Reader Mail & Rumor Report-May 10, 2007

In this special editon. we cover the release of BabyaTV.

BabyaTV

BabyaTV is now available.BabyaTV is a easy to use but powerful audio/video capture application that saves to QuickTime format (.mov)-which is ideal for use in iMovie, iDVD, websites or Final Cut Studio.

The outputted files can even be used on Windows PC's with QuickTime 7 or later and applications such as Babya OneVideo.

Features include:
* Includes a set of Cocoa wrappers to Sequence Grabber classes
* The app itself is written in Cocoa
*Universal binary
* Captures movies using Sequence Grabber
* Performs real-time preview of audio and video
* Supports arbitrary numbers of source SGChannels
* Supports saving of Sequence Grabber settings files
* Supports restoration of previous captures from saved Sequence Grabber settings files
Video-specific points of interest:
* Demonstrates video preview outside the Sequence Grabber using the SGDataProc -> ICMDecompressionSession -> CIImage -> NSOpenGLView sub-class
* Supports real-time scaling of video preview (live-resizing)
* Supports setting video preview codec quality (low, normal, high, etc.)
* Supports dynamic throttling of video preview fps
* Shows standard SGSettingsDialog for video channel configuration
Audio-specific points of interest:
* Demonstrates getting/setting most audio properties, including:
* Listing record devices * Selection of record device
* Selection of record device input selection
* Selection of record device stream format
* Setting of record device master and per-channel gain (in hardware or software)
* Enabling/disabling source channels on record device
* Assignment of audio channel labels to source channels
* Solo'ing and muting of source record channels
* Record device per-channel level metering
* Listing of preview devices
*Selection of preview device
* Selection of preview device output selection
* Selection of preview device stream format
* Setting of preview device master gain
* Hardware playthru or software real-time preview
* Selection of output format (including VBR formats, sample rate conversion, down-mixing, etc.)

Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036967

That's it for this special issue.

Reader Mail & Reader Mail Report-May 9, 2007



In this week's Reader mail & rumor report, we note the announcement of bSuite to Go and reveal the final icon for Babya PhotoPro and its release date. Also: BabyaTV training, File Browser 2 .

Babya PhotoPro

Lots to report about Babya PhotoPro this week

User guides

User and Install guides are now available to download:

User Guide

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45820/Babya-PhotoPro-Users-Guide

PDF:http://static.scribd.com/docs/b0rz15cho9ke4.pdf

Install Guide

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45814/Babya-PhotoPro-install-Guide

PDF:http://static.scribd.com/docs/165lrdbedjzky.pdf

Art Collection

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection is a free add-on to Babya PhotoPro that includes all of the images from Babya Presenter Pack 1 and over 20 newly created images that are suitable for backgrounds or for use with the sculpture feature.

Also included is a PDF file showing all of the available images.

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection will be available in June, alongside Babya PhotoPro.

Application Icon

The final application icon for Babya PhotoPro has been decided on and has been added to the latest build-the icon is of a camera zoom lens.

Here's a picture of the new icon:And a updated Babya PhotoPro screenshot showing the above icon:

I must thank MugenB16 from InterfaceLIFT for creating the icon that I chose for Babya PhotoPro.

Go visit InterfaceLIFT to see more great icons and other graphics.

Release date

Babya PhotoPro is almost ready-so expect it out by early next month.

Babya bSuite To Go

Babya bSuite To Go is the basic version of Babya bSuite for the 2008 version-featuring a quick notes taker,a simplified E-Type, a basic paint program and a timer.

It is the first version of Babya bSuite to be a portable application for use from USB flash drives.

The release date for bSuite to Go will be announced in June.

BabyaTV training

A training document for BabyaTV is now available:http://www.scribd.com/doc/41366/BabyaTV-

The Babya Comic-issue 1
The first issue of The Babya Comic is now out-and can be viewed at: http://www.comicspace.com/aafuss/comics.php?action=gallery&comic_id=4302

File Browser 2

Babya File Browser 2 is a improved version of Babya File Browser which lets you quickly preview images.

The new Babya File Browser is initially only available as part of Babya PhotoPro-but will be released as a separate application as well.

Like with Babya Album, all images are imported into a database-you can have multiple databases to store thousands of photos.

That's it for this week's edition.