Video, movies, clips morphing in STOIK MorphMan
What is video morphing
The output of STOIK MorphMan program (Windows) is always a video sequence, but the input can be either still pictures, or videos. Morphing where the original material are video clips is called video-to-video morphing
When you load videos as Source and Target and place transition markers as you do with still images in STOIK MorphMan 2000 on first and last pairs of clip frames, STOIK MorphMan then automatically places markers in the intermediate position on all other pairs of frames thus defining a sequence of multiple morphs between successive frames of original clips.
You can browse along the project using Sequence Browser window and commands from Sequence menu to manually adjust position of control markers on intermediate frames as necessary.
Once markers are put at their places, STOIK MorphMan (Windows) will calculate multiple morphing transitions between corresponding frames and generate output movie by taking a single intermediate morph from each pair along the sequence.
Sequence Browser window of STOIK MorphMan.
More details and practical advises can be found in program Help and on STOIK MorphMan lessons pages on this site. Note that there is a very informative animated tutorial dedicated to video-to-video morphing in STOIK MorphMan - run menu Help-Tutorial command. Tutor will guide you through all steps of creating a project, and program will actually DO what tutor demonstrates.
When do you need video-to-video morphing
Stoik Morphman is the best morphing program to split (fade) two videos together.
- When you stitch two video clips together in video editing program such as STOIK VideoMan supplied with STOIK MorphMan and need really smooth transition.
- Take two short sequences of frames from the end of first clip and from the beginning of the second clip
- Create a morphing transition clip between them in STOIK MorphMan .
- Place original clips on one video track in STOIK VideoMan, and the morphing transition clip - on another track.
- Compare the results obtained with morphing transition and with standard method (fading).
Stitching clips and morphing transition in STOIK VideoMan
- When you create a special video effect with transformation of one moving object to another, like one shown in the Black Or White video clip by Michael Jackson, where the faces of different people change one into another and in numerous TV commercials
STOIK MorphMan comes with full-feature video editor
STOIK MorphMan software comes bundled with the full-featured video editor STOIK VideoMan. It completed with:
- Multitrack video and audio composition functions
- Dynamic morphing effects
- Transitions
- Titling
- Color keying
- Capture module
- Direct import of clips from DV cameras
- Other video capture hardware
This makes STOIK MorphMan program a complete morphing and video editing software with all necessary tools to capture and prepare original clips, morph pictures and videos together, and incorporate it into the output movie.
Read more about STOIK Video Man
Picture, image morphing in STOIK MorphMan – Morph pictures together
Stoik Morphman is the best morphing software to merge (fade) two pictures together.
STOIK MorphMan morphing software includes and extends all photo and picture morphing functionality of STOIK MorphMan 2000.
STOIK MorphMan morphing program creates a sequence of intermediate frames that seamlessly transform (merge) one image to another and generates output in a form of movie or image file sequence.
Morphing is facilitated by vector drawing tools for setting transition points, live preview, support of MPEG, DV, QuickTime formats.
STOIK MorphMan calculates morphing effect using fast and precise algorithms to achieve higher smoothness and accuracy of transition.
STOIK MorphMan adds new Onion Skin interface mode when Source and Target windows are blended together to facilitate visualization of relative positioning of corresponding markers in Source and Target.
STOIK MorphMan 2000
Morphing project creation and editing in STOIK MorphMan
- Vector drawing tools for fast, easy, and precise positioning of control points and lines (markers)
- Primitives and shapes for setting control markers
- Editing of shapes
- Grouping and ungrouping of markers
- Transformation tools for groups of control markers
- 8-bit mask to define region of interest
- Vector editing tools for mask
- Fast and precise morphing algorithms
- Ability to define individual transition path for each control marker or shape
- Edge detection tools: Smart Polygon and Snap to Edges
Import/Output
- Import frames from MPEG, QuickTime, DV movies
- Import frames from TWAIN devices
- Render to MPEG, QuickTime, DV movies
- Render to animated GIF and Flash animation
- Rendering multiple projects in separate threads
- Render movies over 2Gb in size
- Unlimited number of frames in output movie or sequence
- Printing of output frames
Morphing Interface
- Dual window (Source and Target) and Onion Skin interface modes
- Real-time real-mode preview of any frame of the morphing sequence
- Unlimited Undo of all operations including setting/editing markers and project properties changes
- Animated tutorial with extendible lessons
- Context help
- Swap function for easier sequential morphing
- Link Windows function for easier setting of control points in distortion morphs
- Storing workplace layout in morph project
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