Many of your project call for more than just simple video capture and/or encoding. We have been receiving multiple emails with questions like:

• I'm developing a video security/surveillance application. How do you do motion recognition with @ctiVideo?
• How to get access to the video data while capturing?
• I need to put an overlay image in each frame. How?
• Can I adjust the brightens and contrast of the video feed programmatically?
• Can I create a black-and-white, sepia or strobe effect?

Now you can! The latest addition to our @ctiVideo line of ActiveX controls is @ctiVideoFX - a combination of OCX control and ActiveX COM component for audio and video buffer manipulation. This control acts as a "see-through" filter, that can be inserted between the video source (@ctiVideo) and the output filters, allowing access and manipulation of the raw audio and video data. The control has a set of powerful analytical tools that can raise events or perform actions based on changes in the video data. This makes event driven video programming easy and CPU effective.

@ctiVideoFX provides filters for brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, b/w, overlay, color planes manipulation, flip, mirror, crop, smooth, sharpen, emboss and pixel-by-pixel analysis. It also raises events based on the value of single pixel or group of pixels, as well as image differential.

You should look at @ctiVideoFX if you need to:

• Apply changes to the captured video stream on-the-fly;
• Have direct access to the raw video data while it's being captured/encoded;
• Trigger events based on the contents of your video stream;
• Create static or dynamic overlays;

Using these components you dramatically reduce the development cycle and the time-to-market of your multimedia application. You can re-use any of the sample code, available in our extensive samples library (click here to browse it) and virtually have your application running in several hours, as opposed to weeks or even months, if you decide to build the same functionality from scratch.

• Click here to browse the @ctiVideoFX 1.0 on-line documentation.

• @ctiVideoFX Test GUI (VB6)

• Click here to browse the FAQ database.

0.9 [Alpha] July 5, 2002

• Internal alpha test;
• Scheduled for release in Q4 2002;