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Content
Preface ...................................................................................................... 4
Installation ............................................................................................ 6
The Online-Help ................................................................................... 9
The stand-alone version .................................................................... 9
I ts application fields ....................................................................................... 9
Start the program ........................................................................................... 9
The interactive preview ................................................................................................... 9
The list of presets .................................................................................................... 9
The motif effects .................................................................................................. 9
Video A and Video B .................................................................................................... 10
The Import-Formats ............................................................................................. 10
Drag-and-Drop - the multifunctional loading feature ....................................................... 11
An effective result / the export ............................................................................... 12
The stand-alone version in connection with editing software that does
not support any plugin standards - explained through the
example of Videostudio / VideoWave / Studio 400 .................................................................13
Adorage plugin ..................................................................................... 17
The path to Adorage .......................................................................................... 17
Fast or in high detail ................................................................................. 20
Until now for this effect you would have needed ......................................... 21
Details on settings ........................................................................................ 21
The mixer - the source for the transition .......................................................... 23
The coloring of the Contour ............................................................................... 23
Manipulating / scaling the Videomaterial ............................................................ 23
Save your own Effects as Setting .............................................................................. 23
Tips & Tricks .................................................................................................. 24
The preview window contains hidden functions ...................................................................... 24
Creation of a picture-in-picture-effect (PIP) ........................................................ 24
Transforming an existing motifeffect ..................................................................... 25
Adorage Magic Volume 2......................................................................29
Differences to Volume 1.....................................................................................31
Further advantages for registered users...................................................................37
Preface
Congratulations on the purchase of the Adorage Magic for your PC.
With this purchase many new possibilities in the field of digital video effects have
become available to you. Furthermore, you will save a lot of time and money with the
features that are offered by this program, features that, until now, could only be available
by purchasing a multitude of other software usually effordable by professionals only.
Discover the possibilities by playing with the preset effects and enjoy the immediate
preview of their results. Test the presets in the deeper levels and create your own, new
effects. Enjoy the interactive preview and the clear structure of the handling.
While developing this product our most important goal was to offer you a clear and
simple operation.
The Adorage Magic had to be able to offer you a maximum amount of effects by
combining an unusually large amount of cliparts and effect presets. But, do not let
yourself be taken back by the amount of effects. Regulate the effects appropriately
project by project in order to avoid any overloading. An „eye-catcher“ here and a
„wow-impression“ there is often enough and an additional decent alpha-channel
transition in the one or the other spot sure won`t hurt.
We hope that you are successful and that you enjoy the impressive effects.
Sincerely,
proDAD Software
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Installation
- insert the Adorage Magic CD into your CD-Rom drive
- start Windows Explorer.
- double-click onto the drive named AdoMagVol1(double-click when necessary)
- start the installation procedure by double-clicking on setup-eng.exe (english)
- click on „continue“ and agree to the license conditions by clicking onto the actual button
- choose the language you want and click on „continue“
- select the versions you want to install.
„Stand-alone version“ means that this version can be used independently
from any editing software like Adobe Premiere or Ulead Media Studio .
A useful feature in this Adorage version is the im-/export interface for Avi
and (series of)single pictures.
This version is especially interesting for the use of videosoftware without
the possibility for third party plugins (i.e. Videostudio, Videowave, etc.)
All other versions that are offered for selection as far as the editing software
in question is installed on your computer.
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Now follow an overview/listing of the components to install their aim directories.
You can start this installation by clicking on „start install procedure“ or you can make
changes by clicking on „back“. The installer has already checked if there is enough
space left for the components and will now proceed with the installation. If there was
not enough space the installer would have told you giving you the possibility either to
create more space on your harddisk or to change the destination. The installation can
take several minutes due to the comprehensive animations and alphachannels that are
included in the package. You will be rewarded by the uncountable possibilities and
the great quality – if you selected the „big installation“.
After the installation you can start to enjoy working with Adorage Magic.
We will now begin the manual by describing the „stand-alone“-version.
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The Online Help
The comprehensive online help will explain more in detail how to
use all the many other effect settings. In order to begin the online help
you need to click on the question mark in the window‘s titlebar and then
on the element you want to be informed about, for instance the preview
for “Smoke”. A short note appears and a green “i” enables you to request
further information on this topic. Just click on the green “i” and a window
will appear containing the requested information. A click on the button
“Content” will lead you then to the manual in a strucured form, the function
“search” will enable you to search for keywords and the related topics through the
complete manual.Just play with the effect parameters, use the online help and create
new effects by your own.
