Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd.

Michel St-Pierre

Lorne Trottier

Jean Lapierre

André Laframboise

Andr&eacute; Laframboise

David Bordeleau

Andre Laframboise

An architecture which allows real-time video editing using a 2D/3D graphics engine. This architecture comprises input and output buffers. It receives video streams from either compressed sources of data or non compressed sources of data. This architecture allows a flexible upgrade of the video effects using software plug ins.

Real-time video editing architecture

A software library using a 3D graphics engine to produce a real time 3D particle explosion effect is provided. The particle explosion effect creation tool allows users to create their own particle explosion effect by defining their own shapes in a graphics image data file and allows to graphically define a plurality of explosion parameters of the video particle explosion effect in the graphics image data file. Particles are driven by a particle system algorithm that is controlled by real-world attributes such as gravity, direction and dispersion. These attributes can be keyframed by the users within a video editing application to produce specific 3D Particle explosion effects such as transitions and filters on video or graphics.

Method and apparatus for graphically defining a video particle explosion effect

Flexible video editing architecture with software video effect filter components

Method and apparatus for real-time video editing using a graphics processor

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Laval, Canada

Michel St-Pierre