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What People Are Saying About Echo Fire
 
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More Than Just Previews
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If you're working with 16:9 anamorphic footage, you're probably tired of looking at the "squished" images on your computer monitor. Echo Fire can not only display your work on your video monitor, but it can also adjust the aspect ratio for proper display of 16:9 images, both cropped and letterboxed. It also supports the 14:9 format favored by many producers.
Echo Fire does more than just preview your projects on a video monitor. It can also overlay test and diagnostic information on your preview, including a waveform monitor, vectorscope, safe action and title areas, and a variety of color bar test patterns. Evaluate your video signal, verify title placement, and calibrate your monitor, all with Echo Fire.
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Drag and Drop Export to FireWire
Once you have a project rendered to DV, getting it out the FireWire connection can be a challenge. Echo Fire provides a drag-and-drop application, Drop Play, that you can drop one or more movies onto and have them stream out the FireWire. What could be simpler?
Video Color Picker
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Echo Fire's Video Color Picker previews your color choice on your video monitor, showing you exactly what the color will look like. It also displays waveform and vectorscope displays to let you see just what color you're specifying. And the Color Picker lets you know if you've chosen an "illegal" color and will "legalize" it at the touch of a button.
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The Video Color Picker is available in Photoshop in OS X, and system-wide under OS 9. (Mac OS X no longer supports system-wide custom color pickers.)
Pricing and Availability
Echo Fire 2.1 for Macintosh is currently shipping, and can be ordered directly from Synthetic Aperture, or through one of our resellers.
 The list price for Echo Fire is US $275. Because it's less work for us, orders placed through our secure on-line ordering system for electronic delivery are eligible for a $20 discount, reducing your price to US $255 and eliminating shipping charges.
Of course, we're also happy to accept electronic, email, telephone, or fax orders for physical delivery of Echo Fire on CD-ROM.
We accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover/Novus, and American Express. Purchase orders are accepted only from accredited educational institutions.
Upgrades From Prior Versions
Registered users of Echo Fire 2.0 can update for free by downloading the Echo Fire 2.1 installer and using their current serial number. Registered users of Echo Fire 1.0 or 1.1 can upgrade to 2.1 on-line for US $49. A CD-ROM upgrade is available for $69.
Contact sales@synthetic-ap.com with questions regarding upgrades.
Free Demo - Try Before You Buy
Download a copy of Echo Fire and try it on your system. The demonstration version is fully functional, but will time out 72 hours after you first use it.
Once you decide to purchase Echo Fire, use our secure on-line ordering system to purchase a serial number which will fully enable the software you've downloaded. Order for web delivery and your serial number will automatically be emailed to you.
System Requirements
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 Power-PC based Macintosh
Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x, or Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
QuickTime 4.1.2 or later
Video output device such as Apple's built-in FireWire, Digital Voodoo D1 Desktop, Media 100, Pinnacle Systems CineWave or Targa 1000/2000, or Aurora Igniter or Fuse. (Not all hardware is supported under all OS's--check with the hardware manufacturer.)
For Mac OS 9.x: Adobe After Effects 4.0 or later, and/or Adobe Photoshop 5.0 or later. For Mac OS X: Adobe After Effects 5.5 or later, and/or Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or later. (Some features of Echo Fire 2.1 require After Effects 5.0 or later.)
FireWire users will need a camcorder, VTR, or similar device to convert FireWire to video.
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