Reader Mail & Rumor Report-October 23, 2006

In today's report-we sneak preview Babya Production Suite.


Babya Production Suite:
Coming in early 2007 is the only free and complete production suite designed for the film, animation & music industry-Babya Production Suite.

Babya announced Production Suite 2007 this week-which is a complete
video & audio production suite for the film and music industry.

In this article, A.A. Fussy explains how the digital media divison at Babya software came up with this new suite, and what you get with it.


How we came up with it:

Babya said that they had the idea of developing Production Suite after the success of BabyaLogic-which has been downloaded almost 26, 000 times on CNET Download.com and Babya Firestorm.

It was a bit of deja vu to the industry at the time-when our main competitor was (then) free
REAPER, now we're up aganist the established brands, according to Fussy.

In fact we were inspired by Apple Logic Pro, but also our own bMix.

Babya bMovie started life as a AVI creator.

Production Suite's version is more advanced and has a very unusual and unnatural workflow that empowers you to experiement with DirectX based editing, says Fussy. He adds, "It's so unique, we just did a test slideshow and edited like if you were back in the halcyon days of MS-DOS".

bLogo(CG graphics software) was originally part of bSuite-a stunning title creator that is also coming with Production Suite 2007.

You also get Photo Workshop XL-for the video graphics creation workflow.


How it compares:

While other complete production suites designed for the film, animation & music industry are available from well-known companies such as Avid or Apple, they are very expensive and for the real experts in the industry, says Babya's A.A. Fussy.

"We are offering ours for free", he added.


What makes Production Suite 2007 cutting edge?:

Production Suite 2007 conbines the existing Babya
Logic Pro and OneVideo with new video production
applications-such as Babya bMovie Pro and Babya
Presenter DX.


Babya Presenter DX:

Babya Presenter DX is a drag and drop DirectX based
slideshow creator, that creates stunning video & image
based slideshows.

Transitions available include:

Barn
Blinds
Burn Film
Center Curls
ColorFade
Compositor
Curls
Curtains
Fade
Fade White
Flow Motion
Glass Block
Grid
Inset
Iris
Jaws
Lens
Light Wipe
Liquid
Page Curl
PeelABCD
SMPTE Wipe


Babya bMovie Pro:

Babya bMovie is a graphical tool for creating
Microsoft DirectShow Editing Services timelines and
editing of Babya XTL format slideshows


Features:

Loading and saving XTL project files
Adding, editing, and deleting timeline objects
Previewing a timeline


Babya Logic:

Babya Logic is an powerful suite of pro-quality audio
production software, included with Production Suite
which includes Babya Logic, a 8-track music creation
application-that enables you to create and compose
music and also includes Babya Jam Pack: Studio tools,
Babya MicroKit and UltraSynth.

Babya Logic features

Babya Riff Editor (create and play custom guitar
riffs)
Babya Visual Music (record your own music using a
on-screen keyboard and a scripting language)
Babya bMix Notater (make and print sheet music)
Babya Keyboard (a on-screen keyboard ideal for working
out a song you'll make in Babya Logic )
Babya Sound Canvas (edit Roland® SC55 files or MIDI
files)
Babya Easy Guitar Tuner (a useful way to tune your own
guitar)
Babya Logic and Logic Pro also includes:
Babya MicroKit-percussion sequencer software
Babya UltraSynth-a standalone virtual synth
application
Logic Scorer:
Compose and print music scores & sheet music
Babya SampleStudio:
Mix and record sound samples
Instruments & Synths:
Babya CS80
Casio style MIDI keyboard instrument
Babya UltraSynth
Generate quirky and intriguing sounds with this
DirectX based synth
Guitar Amp Pro:
Create & tune sweet custom guitar chords from arena to
funk, live or in studio
and control MIDI instruments.
Babya EXM:
Generate the wildest sounds imaginable using 2
oscilloscope with support for
custom defined envelopes
Babya EFM:
Play cool and classy FM sounds using this keyboard
based synth.
Babya ESE:
Funk and techno sounds of the 1980's can be recreated
with Babya ESE-a beep based synthesizer with a custom
music generator application included.
Babya EVB1:
Easily create binaural music tones with this
interesting synth.
Effect Plugins:
Babya Audio Effects Studio:
Quickly audition sound files with gargle or echo
effects
SoundGen:
Quickly produce PCM audio files with ADSR support
Bass Maker:
Create electrifying & thunderous bass based music


Babya OneVideo:

OneVideo features QuickTime authoring, and iPod export
plus YouTube video downloading in the one package.

OneVideo includes Babya QuickTime Studio, which is a
powerful application which uses QuickTime 7's COM
Control to display and manipulate movies, using a
familiar Apple QuickTime movie controller.

Babya QuickTime Studio has the following capabilities:

Standard QuickTime 7 features available in Babya
QuickTime Studio are:
- Movie playback with a movie controller container
- Open, Open from URL, Close
- Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo
- Display movie info. such as duration, track types,
track formats, etc.
Babya's Fussy also noted, Babya Production Suite is
our new and professional video and audio production
suite aimed at professional film makers and muscians.


Babya Lava

Is a innovative animation software designed
for the creation of children's animated series which
feature prominment use of geometric "stick figures".


Babya Eruption


Is based on the popular Babya Firestorm (featured on several websites and in the print media),
allowing easy creation of action, volcanic style scenes-also ideal for keyframing.


Shake(Babya)

is Babya Production Suite's Motion graphics and visual effects software.


Components


Babya Shake:Morph

Babya Shake:Morph is a image morpher that can export to AVI for use in video production or to WMV with Babya WMEnc


Babya Effects FX

See Babya Effects FX


Shake(Babya):


Babya Shake:Surfacer


bLogo(CG graphics software)


How it all comes together as one:

Using Babya Logic, they can score and compose a
compelling soundtrack and with the the video editing
software included, they can combine pre-recorded
footage transferred from a DV or HDV camcorder and
turn it into a great film.

Then they can master it to DVD or to the web.

We're taking advantage of the ever increasingly feature rich
iPods and Vista with our suites (it'll also work on
Windows XP).

Babya Production Suite will be available for Windows
Vista in early 2007.

Finally, A.A. notes-"there's some top secret features that we're not ready to showcase just yet, but I'm sure you'll like them as much as we do"


Babya Wiki:
There is now a Babya wiki at http://babyasoftwaregroup.pbwiki.com/