What is [Crimson FX]?

Crimson FX is an effect generator for Quicktime movies and DV streams designed to make adding laser and light blade effects (and possibly other effects) as easy as possible.

I decided to write Crimson FX after reading a posting on BoingBoing about how to create rotoscoped Light Saber effects. Unfortunately, it required quite a chunk of expensive and complicated software to do it. I figured not everybody who would want to make their own home-rolled laser and light saber effects would have access to those fine programs, so I sat down and hacked this out. Fortunately, I was able to re-use a lot of code I'd written over the course of a couple of years. It took me just a few days to get a working copy. Then I got busy with work and life and forgot about it.

The source code is available pretty much without restriction; Feel free to use it, modify it, remix it, whatever! If you do something cool with it, I'd love to see what you've created!

 

Download [Crimson FX] for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.2 up to Mac OS 10.3

Compatibility notes

NOTE: Quicktime 7 broke Crimson FX's ability to render movies and I haven't had time to get in and fix it yet, so if you've upgraded to Tiger or Quicktime 7, you probably want to hold off on downloading. 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU