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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Troi Automatisering releases Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 for FileMaker Pro 5.5 New Plug-in lets you record pictures and movies directly with FileMaker Pro databases. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, April 18th, 2002--Troi Automatisering today announced the release of Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5, for FileMaker Pro 4.0 through 5.5. What is Troi Grabber Plug-in? Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 is a very powerful tool for grabbing pictures from a video input source and putting them directly into a FileMaker container field. All from within FileMaker you can: - preview the image stream from the video input source - crop pictures to grab only the desired part of the video image (Mac OS and Mac OS X only) - rotate pictures before grabbing (Mac OS and Mac OS X only) - grab pictures from a video input source and put them into your FileMaker database - record a movie from a video input source for a specified number of seconds or until the mouse is clicked and save the movie to a specified file on the hard disk (Mac OS and Mac OS X only) - get timecodes of a recorded movie; you can get the timecode of the beginning of the movie, of the end of the movie, the timecode at the current point in the movie or the duration of the movie in timecode (Mac OS and Mac OS X only) Peter Baanen, company president, states: "This final release can also retrieve the duration of a movie (in timecode format), even if there is no timecode track. If you work with movies or video sources, you have a lot of new possibilities to integrate this seamlessly with your FileMaker Pro database!" New Features Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 adds these new functions and features: - tested with FileMaker 5.5 and ported to Mac OS X; the Mac version of the plug-in is now a so called 'Super Fat' plug-in that will run on Mac OS 8, 9 and Mac OS X - record a movie from a video input source and save it on the hard disk (Mac OS and Mac OS X only) get timecodes of a recorded movie (Mac OS and Mac OS X only) - improved and new example files In the download we even included an example file showing how to insert a movie into a container field, in cooperation with the Troi File Plug-in. You can find more information on the Troi File Plug-in here: <http://www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html>. The possibilities are virtually limitless when using the Troi Grabber Plug-in. We invite you to test drive the new functions and see what you can do with it! Suggested Uses - a webcam database - time lapse pictures - easy casting - festival-, meeting- or conference registration database with pictures - security database - medical database with pictures of the patients' condition - capture a movie and administer the scenes and timecodes Pricing & Availability A fully functional version of Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 is available for downloading at Troi's web site at: <http://www.troi.com/software/grabberplugin.html>. Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 is available for Mac OS 8.1-9.2 and for Mac OS X and costs $79 per user. At this point there is no new Windows version, but version 1.2 is still available for Windows95/98/Me and NT/2000/XP. Details on developer licenses and multi-user discounts can be found on our web site. You can order licenses from our web site. XML formatted information All information for this plug-in formatted in XML can be found here: <http://www.troi.com/info/xsd/grabberplugin.xml>. If you list our software you can use this XML data to automatically update information of this product. For more information on this and XSD (Extendable Software Description Language) look here: <http://www.troi.com/info/xsd/>. About Troi Automatisering Troi Automatisering is leading developer of cross platform FileMaker Pro plug-ins and winner of the FileMaker Pro Excellence Award 2001. For more information, visit our web site at: <http://www.troi.com/> __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
