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Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 for FileMaker Pro (troi-grabber-plug-in-15.hqx)

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From: Peter Baanen
Subject: Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 for FileMaker Pro

Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 is a very powerful tool for grabbing
pictures from a video input source and putting them directly into a
FileMaker container field. All from within FileMaker you can:

- preview the image stream from the video input source
- crop pictures to grab only the desired part of the video image (Mac
OS and Mac OS X only)
- rotate pictures before grabbing (Mac OS and Mac OS X only)
- grab pictures from a video input source and put them into your
FileMaker database
- record a movie from a video input source for a specified number of
seconds or until the mouse is clicked and save the movie to a
specified file on the hard disk (Mac OS and Mac OS X only)
- get timecodes of a recorded movie; you can get the timecode of the
beginning of the movie, of the end of the movie, the timecode at the
current point in the movie or the duration of the movie in timecode
(Mac OS and Mac OS X only)

New Features

Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.5 (release date April 18th, 2002) adds these
new functions and features:

- tested with FileMaker 5.5 and ported to Mac OS X; the Mac version
of the plug-in is now a so called 'Super Fat' plug-in that will run
on Mac OS 8, 9 and Mac OS X
- record a movie from a video input source and save it on the hard
disk (Mac OS and Mac OS X only)
- get timecodes of a recorded movie (Mac OS and Mac OS X only)
- improved and new example files

Suggested Uses

- a webcam database
- time lapse pictures
- easy casting
- festival-, meeting- or conference registration database with pictures
- security database
- medical database with pictures of the patients' condition
- capture a movie and administer the scenes and timecodes


Troi Grabber Plug-in is shareware and costs US$ 79 per user.
Developer licenses and multi-user discounts are available.