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

Volume

3

Issue

1

fYear

1996

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

29

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/93.486701

Filename

486701