((Videator)) -> Press Release

January 27, 2011 - San Francisco, California – Stone Design, the original Mac OS X software house with over 22 years of experience with major titles like Stone Works™, Create®, and iMaginator™, today announced immediate availability of Videator™ 5.0 from the Mac App Store.

Videator is the innovative and powerful Vee-Jaying, movie-mixing and video processing application that lets you instantly make movies with all sorts of effects from live video or existing movies. Created for the Mac App Store, Videator 5.0 takes full advantage of Apple’s newest computers and operating systems. Videator is both a “PhotoShoppe For Video” and a realtime performance video creation adventure.

CEO Andrew Stone remarked, "We have had so much success in the AppStore with Twittelator on the iPhone and iPad, we wanted to explore the opportunity that the Mac App Store offers."

According to Stone Design CEO, Andrew Stone, “For just ten bucks, you can turn your Mac into a world class VJ’ing platform and special effects generator for all your quicktime movies! Videator gives everyone the ability to instantly create realtime art with live streaming input. Overlaying as many video cameras and other movies as you want, you can make your own professional and stunning movies.”

Videator provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for Mac OS X’s Core Image and Core Video technologies, giving both home users and video professionals instant access to over 125 effects, transitions, and filters. With Videator, users can layer movies, multiple live cameras, images, paint, music and text over video, as well as apply, modify, and re-order multiple effects to achieve subtle enhancements or astounding artistic results. Crop, scale, rotate, flip, skew, change exposure and brighten movies in real time, and then save processed movies as QuickTime or iPod, and images as industry-standard TIFF or JPEG files.

Stone Design Corp, founded in 1984 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was the first developer to ship a product for Mac OS X’s predecessor, the NeXT Computer in 1989. With a mission to develop low cost, 100% Macintosh OS X Universal applications that are a joy to use, Stone Design has shipped over a sixteen design and productivity applications including Stone Works, Stone Studio, Create®, iMaginator™, PhotoToWeb®, PStill™, TimeEqualsMoney™, SliceAndDice™, and StampInStone™. iPhone and iPad releases include Twittelator, Twittelator Pro, Twittelator for iPad, Gesture, iGrafitti, TalkingPics, SoundBite, MobileMix, iCreated, Intentionizer, Pulsar and TweetTV.

June 7, 2007 - San Francisco – Stone Design, the original Mac OS X software house with over 19 years of experience with major titles like Stone Works™, Create®, and iMaginator™, today announced immediate availability of Videator™ 4.0. It’s yet another major (and free to registered users!) upgrade to the innovative and powerful Vee-Jaying, movie-making and video processing application that lets you instantly make movies with all sorts of effects from live video or existing movies. Created to run natively on INTEL and PPC processors, Videator takes full advantage of Apple’s newest computers and operating systems. Videator is both a “PhotoShoppe For Video” and a realtime performance video creation adventure.

You can connect as many cameras to your computer as you like, for example the MacBook Pro has 2 builtin fire wire ports, the iSight and 3 USB ports natively. You can add effects to each camera’s input individually.

According to Stone Design CEO, Andrew Stone, “Now you can turn your Mac into a world class VJ’ing platform! Mere mortals can instantly create realtime art with live streaming input. With the ability to add as many live input cameras as you want, you can make video compositions that rival anything that Hollywood puts out! Or turn your Desktop into a Videator Kaleidoscope for some real fun.”

Videator provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)’s Core Image and Core Video technologies, giving both home users and video professionals instant access to over 110 effects, transitions, and filters. With Videator, users can layer movies, multiple live cameras, images, paint, music and text over video, as well as apply, modify, and re-order multiple effects to achieve subtle enhancements or astounding artistic results. Crop, scale, rotate, flip, skew, change exposure and brighten movies in real time, and then save processed movies as QuickTime or iPod, and images as industry-standard TIFF or JPEG files.

February 6, 2007 - Cyberlandia, Planet Earth – Stone Design, the original Mac OS X software house with over 19 years of experience with major titles like Stone Works™, Create®, and iMaginator™, today announced immediate availability of Videator™ 3.0, a major upgrade to the innovative and powerful Vee-Jaying, movie-making and video processing application that lets you instantly make movies with all sorts of effects from live video or existing movies. Created to run natively on INTEL and PPC processors, Videator takes full advantage of Apple’s newest computers. Videator is both a “PhotoShoppe For Video” and a realtime performance video creation adventure.

Read the complete gory details of what’s new, what’s enhanced and what’s fixed!

According to Stone Design CEO, Andrew Stone, “Videator has become a premier VJ’ing software tool, giving ordinary humans the ability to create realtime art with live streaming input. With the integration of XaoS fractal generation, and the ability to create recursive live inputs, you’ll be pushing the envelope of the visual experience in minutes!”

Videator provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)’s Core Image and Core Video technologies, giving both home users and video professionals instant access to over 110 effects, transitions, and filters. With Videator, users can layer movies, images, paint, music and text over video, as well as apply, modify, and re-order multiple effects to achieve subtle enhancements or astounding artistic results. Crop, scale, rotate, flip, skew, change exposure and brighten movies in real time, and then save processed movies as QuickTime or iPod, and images as industry-standard TIFF or JPEG files.

November 3, 2006 - Albuquerque, New Mexico – Stone Design, the original Mac OS X software house with over 19 years of experience with major titles like Stone Studio™, Create®, and iMaginator™, today announced immediate availability of Videator™ 2.2, a powerful Vee-Jaying, movie-making and video processing application that lets you instantly make movies with all sorts of effects from live video or existing movies. Created to run natively on INTEL and PPC processors, Videator takes full advantage of Apple’s newest computers.

