resized (scaled, not cropped) to fit the size of the first image.

MooVer can create QuickTime movies in either 256 colors (8-bit) or millions of colors (24-bit, or TrueColor.) If 256-color mode is used, then any 24-bit Pict images will first be reduced to 8 bits before their frames are added to the movie. You can optionally choose "256 colors dithered" which will generally do a better color-smoothing job than just "256 colors." This is independent of any QuickTime compression settings you choose.

MooVer supports the 4 required AppleEvents, which allows it to be automatically controlled by AppleScript in a limited way.

You can optionally "add subtitles" under each image frame. In this case, MooVer will subtitle each frame with text. It will either use the name of each Pict file, or, if there is a special "subtitle" text file in the same folder as the Pict files, MooVer will instead use each text line from this file as subtitles for each frame.

NOTE: You can view a real example QuickTime movie created with MooVer right here.

New Things in This Version (1.6)

- User can choose how different-sized images are positioned in the movie (cropping, scaling, centering.)

- Handles more sample rates and 16 bit deep sound files.

- MacOS 8 Appearance manager-compatible.

- Completed the Japanese localization of the documentation.

New Things in Version 1.5

- Targa files can be directly read and converted by MooVer.

- Alpha-transparency information is now passed from images into movie.

- Japanese-localized version is available.

- Long-standing bug fixed, where long sound files (>46 seconds) were repeating.

New Things in Version 1.41

- Allowed command-period to interrupt folder drops.

- Changed heading font in the documentation from Geneva to Helvetica, hopefully fixing some readability problems in Europe.

- Did a little more robust checking of the CPU type running, so MooVer doesn't refuse to run on certain 68K platforms.

This animation sequence was created by a Freeware ray tracing application called POV-Ray Macintosh, version 3. POV-Ray is available for the Macintosh and many other computer platforms. You can find the latest copy of this application on CompuServe (GO POVRAY), America On-line (keyword MGR or PGR), and the Internet . Also look for the book on the Macintosh version of POV-Ray, called Ray Tracing for the Macintosh CD, published by Waite Group Press, ISBN 1-878739-72-7.) The original POV-Ray scene source file that generated the frames is included with MooVer, so that you may use it with POV-Ray to render a larger or smoother movie.

MooVer is fully functional Shareware, which means all features are enabled for you to use... esp Software does not believe in "Crippleware." You may try the software a few times to see if it suits your needs. If you find it useful and continue to use it, you are asked to register it by sending a check or money order to esp Software for $10 USA. You can instead use the enclosed "Register" application from Kagi to pay by credit card/cash/check. Discounts for multi-user packs and for educational use are available, see the enclosed Read Me document for information.

Apple's QuickTime site has detailed information on adding QuickTime movies to your web page. Mac and Windows users browsing your web page will need a browser that supports QuickTime content... this is usually done with a plug-in (you can get one for Mac or Windows from Apple for free.)