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From 1994 until 2002, Pablo Media was involved in a wide range of
software development projects. Listed below, these projects ran the gamut from media-creation
applications to game software to QuickTime components and visual effects plugins.
Prismo Graphics: Wrote India
Special Effects Titler, a new professional titling application for the digital
video and film markets, featuring animated fonts, texturization, scripted special
effects, lighting effects, real-time preview, movie and image compositing, and stock
video (Macintosh and Windows 9x & NT & 2000). On June 20,
2002, Apple acquired India from Prismo Graphics. Led by Dave Howell, Apple used the acquired
technologies to enhance its Final Cut Studio suite of professional applications.
AVerMedia: Wrote all software for USB Presenter and iMaxEdit
devices, including USB class drivers, System Extension, a Control Panel, a Control
Strip module, QuickTime video output components, a QuickTime video digitizer component,
a QuickTime transfer codec, a QuickTime movie-editing application, hardware test
utilities, and more (Macintosh).
PicoStar: Wrote video digitizer and codec components for a family of USB
video capture devices and cameras (Macintosh).
Videonics: Added support for After Effects plugins and Bezier curve editing
to Effetto Pronto
video-compositing application (Macintosh).
VideoBrush (a Sarnoff Corporation
spinoff): Developed VideoBrush Panorama for Macintosh application, for building
QuickTime VR movies or still images from QuickTime movies, using Sarnoff's mosaic-processing
library (Macintosh).
Network 23: Developed prototype QuickTime codec and video digitizer components
for Iomega Buz, a PCI JPEG compression
card based on the Zoran chipset (Macintosh and Windows 95).
RAD Game Tools: Ported SmackPlay Director Xtra, for playing back Smacker movies (Macintosh).
Azeena Technologies: Fixed bugs and added new features in drivers for AV500,
a PCI Motion-JPEG card (Windows 95).
Animagic: Developed Capt&Comp mTropolis modifiers for video capture
and image compositing (Macintosh).
Stomp: Developed Composite Director Xtra for CD-labeling product,
with QuickTime 3.0 image import and multibyte text rendered on a curve (Macintosh,
Windows 95 & 3.1).
Xaos Tools: Ported Terrazzo and Paint Alchemy Photoshop plug-ins
to PowerPC (Macintosh).
DigiEffects: Ported Aged
Film Premiere plug-in (Windows 95 & NT).
Burnett Group Europe: Developed NiceText Director Xtra, for rendering
antialiased fonts with diffuse drop shadows (Macintosh and Windows 95).
Realtime Associates: Ported Young Blood, an animated networked roll-playing
game (Macintosh).
Zombie: Ported Locus, a 3-D science fiction sports game (Sony PlayStation).
Westwood Studios: Ported Legends of Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge
animated role-playing game, on contract to Dreamers Guild (Macintosh).
Hasbro Interactive: Ported Candy Land Adventure game, on contract
to Realtime Associates (Macintosh).
Hasbro Interactive: Assisted with port of Tonka Contruction Site game,
on contract to Vortex (Macintosh).
Kara Computer Graphics: Designed and developed Kara Fonts PostScript
titling utility (Macintosh).
Serena Medical Electronics: Wrote EKG Monitor utility, for viewing live
data from veterinary EKG box (Macintosh).
Sonus: Designed and developed D-50 Design MIDI patch editor (Macintosh).
New Video: Led software development team for EyeQ AV codec board. Wrote
QuickTime software, including various hardware codecs, VDIG, and other components,
utilities, and applications (Macintosh).
Intel: Ported Indeo 1.0 QuickTime video compressor component (Macintosh).
HSC Software (now MetaCreations):
Developed KPT QuickShow utility (Macintosh).
HSC Software (now MetaCreations):
Designed platform-independent graphics library.
Passport Designs: Designed Passport Producer multimedia authoring
environment.
Passport Designs: Designed and developed Master Tracks Pro 4 MIDI
sequencer (Macintosh).
Passport Designs: Ported Master Tracks MIDI sequencer (Apple IIGS).
Digitalk (now part of Cincom):
Fixed bugs and prepared upgrade to Smalltalk/V Mac development environment
and Smalltalk/V Mac Goodies class library (Macintosh).
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