According to Stone Design CEO, Andrew Stone, “Videator has become a premier VJ’ing software tool, giving ordinary humans the ability to create realtime art. With the integration of XaoS fractal generation, and the ability to create recursive live inputs, you’ll be pushing the envelope of the visual experience in minutes!”

Videator provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)’s Core Image and Core Video technologies, giving both home users and video professionals instant access to over 108 effects, transitions, and filters. With Videator, users can layer movies, images, paint, music and text over video, as well as apply, modify, and re-order multiple effects to achieve subtle enhancements or astounding artistic results. Crop, scale, rotate, flip, skew, change exposure and brighten movies in real time, and then save processed movies as QuickTime or iPod, and images as industry-standard TIFF or JPEG files.

Stone Design Corp, founded in 1984 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was the first developer to ship a product for NeXT hardware in 1989. With a mission to develop low cost, 100% Macintosh OS X native applications that are a joy to use, Stone Design has shipped over a dozen design and productivity applications for Macintosh OS X including Stone Studio, Create®, iMaginator™, PhotoToWeb®, PStill™, TimeEqualsMoney™, SliceAndDice™, and StampInStone™.

September 11, 2006 - Albuquerque, New Mexico – Stone Design, the original Mac OS X software house with over 19 years of experience with major titles like Stone Studio™, Create®, and iMaginator™, today announced immediate availability of Videator™ 2.0, a powerful movie-making and video processing application that lets you instantly make movies with all sorts of effects from live video or existing movies. Created to run natively on INTEL and PPC processors, Videator takes full advantage of Apple’s newest computers.

Videator provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)’s Core Image and Core Video technologies, giving both home users and video professionals instant access to over 108 effects, transitions, and filters. With Videator, users can layer movies, images, paint, music and text over video, as well as apply, modify, and re-order multiple effects to achieve subtle enhancements or astounding artistic results. Crop, scale, rotate, flip, skew, change exposure and brighten movies in real time, and then save processed movies as QuickTime or iPod, and images as industry-standard TIFF or JPEG files.

• Each overlayed Movie, Image and Text can have its own chain of Sub Effects so you can create independent effects - for example, several movies playing in perspective, or text wrapped around a sphere, or a glassy or blurred image, and on and on!

According to Stone Design CEO and chief software architect Andrew Stone, “Videator 2.0 lets anyone make professional movies quickly and easily. And its new VJ features and random effects lets you automatically create interesting visual displays, opening a whole new world of digital media creation. Given its modest price point, infinite expandability, and ease of use, we believe that Videator should be in the toolbox of everyone with an iSight or digital video camera. Even without a camera, you can add stunning effects and audio to any quicktime movie. Read what one user said! Videator expands the envelope and puts the new MacBooks to the ultimate stress test!”

John Perry Barlow, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, said “Videator seriously rocks. Video artists have struggled mightily to get the same kinds of effects they can get with trivial ease with Videator. I don't work with video - but I appreciate how it will improve the dispositions of my video artist friends!”

“Innovative Tiger technologies like Core Video, Core Image and Spotlight make it the best platform for anyone working with digital movie making,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “Stone Design have done a great job with Videator and we're thrilled they continue to deliver creative applications for Mac OS X users.”

Videator takes any Core Image “Image Unit” and automatically creates an interface for accessing the unit's options. It will load and display all of the Image Units that are provided with Tiger, including blurs, color adjustments, distortions, styles, compositing effects, edge sharpeners and transitions, as well as any custom image units provided by third parties. In addition, it comes with nine custom plug-ins from Stone Design, including Mask by Color, Oval Mask, Crop Fade Mask, Make Transparent, Colorize, Fun Mirror, Grayscale and Polka Dots.

Videator can fit into a professional workflow, with ease of use and Applescriptability. Sequences of effects with set parameters, known as an "Effects Chain", can be saved and re-used with the drag and drop Library. Videator incorporates Spotlight technology for instant searching on user-supplied keywords and image and effect names. Videator is a LinkBack server: Videator images copied and pasted into a LinkBack client (like Stone Design’s flagship page layout and web authoring application, Create^®) can be easily modified in Videator, with saved changes appearing instantly in the LInkBack client document.

Stone continues, “You don't need to be a pro to make eye-popping movies. Download and try Videator at full strength for 14 days free, and you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to make movies or spice up your existing movies. There are video apps that cost over 10 times as much, but they certainly don't have that many more features. At only $49, with Free Upgrades For Life, it’s a must-have piece of software!” For more information, visit stone.com/Videator/

Stone Design ships Videator^™1.0

May 23, 2006 - Albuquerque, New Mexico – Stone Design, the original Mac OS X software house with over 19 years of experience with major titles like Stone Studio™, Create®, and iMaginator™, today announced immediate availability of Videator™ 1.0, a powerful movie-making and video processing application that lets you instantly make movies with all sorts of effects from live video or existing movies. Created to run natively on INTEL and PPC processors, Videator takes full advantage of Apple’s newest computers.

Videator provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)’s Core Image and Core Video technologies, giving both home users and video professionals instant access to over 108 effects, transitions, and filters. With Videator, users can layer movies, images, paint, music and text over video, as well as apply, modify, and re-order multiple effects to achieve subtle enhancements or astounding artistic results. Crop, scale, rotate, flip, skew, change exposure and brighten movies in real time, and then save processed movies as QuickTime or iPod, and images as industry-standard TIFF or JPEG files.

According to Stone Design CEO and chief software architect Andrew Stone, “Videator 1.0 lets anyone make professional movies quickly and easily. Given its modest price point, infinite expandability, and ease of use, we believe that Videator should be in the toolbox of everyone with an iSight or digital video camera. Even without a camera, you can add stunning effects and audio to any quicktime movie. Read what one user said! Videator expands the envelope and puts the new MacBooks to the ultimate stress test!”