Customer =
We included several hundreds of these effects already in the package. Further effects
and additional motif animations as well as alphachannels will follow soon. It is
mandatory for you to register yourself, because only registered users will be offered
service like additional products. You can use the free telephone/e-mail hotline just in
case you have a specific question which may not be covered in our online-manual or
if you just want to achieve something particular and you would like our support.
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The stand-alone version
Its application fields
This version is used, as mentioned above, when the present editing software does not
offer any plugin interface or when the Adorage is used for other aims than video, like
for creating effect-animations for Websites or any other presentational use.
In order to learn to understand the basics of this program we would like to start
with this stand-alone (short: SAL) version.
Volume 1 - Classic
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The interactive preview
This preview automatically and immediately
displays for you everything you change or choose,
which is in fact an enormous help while working
with this program, since it is not necessary to start
and then stop the preview after each change. In the
top-left quarter of the picture you can see a list of
presets of effects.
- move the vertical slider of the list all the way up until you see the category „motif
effects“.
In order to simplify the view of the list, please double-click again on the entry
„transition-alpha“ to close this category.
- double-click on the entry „motif effects“ and then on „transitions“.
- again you will have the possibility to choose among different topics.
Let us choose the category „fire“ by double-clicking it, as usual with all categories.
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Now you can select any of the actual effects in this category
- click on „burn up“ (Bonanza). After that or almost in no time at all (depending on
the speed of your computer) the effect is displayed in the preview. Test the
impression of the other effects by clicking on „fire bottom up“ or „explosion III“.
Of course you can also test other entries in other categories. Select now „burn up/
Bonanza“.
- for a test choose a graphic file from your own archive (JPG, TIF or BMP).If the file
is accepted it will be displayed in the file preview.
- by clicking on „Open“ you can load the file.
- by clicking on „OK“ you reach the main level/surface again. By the way : if you
want to load an AVI file or a serie of single pictures you can do it the same way.
Just consider that a series of single pictures always has to be found in its own
directory and that this directory is loaded through the issue „open directory“ and
not „open file“.
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go and at the same time you will see the effect displayed in the preview applied to
your own video-source. By doing this you can drag files from multimedia,
graphic programs and from various video-editing programs very easily into
Adorage Magic.
If you would like to watch the result just start Windows-explorer and double-click the
file „test.avi“ in your C: directory. You have just rendered and displayed your first
effect. This file could now be inserted in most multimedia programs, on homepages
or in video-editing software (i.e. Ulead Videostudio, Premiere, RexEdit, MainActor,...).
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The stand-alone version in connection with editing software that is not
prepared for any plugin standards – explained through the example of
“Videostudio”
3. right mouse-button
= otions menue
2. Import Data
4. Export data
1. Symbol for
file-requester
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9. now drag, while holding down the left mouse-button, the file party_3.avi out of
the filerequester into the Adorage window specififally into the frame
underneath “Video B”
You just provided the videodata. In the plugins for MediaStudio, RexEdit or
Premiere this is done automatically.
10. select an effect form the effectlist of Adorage. For training purposes please
choose something striking.
11. click onto the running preview with the right mousebutton and select “export
sequence”.
12. as path select
“your installpath ...\Ulead Videostudio 3.0\samples\Video\Effekt1.avi”
As export-format please select either your hard- or your softcodec.
For an example select “Cinepak Codec ...”
Please set the following values to this : Frames=100, because the original
scenes A+B take 4 seconds (PAL) (for NTSC projects of course the duration is
different, we prefer therefore to talk in terms of frames)
Width= 320, since this is also the width of the original material, height=240
Confirm with “OK” and wait for the process bar to fill out its frame.
13. in the still open filerequester of VideoStudio you can see the new entry
“effect1.avi”, which can now be integrated at the appropriate posititon of your
video project.
Tips:
a) Before importing scenes into Adorage these scenes are supposed to be prepared.
Please make sure that the files only contain parts that you really want to be influenced
by the effect by splitting them out from the original scenes. Adorage always
combines both scenes and renders the effect from the beginning to the end of the
imported videomaterial.
b) For calculating the right value of “frames” in the export-option please use
this formula: Duration of the imported material in seconds *50 = amount of
frames to be rendered. (PAL) (NTSC=*60)
If you are not quite sure about the actual length of your scenes you can get the
information from VideoStudio at “properties of the clip” ; of course, this clip
has to be active in the timeline/storyboard.
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c) It is best to use the same project-directory for the exported results as the one
you use in Videostudio. By double-clicking onto the Video A preview picture
you can see besides the data-load-symbol also the path of the imported file. This
path can to be copied with (Ctrl + c) into the clipboard and then pasted (Ctrl + v)
later on into the area for “Filename”at “Export sequence”.
