Videomaker FrameForge Review

Terry O'Rourke

So you need software that has everything already in place just waiting for you to take advantage of. That would be something like FrameForge 3D Studio, $399. Sounds pretty impressive doesn't it? That's because it is.

It has just about everything you could want in a package and it's easy to integrate into your current workflow. With an extensive library of rendered objects and a friendly user interface, you can plan each and every sequence with accuracy and confidence. The application renders every frame with your particular camera and situation in mind, thereby eliminating any chance of providing you with a view that is not possible to achieve.

You can build room-sets populated with realistic actors and props in this application with speed and accuracy, integrate those sets into a multiple camera "virtual studio" and manipulate lighting, camera angles and actor placement, and even change their facial expressions.

Once you are satisfied with the storyboard, the application can provide you with a printout of accurate renderings and even make separate prints of camera angles and lighting positions. What a time saver! Software like this can also include sunlight, window lighting and terrain in your printouts, you just show up on location with a note of where you need to place the gear.