I recently tried the programs Inzomia and Zoom Studio, and found that it is possible on my 733 MHz machine to achieve completely smooth pans and zooms of full screen images in real time with these programs. Ie, the pans and zooms look just about as smooth as what you could achieve with a movie camera. I assume this effect is achieved by maximizing the potential of one's graphics card. (My card is not that new or fancy, but it executed the effects just fine.)
Until I saw these programs, I'd assumed these kinds of effects weren't even possible in real time. I would love it if IrfanView could implement these kinds of effects.
In Inzomia, these smooth pans and zooms are controlled by dragging the mouse, and this is nice, but I think it would be cooler to automate these effects after the user performs a single command. For example (ignoring existing key assignments for a moment) CTRL-<right-arrow> might tell IrfanView to start a pan to the right. Then IrfanView would slowly start panning smoothly to the right. The speed of the pan could be set by the user.
Smooth zooms could be controlled in a similar way.
With some thought, one could find ways to implement simple commands to initiate pan movements at user-controlled angles(not just left, right, up and down), and smooth zooms to user-set endpoints.
Ideally, it would be cool to be able to save these smooth pans and zooms with the image so that they could be incorporated into slideshows.
Until I saw these programs, I'd assumed these kinds of effects weren't even possible in real time. I would love it if IrfanView could implement these kinds of effects.
In Inzomia, these smooth pans and zooms are controlled by dragging the mouse, and this is nice, but I think it would be cooler to automate these effects after the user performs a single command. For example (ignoring existing key assignments for a moment) CTRL-<right-arrow> might tell IrfanView to start a pan to the right. Then IrfanView would slowly start panning smoothly to the right. The speed of the pan could be set by the user.
Smooth zooms could be controlled in a similar way.
With some thought, one could find ways to implement simple commands to initiate pan movements at user-controlled angles(not just left, right, up and down), and smooth zooms to user-set endpoints.
Ideally, it would be cool to be able to save these smooth pans and zooms with the image so that they could be incorporated into slideshows.
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