In any case you should change the name of the file at the end of the pathname,
otherwise you would overwrite the original file.
The stand-alone version in use with editing software that does not
support plug-ins- examples are „VideoWave“ or „Studio400“
The operation is analogue to the one described in the previous chapter at the
example of „VideoStudio“. On the following page you will find screenshots of the
actual programs. The examples are shown using Volume 1, of course everything is
working, even much more comfortably, with Volume 2 as well.
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Adorage Magic Stand-alone Version runnning side by side with VideoWave
1 Right mouse-button
„Insert files in Library“
right mouse-button
„Export Sequence“
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2 Distribute files as
Video A+B via
Drag & Drop
Adorage Magic Stand-alone Version running side by side with Studio 400
1 Requester for opening files
right mouse-button
„Export Sequence“
3
2 Distribute files as
Video A+B via
Drag & Drop
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Adorage plugin - the others do the work now
The use of Adorage as plugin version is even easier .
If you work with Adobe Premiere, RexEdit or Ulead Media Studio, then you probably
already did create a transitional effect from Video A to Video B. The principle is the
same with Adorage. After having installed Adorage you will find it in your (transition)
effect list of your editing software.
- in case the SAL-version is still running, close it and start the editing software.
- create a timeline project that will enable you to define a transitional effect.
Make sure that Video A and Video B overlap for a certain duration.
Create the transition effect by selecting Adorage out of the transition-list (in Media
Studio it‘s animated symbol) and by dragging it into the appropriate track.
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1
setting the time
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Settings within Premiere
2 Adorage Magic in
List of transitional
Adobe Premiere
effects incl. Adorage
4 start Adorage
Adorage Magic in
Ulead MediaStudio
start Adorage 4
1
List of transitional
effects incl. Adorage
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Adorage Magic in DVRex
Starting Adorage Magic in DVRex happens the same way as starting the effects already
included in DVRex.
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Fast or in high detail
At this time the effect is displayed in the preview
showing only a still picture of each video source. We
have chosen this default setting because some of the
editing software is slow in transfering whole series of
single pictures.
- click with the right mouse button on the main preview window, you will see the
option „render“. Click on „show videos“. The time that is taken to show the effect
in a fluent run is the time that your editing software needs to transfer the videodata
to Adorage. Luckily, this delay will not happen too often since Adorage is able to
temporarily save the data, depending on the memory capacity, so that everything
is speeded up when you experiment around or change effects.
- just browse around by clicking in the list.
- for a test click on „Motif-effects“ (change of category = double-click), then on
„transition“, „home&household“ and for selcting an effect on „shaders“. The result
is a scene-transition which is introduced by shaders.
- simply click on „OK“ and you will find yourself back at your editing software.
- select as the editing range (preview range) the time of 2 seconds (1 second & 40
frames in NTSC) of the effect itself and let the effect be rendered (usually by
pressing the enter button). The time needed is depended upon your editing software,
CPU and memory extension of your computer. Usually the time needed to render
by Adorage is very short and can easily be proved by the SAL-version of Adorage
...
After the rendering you can display the effect as usual and admire it because with this
program you can save the following (and from now on you will):
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Until now for creating this effect you would have needed:
- a software for the creation of 3D Animations that is also able to imply the
alpha-channel technique (shaders 3D)
- a software for the compositing technique (for the clipping technique with
alpha-antialiasing)
- a lot of your time for the creation of the shaders (3D-Modell, animationpath,
motion etc.)
- a lot of your time for the many sample renderings (until the data finally fits
your wishes and can therefore be exported)
- a lot of your time for the rendering of these shaders (even nowadays 3D-animations
are not rendered in just seconds)
- a lot of know-how in the range of 3D-design (the creation of 3D-animations is an
extremely complex application)
What you just used is „merely“ Adorage with merely a few mouse-clicks on the list
and within the effects. You will appreciate this difference from now on.
If this effect did not suit your video signal, please note that it was in fact just a training
example. But with the help of the fast preview and the incredibly vast choice of effects
you should be able to find the effect that is perfect for your video material.
If you went through this example, you are now capable to select effects on your own
and to use Adorage as a plugin. Let‘s now turn to creating your own effects and trying
out new things with Adorage.
Details on settings
The ease of selecting effects and their fast displaying are sure a great convenience of
Adorage. There are no confusing options. It is because of the permanent preview that
experimenting with very abstract parameters turns to be an enjoyment in practicing.
