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DESCRIPTION
Kinemac is a real time, 3D animation and presentation program that allows you to create your own professional 3D animations with the simplicity of a 2D presentation tool.

Just drag your images, texts, movies and songs onto the Kinemac stage to get them into your animation. Kinemac allows you to apply images and movies onto the ready-to-use objects like cubes, cylinders, spheres, tubes, pies, rectangles, disks... which you can easily animate by setting key frames. Also, it lets you quickly create 3D Text and 2D scrolling text (RTF and RTFD) with any kind of font, color, size, shadows, embedded images...

A powerful animation control system based on Bezier curves allows you to carefully control any aspect of the movement such as translations, rotations, resizing, fading, speed, acceleration and deceleration of any object on the stage. The result is a professional and smooth animation which you can play in real-time/full-screen or export to a QuickTime movie file.

Kinemac uses the latest technologies like the OpenGL engine, QuickTime and the Cocoa frameworks, making it the ideal application to create advertising for TV, trailers for movies, video-clips, instant scrolling messaging to put "on air" in real time, video content for CD, DVD, web sites... Also it has been said to be "awesome" to illustrate concepts through 3D animations at conferences, schools and universities. Kinemac is for Mac OS X only.

Supports the following Video cards:

  • ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition (recommended)
  • ATI Radeon 9800 XT (R360) (recommended)
  • ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350) (recommended)
  • ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (R300)
  • ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)
  • ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (RV350)
  • ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (RV M11)
  • ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (RV M100
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL (NV40)
  • NVIDIA GeForce Go5200 (NV34M)
  • NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (NV34)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL

    We have tested it on a G5 Dual 2GHz with ATI Radeon 9800 XT (256 Video-RAM). Even on a PowerBook G4, Kinemac runs well with a few objects and with a texture movie 320 x 240.

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    WHAT'S NEW
    Version 1.8.1:
    • Fixed a bug on the Bezier horizontal ruler view when clicking on the ruler view.
    • Fixed a bug on the Bezier ruler view. It displayed the green playback marker even in case of ruler in Ticks.
    • Fixed a bug when adding points to a 3D Path on the Left and Right views.
    • Fixed a bug on the Script sprites (exit script).
    • Fixed a bug on the "Show TV Safe Area" check-box.
    • Fixed a bug when exporting to a QT movie on PPC machines.
    REQUIREMENTS
    • G4 or better
    • Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later
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    SCREENSHOT

    Developer:Kinemac
    Downloads:13,518
      - Version d/l:368
    Multimedia & Design:Animation
    License:Demo
    Date:26 Nov 2009
    Platform:PPC/Intel
    Price:$299.00
    RATING
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    Kinemac User Reviews (7 posts)Write A Review
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    Feb 5 2008

    PHILBACH  Kinemac 1.6 was released on February 5, 2008. I am a home user and use 3d applications for Titles most of the time.

    Kinemac is an outstanding program. Its easy to learn. Its support pages are only around 80 versus thousands for more traditional 3d applications.

    The use of paths for animation, multiple cameras. The able to apply movie textures to various objects makes this application a pleasure to use and it works nicely with Motion 3, FCP and just about any Quicktime application.

    It does not create objects but has a nice supply of primitives and can import Object and SVG files as well.

    I highly recommend this program and would suggest you look at some of its creations on the kinemac web site.   
    (Version 1.6)

    praisebury
    +5
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    Feb 5 2008

    GROOVEMACHINE  SithLord, you can't blame the developer for not developing for such an old operating system. Most people now are either on Tiger or Leopard. If you're going to give him a 1 star review, don't just do it because he didn't develop it for your outdated system. Write a real review on the actual app, not how Panther can't run it, please.  
    (Version 1.6)

    praisebury
    +4
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    Sep 14 2008

    ROY VAN DER WONING  Tiger was released a mere 2 weeks before that review was posted. That hardly made Panther "outdated" at the time.  
    (Version 1.6.6)

    praisebury
    +3

    Dec 5 2005
    *....

    SITHLORD  If you still have OS 10.3.X Panther, don't bother with ANY of the links. The Panther link takes you to an expired beta and the Tiger link download refuses to run under Panther. Way to go, Kinemac. If you can't make a working demo for your product, how can I try it before I buy it?  
    (Version 1.0)

    praisebury
    -13
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    Jan 15 2007

    HOLYPOLY  Rubbish - how can you rate it if you couldn't try it? m0r0n  
    (Version 1.5.1)

    praisebury
    +3

    Sep 29 2005
    ****.

    ANONYMOUS  This is a great program for animations and movie making as you can read its for G5 or G$ with last cards for video.

    The kwality is perfect!!  
    (Version 0.8.0b)

    praisebury
    0
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    Aug 3 2005

    SITHLORD  If you have Tiger, you can click on the Download Now link. If you have Panther, go to the site and download the Panther version.  
    (Version 0.6.2b)

    praisebury
    0
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    Jun 23 2005

    ANONYMOUS  Further to my comment below, the beta has now expired and AFAIK, there is no update on the website.  
    (Version 0.3.8b)

    praisebury
    0
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    Jun 2 2005
    **½..

    ANONYMOUS  As a C4D user, this is an interesting idea with interesting results.

    Makes good use of your gfx card. Over time, it would be good if they'll start to coax some of the other effects like fog, etc. Hopefully, the 0.36b designation means there'll be plenty of improvments to come. Speaking of which, if I can't buy the software, then you could at least remove the watermark and allow me to actually use the product. Minus points there.

    The only other unknown issue here is that there is no idea of price. This could be an excellent piece of shareware, or a full priced duck, dead in the water - remember, there's a lot of competition out there.  
    (Version 0.3.6b)

    praisebury
    0
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