Advanced, easy video compositing
Magnet is the easiest way to customize your movies and share them with your friends. With advanced motion tracking, video compositions and special effects can be defined over the sequence, that evolves depending on the content of the movie. Using Magnet, you are able attach a picture or animation to a movie (think of tatoo), to define a blur zone that will follow the eyes of a person, or even to emit particles from moving objects.
With Magnet, you can add special effects such as replacing your own head with a cat head. More generally, you can attach an image to moving objects in a video, or attach animation, particles, or black (or blur) zones or even custom Quartz Composer animations.
Just let your imagination go, and add glasses, a hat, a mask, tatoo.
How does it work?
1. Add a number of tracking probes that will track the motion of objects in your video
2. Create compositions (image, particles, blur zones) that are linked to the probes
3. Preview and render the resulting animation as a QuickTime movie. Share it with your friends.
Blazingly fast GPU-based rendering
Hit play, Magnet renders in real-time, whatever image size. Magnet has an extremely fast rendering engine that combines CPU operations (optimized for Intel Macs) and GPU, or graphics card, power. It enables real-time rendering on mega pixel images still being accurate to sub-pixel. Moreover, the latest version of Magnet even added support for the Core Image library of Mac OS X for filtering, also executed on the graphics card for maximum performance.
Definitely Mac
Magnet is a Mac software from the start. You can import various image formats from any sources, including direct access to your iPhoto and iMovie media. You can even use your iSight, which is bundled with almost every mac nowadays, directly from within Magnet to import a picture or animation. Magnet further leverages your computer power by allowing Quartz Composer effects (Sepia Tone, Crystalize, and your own effects). The rendered animation is in QuickTime format, enabling further composition in Final Cut Pro or iMovie, or even export it to your video iPod!
