Canopus Imaginate 2.0.(Product/Service Evaluation)

from where I stand, pan and zoom tools are going in all the right directions. In 2003, we had two standalone tools devoted to the task, as Canopus Imaginate joined StageTools MovingPicture Producer in that emerging market. Both tools also competed in the plug-in market with their support for various prosumer NLEs. On the consumer side, Mac users had the "Ken Burns effect" as a built-in feature of iMovie--standard issue in the iLife suite--and early 2004 brought Roxio Easy Media Creator 7, which offered integrated pan and zoom capabilities in its array of consumer media manipulatio