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Troi Automatisering releases beta version of Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.4b1 for FileMaker Pro

New Plug-in lets you record pictures and movies directy with FileMaker Pro databases.

Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, March 13th, 2002--Troi Automatisering today announced the release of the beta version of Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.4b1, for FileMaker Pro 4.0 through 5.5.

What is Troi Grabber Plug-in?

Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.4b1 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)

Peter Baanen, company president, states: "Movie makers now finally have the possibility to administer their movies in FileMaker, complete with timecodes. This opens up a lot of new possibilities!"

New Features

Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.4b1 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

In the download we even included an example file showing how to insert a movie into a container field, in cooperation with the Troi File Plug-in. You can find more information on the Troi File Plug-in here: <http://www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html>.

The possibilities are virtually limitless when using the Troi Grabber Plug-in. We invite you to test drive the new functions and see what you can do with it!

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

Pricing & Availability

A fully functional beta version of Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.4b1 is available for downloading at Troi's Web site at: <http://www.troi.com/software/grabberplugin.html>.

Note that this is a beta release, there may still be bugs in this version. Please be careful, save other work first and test this software using a test database. This beta version will expire on May 2002.

Troi Grabber Plug-in 1.4b1 is available for Mac OS 8.1-9.2 and for Mac OS X and costs $79 per user. At this point there is no new Windows version, but version 1.2 is still available for Windows95/98/Me and NT/2000/XP. Details on developer licenses and multi-user discounts can be found on our web site. You can order licenses from our web site.

About Troi Automatisering

Troi Automatisering is leading developer of cross platform FileMaker plug-ins, databases and utilities. For more information, visit our web site at:
<http://www.troi.com/>   

Contact information  

Diana Budding,
Troi Automatisering
Vuurlaan 18
2408 NB Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-172-426606,
Fax: +31-172-470539

Newsroom: <http://www.troi.com/news/>

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