We can base on your knowledge from the example above to get to know the background
levels of operation of this program and by this its additional possibilities.
- start Adorage either as SAL-version or as plugin. The best would be to choose the
version you usually want to work with later on.
- in order to make experiments switch the setting for the rendering option „show
videos“ to off (remember : right mouse-click over preview).
- select an effect from the list as follows :
transitions-alpha/fractal/fractal(standard)/“disperse1out4"
The effect you can see now dissolves the picture somehow „sandy“ beginning from
the middle and ending with dissolving lines. Let‘s now refine this effect.
-double-click on the mixer-picture (the symbol of two celluloid filmrolls)that is on
the greyshaded symbol in the picture frame.
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The mixer - the source for the transition - example from Volume 1
You are now in the level for „effect settings“ !
- move the slider for „Sharpness“ to 90%.
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Manipulating the scaling of the video material
In order to achieve this click on the cardflag of “Video A”.
- choose now the cardflag “endposition” with the green box.
- as you did before, click with the right mousebutton and set the scaling
again on 150 %.
- confirm by clicking on “OK” in order to get back to the main level.
The video material is scaled and the effect that was originally selected ist thoroughly
restyled now – your first effect variation is complete now ! Of course now we would
like to save your variation for later use.
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Tips & tricks
The preview window contains hidden functions:
- click with left mouse-button
= halt the preview
click anew
= one frame step further
click with right mouse-button
= continue running
- click with right mouse-button when preview IS running
= context menu with further items to choose from
Please note the definitions IN, FIXED, OUT, since these will be of importance.
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Now the Adorage :
- start Adorage, the first one, that is the IN-effect
- select from the effect list the following:
- “PIPs” (Picture in picture), subgroup “Border”
- “as blend-in (in)” (!)
- “b05-Video adopted blend”
- confirm with “OK” and return to the timeline of your editing software.
- start the second effect, that is to sy its operator, Adorage.
- select the following from the list:
- “PIPs” (Picture in picture), subgroup “Border”
- “fixed (still)”
- Now select the same effect “b05-video adopted blend”
- confirm with “OK” and return to your timeline.
That‘s it!
Just let the whole thing be rendered by your editing software and then admire what
you have obtained in no time at all.
You will never have to ask your collegues how THEY did something like this, just do
it yourself, simply and in no time with Adorage ...
For later projects just remind yourself to set up 3 operators in the timeline of your
editing software and to distribute the three categories IN, FIXED, OUT.
You don‘t need to care about anything more (graphic import, alphachannel, FADE,
SCALE, Timeline positioning etc.).
Please note: before continuing with this chapter you should have gone through the
examples above, because now comes the tricky part.
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- Start Adorage (as plugin or as Sal version)
- Select from the category “motif effects”, subcategory “airplanes”
the effect “747_start”.
Our goal :
to allow the airplane make a right turn.
- click on the cardflag with the green box for the “endposition”.
- now turn the airplane by dragging the slider for rotation to the right until you
reach the value of 9.
- this value can also be typed directly into
the input area .
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- Size vertical : 130%
- All other values remain at 0%
- click the right mouse-button on the blue box, select “position” and then “center”.
By doing this the airplane is centered at the start.
Now the initial “problem” has been solved. The animation runs flawlessly and in the
intended direction.
- confirm with “OK” and check for an understanding the result in the preview.
The airplane has been perfectly repositioned, but the effect blend is still running as
before. This is usually a feature that enables you to run the animation separately from
the scenic transition. In this case, this feature is not of any help.
But, what would Adorage be if it was not able offer a simple solution for this case?
- click on the button “fast selection” an then select “Position to mixer-mask” and
the whole thing is set correctly now.
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Would you like to create a new tail-effect ?
No problem.
- change from the main surface to the mixer (double-click on preview underneath
“Mixer”) and after having selected “Coloring of the contour” click on the yellow
symbol for the filerequester.
- choose as example “Fantasy01”.
- click on “open” you can see the effect as it is affected only by the mixer but with
the selected new color.
- if you click on the cardflag “smoke” you can also make some changes to the
smoke effect.
- try these new values :
- Rotation impulse = 100
- Smoke intensity = 20
What you see now is the completely changed smoke effect and by clicking on the
cardflag “Overlay” you can also see the smoke direction mix with the motion of the
airplane.
If you click on the button “refresh” the entry in the effect list you just created receives
the changes for the smoke-effect. Another click on “OK” will bring you back to the
main surface.
