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How To Get Hot Morph Effects On Your Mac.

Morph I’ve worked on Mac graphic applications for nearly two decades and I’m a little jaded, having seen it all.

Morph Age creates stunning video morph scenes. Create your own Sci Fi series on a Mac.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is value, right? A single set of effects can make or break a production.

A more than nifty application called Morph Age has come of age. It morphs, warps images and movies on Mac OS X.

You remember morphing, right? It’s everywhere these days but was ultra cool and expensive technology when Michael Jackson’s Black or White hit the screens.

Those video clips of people’s portraits morphing from one person to another are absolute classics.

That’s not to mention all the stars in the video. Remember MacCaulay Culkin?

Similar effects can be produced on your Mac using Morph Age.

You define curves on one image or many images. Changes in the curves get reflected on the other image.

Voila! There’s an in point and an outpoint and a corresponding distortion and morphing, one image to another.

While the tools are capable and Mac-like, making quick work of images morphed to images, the video to video morph takes a little work.

QuickTime movies take the place of images so you can morph one video, including movement, into another video—even overlapping sound.

Image morphing is absolutely easy and the resultant morph is saved as a QuickTime movie, so it can be dropped into an iMovie production, or imported into Final Cut Pro as a clip.

On the cheap, you could use your iSight camera built in to the Intel iMacs, MacBooks, and MacBook Pro. Morph from one scene to another.

In true Mac fashion, there’s direct access to movies in iMovie and photos from iPhoto, just as if Morph Age was a part of iLife.

The morhping process, whether on images to images, or video clip to video clip, works using curves.

You define the curves and the location on one image, and then the other image.

That creates the morph between images. There’s also a blending feature which allows overlays of parts, but not other parts. That’s what you see in Michael Jackson’s video.

As with any professional video or imaging application on the Mac, you won’t be a Photoshop-type master in an hour. Images are relatively easy.

Video requires more thought, planning, and detail, though Morph Age makes professional results look easy.

While not an inexpensive Mac application, Morph Age has tremendous value in the right scenario or production.

Click Here to check out Morph Age, and Click Here to view the video tutorials and samples.

This is impressive technology that carries a tremendous value depending on your production needs and expectations.

Or, Click Here for the YouTube link.

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