Title :
The EFX editing and effects environment
Author :
Alpert, Sherman R. ; Laff, Mark R. ; Koons, W. Randall ; Epstein, David A. ; Soroker, Danny ; Morrill, David C. ; Stein, Arthur J.
Author_Institution :
Educ. Solutions Group, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
The EFX digital editing and effects environment integrates facilities for nonlinear editing of digitized film, 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 in the paper, 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
Keywords :
computer graphics; graphical user interfaces; image processing; multimedia computing; parallel processing; real-time systems; EFX; audio; digitized film; editing; effects environment; front end; image-manipulation; nonlinear editing; parallel processing; real time; special effects; video; visual direct-manipulation user interface; Application software; Concurrent computing; File servers; Motion pictures; Network servers; Refining; TV; User interfaces; Visual effects; Workstations;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