If you want to see the effect on the main surface split in its single steps, then just
activate the checkbox “preview” to the bottom right. Now you can see the single steps
and the result of this effect, which now and then might be helpful for a better
understanding. The only thing now is to render the effect as usual – and to enjoy it ...
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Adorage Magic Volume 2
– the new features and advantages
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Better overview and better selection possibilities for volume 1 too.
Volume 2 offers a new order of the selectionable list.
All effects of Volume 1 are automatically integrated in this new order so that they
can be found (through the new search mode) more easily and comfortably.
We also changed, as far as possible, all rather cryptical effect names into intelligible
ones.
Volume 1 - Classic
Better compression:
Through a new setup procedure the originally very space-needing files of Volume 1
are newly compressed during the installation of Volume 2.
By this the need for memory capacity of Volume 2 is remarkably reduced.
Optimized effects:
Some effects to be found in the list of Volume 1 were optimized or brought to
perfection by the use of the new funtions in Volume 2.
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Differences to Volume 1:
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- direct display of the reference effect of a group right at the first selection, in order to
improve the comfort and the transparency of each group
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The Mixer
- new function “priming” to avoid unwanted border effects in the alphamask, i.e.
with zoom, rotation or similar in “position”
The Smoke
- new gadget “Preparation” which allows now a statical smoke, that is to say that it
does not need to slowly build up from the mixermask border.
The Overlay
- at “stencil mask” a new function has been added: “use mixer mask”.
Whenever a motif overlay graphic is selected usually this graphic is shown in full.
If now the mixer mask is used then this mask has its effect on the motif-graphic.
The motiv is blended in in synchrony with the changing of the scene. A thoroughly
new kind of effect is possible now: you can have a colorized animation displayed
within the border of the mixermask, that is to say within the space between scene A
and B.
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- The likewise added “Sharpness of the contour” is able to set the border to soft or to
sharp.
- With covering you can also set the intensity of the color or of the transparency.
Tip: Independently form scene changing, with this function you can easily integrate
graphics or animations that base on a black background. For that just set the slider
to 100%. Of course graphics or animations can be layed over the video even with
transparencies. A very easy way to integrate animations, AVI files, sequences or
graphics into editing software like MediaStudio, Premiere and others ...
Positioning function
(in Video-A, Video-B, Mixer, Texture and Overlay)
- new button “Properties” for reducing the border, mirroring and tile number as
well as orientation
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- new rubric “Dynamic” for activating extremely natural motion speed of
- Rotation
- Scaling
- Motion
- Corners
- linear (standard)
- accelerate (2 variations)
- delay (2 variations)
- bounce (as well inverted)
- moult(as well inverted)
- swing (as well inverted)
- new button “timing” to set the time of effect of the dynamic and of the change
between start and end.
Example: between start- and endpoint let‘s say a rotation is running. The closer
start and end are the faster the rotation.
- new button “Settings” to change swing
and suppression of a dynamik.
- new corner grips for a free distortion.
With this e.g. pseudoperspectival pip
effects can be created.
- corner grips for start- and endposition to
create animations
- new context menue (right mouseclick)
over the blue or the green rectangle
- “edit” for a numerical exact positioning
of the corners
- “display” o scale the editing surface for
finer editing
- “dynamic” for a fast inversion of the
active dynamic-properties
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Summing up:
all in all many of the items serve to rise the comfortability or the finesse.
Sure, the most outstanding novelty is the possibility to freely distort the video
sources, the motiv animation or even the mixer mask.
Furthermore the additions in the overlay combined with the mixermask really are a
basis for increasing the number of effect possibilities.
Soft effects with smooth impression or hard edges, Adorage sure offers in Volume
2 possibilites beyond competition for adjusting video, effect, coloring and
transparency.
Each of the more than 1200 effects (only Volume 2) is easily reachable through the
search mode and the preview of the reference effects, the categorisation with more
intlligible names emphasizes this.
Furthermore on our hompage we will offer you new effect packages to expand the
root package of Volume 2.
These are – like in the html demo of the included effects on the CD – displayed in
our homepage so that you can dispose of an absolutely realisitc impression of the
effect possibilities.
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The import of new effect packages in Volume 2 (or higher)
In case you provided yourself with several effect packages you can easily install
them with the included setup. This setup automatically finds Adorage Volume 2
which makes integrating of new effects much easier. The first time you restart
Adorage afterwards you will receive a message of what has been installed.
Of course you can obtain the list of the installed packages their number and their
version number at any time. For that just use the context-menue by clicking with
the right mouse-button on the main preview and confirm the item “Adorage”. At
first you receive some information about Adorage, after that the list of the installed
packages.
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