Wax"Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime" - at least that's what the web site says.This is actually quite a flexible tool along the same lines as Blender, in that it is multi-faceted. However it isn't as complicated as Blender though and the learning curve is shallower.  It can be used as a stand-alone editor (NLE)
which will allow video to be edited as required. But it can also be
used as a plug-in to tools such as Vegas and Adobe Premier.As a package it comes bundled with a number of 2D and 3D Plugins and transitions for creating effects. Full featured 3D compositing with 3d objects, lighting, shadows, texture generators, etc. In fact it's quite powerful as a tool including plug-in's such as: *
RotoMate - rotoscope/paint over video with fully keyframmable shapes
and masks
* Shatter - create explosive effects * Particle Generator - generate various natural particle effects like fire, smoke, rain etc * Text 3D - create extruded/beveled 3D text, and much more... It can also be used with plug-in's created for VirtualDub and presets from Windows Movie Maker. It is fairly unique amongst the other packages detailed on this site in that it actually has the full film project management functionality incorporated in it. This includes media bins/folders, element properties and comments for ease of use. In terms of the codecs it supports, the following are listed: Input formats
: AVI, WAV, all popular image formats.
Output formats : AVI, MPEG, WAV, Flash, all popular image formats. (AVI and WAV formats support compressed audio too, using Audio Codecs installed in your PC). Summary This is a new product to me, but it has strong looking functionality. I would be inclinded to have a deeper look at this if wanting something more complex than, say Windows Movie Maker, but less complex than Blender NOTE: This product is Windows only. Click here for the product home page Click here to download the product Click here for the product's user forum Click here to return from Wax to the list of Free Video Editing tools
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