Transcription: Speech-to-textAquaSoft Stages

Video editing often has to do with the spoken word. Now you can edit or visualize speech on "sight". A powerful AI recognizes the spoken or sung text of your videos and sounds and converts it into readable text with matching time stamps.

• Display text directly in the Timeline at the appropriate times
• Video and audio editing after visible text possible
• Support for many languages
• Transcription runs locally on your PC without the cloud
• Transcription via CPU or GPU (Cuda-capable) in the background while you continue working on the project
• block-accurate and word-accurate timing
• Animation of the spoken words
• manual editing of the text possible
• Words can be moved in time directly in the timeline
• optional: automatic translation of the transcription into English

Texts for videos and sounds

Captions can be entered directly in videos and sounds. Videos and sounds can now do everything on the text side that individual images and the free text object can do.

The additional support of several text tracks means that text can be used as an editing aid independently of the final output.

• Text input possible for videos and sounds incl. timing, animation, etc. as well as in pure text objects
• Add several text tracks and make one of them visible (e.g. receive raw transcription and final subtitles at the same time).from Video Vision

Text backgrounds

Texts can now have a background themselves. It starts with a simple colored area and ends with complex shapes around each letter for active words in the video subtitle.

• Background automatically adapts to the visible text or fills the specified area in different variants.
• Text background in various shapes (rectangle, circle, ellipse)
• Backgrounds can be used for text animations, e.g. to emphasize the current word.
• Design options: Rounded corners, edge distance, contour and much more

Video formats

full integration of the new AV1 video format and even better support for many video formats thanks to updated video decoders and encoders

• Video output also possible in AV1 (MP4, MKV, WebM in 8 and 10 bit)from Video Vision
• optional hardware acceleration for AV1 when encoding and decoding with NVIDIA GPUs (from Ada Lovelace chip)
• improved handling of proxy videosfrom Video Vision
• Video output with NVIDIA hardware acceleration now supports "Constant Quality" mode.

Images

Images can now also be integrated in WebP and AVIF format.

• Support for WebP and AVIF image formats
• For greater clarity, text frames only appear in the layout designer and marks in manual input after the first letter has been entered.

flexible simple shapes

Designs and effects are often made up of simple shapes. Rectangles, triangles and circles have become much more powerful as basic building blocks.

• colored contours (inside, outside, middle, freely adjustable)
• Rectangle with rounded corners (optionally adjustable separately for each corner)
• Triangle with rounded shape possible
• Shapes reversible (filling outside the shape)
• better antialiasing
• Parameters can be animatedAquaSoft Stages
• additional blend modes (multiplication, subtraction, ...)

Color correction effect

To quickly make a few color corrections, even on videos, or even influence the entire project, the new color correction effect is here. It combines several correction methods with simple sliders.

• Brightness
• Contrast
• Black point / white point
• Gamma correction
• Color correction in RGB and HSV color model

new light and shadow effectsfrom Video Vision

The Shadow and Light leaks overlay effects add atmosphere to the scene. Shadows animate subtle shadow patterns and light leaks simulate light shining into the lens.

• Light Leaks with adjustable colors, strength and speed and much more
• Shadow overlay with 37 integrated shadow shapes (window grids, plants, etc.), adjustable soft focus, animation speed and much more

Effects with improvements

• LUT effect: with new function "Amplify LUT"
• Layer effects: new blend mode "Screen", as well as new modes only show content or effect
• Animated noise: three additional pattern algorithms and 4 new blend modes

New mask effect "Static mask"

Apply a mask to videos and photos with just one click. Conveniently change the mask image from a gallery or choose your own.

• New object "Static mask" for videos and photos
• Easy application by dragging and dropping from the toolbox onto a video or image
• Over 100 new masks (usable in the new mask effect or image effects)

Modern design

The user interface has become much more modern.

