Preview of Ultraconv 1.5 and UCat 1.0
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NAME
   Ultraconv 1.5 + UCat 1.0
  
WHERE TO GET FROM
  Version 1.4 available on Aminet at gfx/conv/UConv14.lha since 1.2.1996
  Version 1.5 available in the middle of April under gfx/conv/UConv15.lha

STATUS
  Shareware, 12 US$ or 15 DM

AUTHOR
  Felix Schwarz
  Am Gründla 3
  D - 91074 Herzogenaurach
  Germany

DOCUMENTATION
  Now in German AND English.
  The program is also in both
  languages.

FEATURES
  Input-formats:
    - ILBM
    - PCX
    - GIF
    - BMP
    - JPEG
    - TIFF
    - Datatypes
    - Anim2
    - Anim3
    - Anim5
    - Anim7L
    - Anim7S
    - Anim-J
    - FLI
    - PNG
    - MPEG
    - PPM    
    
  Filters:
    - Scale
    - Rotate
    - Logo
    - Dithering (Quantitize)
    - Shear
    - Spread
    - Lighten
    - Darken
    - freely configurable filters:
        - Emboss
        - Edge-Detect(gray and COLOR!)
        - Flip-left
        - Flip-top
        - Frequency
        - Gray
        - Intensity
        - Invert
        - Noise-low
        - Noise-med
        - Noise-high
        - Smooth 3
        - Smooth 5
        - Smooth 7
        - RGB-Smear
        - Laser
        - Map to WB-col
        - Quadro
        - Oil-paint(gray and color)
        - Show

    - Mix-Anims
        - Mix up to four anims
        - Mix two anims and
            - mix them for 3D-glasses
            - fade them over (in and out!)
            - do a 50% visibility

    - Animated F/X (changed during animation)
        - Smelt (lets smelt your anim)
        - Fade in 
        - Fade out
        - Noise grow - simulates a smelting TV-Cable ;-)
        - Noise down
        - Random noise
        - Spread grow
        - Spread down
        - Normal -> white
        - White -> normal

  Output-formats:
    - HAM8/HAM6/ILBM/ILBM-DEEP
    - PCX
    - JPEG
    - BMP (Windoze- and OS/2)
    - Anim5
    - Anim7L
    - Anim7S
    - PNG
    - TIFF
    - PPM
    - one freely configurable saver-module(e.g. GIF, MAP, YUV, TARGA,..)

  Other features:
    - better looking GUI
    - two languages (German and English)
    - bug-fix safes at least 50% time against UConv 1.4
    - Key from UConv 1.2, 1.4 is already usable.
    - ASL-Filerequesters are now used.
    - Should work great on A1200 with 4 Megs of RAM.
    - more fast-conversion-modes
    - free configurable filters

PREVIEW
  This animation/convertion-tool will reach the Amiga-community
  very soon (in early April 1996).

  Ever dreamed of having no problems with reading and converting
  MPEG animations into Anim5-animations? Ever dreamed of combining
  four anims and needing no genlock to fade over two anims? Ever
  dreamed of making own filters that are usable on every animation?
  Ever dreamed of splitting an anim, scaling it or rotate it and save
  it as PCX? Ever dreamed of creating 3D-glasses-animation? Ever dreamed
  of fading in and out, letting grow noise-effect, smelt anims, ... ?
  So now you do not have to dream of any longer. Now your
  dream becomes true ... with Ultraconv 1.5.
  
  All filters and of course Anim-F/X are usable on anims AND pictures.
  The best at this is, that you can add own filters and use variables,
  macros and Anim-F/X for this.

  UConv accepts only one picture, series of pictures and anims as input
  and produces anims, only one picture or series of pictures as output.
  
  UConv 1.5 has a GUI which has the same ease of use like Adpro and you
  can manage everything with mouse.

  With UConv comes UCat 1.0, which catalogises every material of the upper
  called formats. The special feature of it is, that it shows animations as
  they are - animated in real-time. You see excatly nine etries at once.
  The unregistered version only manages up to 25 entries, the registered
  up to 500 per catalog.

  For more information contact the author: bs168@fim.uni-erlangen.de
  Also try UConv, which is available on Aminet under gfx/conv/UConv14.lha