• A total of 8 different designs available - four in elegant blue tone and four neutral gray designs
• User interface completely redesigned for more clarity and better readability due to adjusted contrasts
• Use of modern fonts

Integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and OpenFX plugin

If you use other programs for video editing, you can now create animations with AquaSoft Vision and directly include them in other applications - without waiting, conversion or quality loss. For example, you can create a title animation or lower third in Vision and use it with transparency and in high quality in other applications. If you modify your Vision project, the changes will be immediately visible in the other program.

Use Vision projects within Adobe Premiere Pro

• Including transparencies
• High precision (up to 32 bit color depth per channel)
• Custom import resolution
• Sound is also imported

OpenFX plug-in for programs like DaVinci Resolve, Vegas, Natron etc.

• Vision projects can be integrated directly into the third-party program via plug-in.
• Filter function: Vision can accept an input image from a third-party program and use and modify it as desired in the timeline using the "External contents" object - even multiple times.

Optimized timeline

Crisp display in each of the three timeline styles Distinct colors in the timeline ensure good distinction of the elements Improved drag and drop from toolbox and file browser

New extension packages available

Version 13 extends its capabilities which are used by the three new extension packages:

• 3D elements
• Particle Magic
• Audio+

3D - your photos in a new dimension

Mit Photo Vision, Video Vision und Stages 2024 gelangen Ihre Animationen in eine neue Ebene. You can arrange and animate photos, videos and graphics in all three dimensions.

• Create parallax effects that add a sense of wonder and excitement to your presentation.from Video Vision
• The new effect "3D cube" can show 6 photos simultaneously and animate them as a rotating cube.
• Create a virtual photo wall with the new "3D strip" effect.
• "3D scene" object with real 3D editor enables the animation of photos, videos and texts in space, including correct depth sorting and transparencies.AquaSoft Stages

Movements as smooth as butter with Motion Blur

Razor sharp or naturally smooth - decide whether animations and camera pans appear with motion blur or hyper-realistic. No more moiré effects on zooms and pans across detailed or complex shapes.from Video Vision

• Export entire projects with motion blur
• Moiré effects during zooms are a thing of the past
• Even when panning, individual images or videos blend into each other so smoothly that the viewer's eye can fully engage with the actual content.
• You determine the strength of the Motion Blur yourself.
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Adjust and change colors -
for photos and videos

Camera model or lighting conditions are different, skin tones look unnatural, a cinematic look is missing? Color grading can change the color tones of a photo or video. This creates a completely new visual impression.

• Easily apply color effects to a single or multiple objects at once via live effect.
• 15 ready-made styles are included.
• Load other color tables into the LUT effect (images, cube files, ICC profiles)from Video Vision
• Create your own variants with the integrated editorAquaSoft Stages

Layout effect -
fits together perfectly

Bring your images and videos together in the new layout effect. Create dynamic galleries and collages with fixed or automatically created arrangements, where images can also swap places.

• Multiple photos or even videos combine to form one unified impression.
• Layouts can be nested within each other as desired.
• Directed or random arrangement
• Determine margins, internal spacing, rows, columns and animation
• The automatic image swap function is an eye-catcher!
• Aspect ratio for the contained elements selectively or automatically adjustable

More color and image effects

In version 13, you will find many new image effects in the Toolbox as well as a new dynamic rectangle shape that allows you to design countless color backgrounds and Lower thirds yourself.

• 61 new image effects in the Toolbox (51 color gradients, 2 frames, 7 masks and one color)
• New Dynamic shape "Color gradient" with any number of colors in the gradient shapes Linear, Bi-Linear, Spiral and Circle
• Own image effect can be applied and edited to tile graphics in the Live effect "Texture tiles".from Video Vision
• Save image including applied effects from Image editorfrom Video Vision
• BitmapFX effect "Color gradient" with any number of colors, in different shapes: Linear, Bi-Linear, Spiral, Circlefrom Video Vision

More export options

Get the most out of your project: still images, collages, teasers and individual video parts from long shows.

• Single frame export at the Playhead position by right-clicking
• Partial export of individual project sections by entering the time in the Video Wizard
• Export WebM videos and image sequences with transparencyAquaSoft Stages
• Video generation from Playhead positionAquaSoft Stages
• Video generation between split PlayheadAquaSoft Stages