Kinemac: 3D animation made easy
Kinemac is a 3D animation and presentation software for Mac. It allows you to create your own stunning 3D animations and presentations. Creating real time 3D animations can be difficult, but with Kinemac, it couldn’t be simpler. You can also create excellent presentations with Kinemac at a professional level. Kinemac offers an easy to use interface, allowing someone that has no experience to still produce a master piece! If you want to start creating 3D animations or impressive presentations for your business, Kinemac is the application you need! It really does make professional editing simple with its easy to use interface.
When it comes to making real time 3D animation with Kinemac, it couldn’t be easier. It really is a matter of just drag and dropping images, text, and movies onto the Kinemac stage, allowing them to be in your animation. You have a great selection of shapes and texts that you can easily edit by just using the inspector. One of my favorite features of Kinemac is that you are able to drag an image directly on to a side of a shape, to help make a very funky looking animation. Other features that Kinemac has to offer is being able to adjust the font, text, color, size, shadows and embedded images. The features are endless on this great animation software.
Kinemac’s layout is easy to use and simple, along the top you have a series of buttons, such as; allowing you to add shapes, folders, text, light, paths and scripts. Towards the right on the top bar you can change the layout of Kinemac, adjust your text and you have the inspector button. The inspector window is positioned on the right of the stage, as you should know the inspector is the main source of editing what displays on the stage. At the bottom you have the time line, showing you what will appear at what time and when it will end. This is easy and fun to use.
Overall if you are someone who wants to start 3D animation or if you want to make presentations for your business, Kinemac is the application for your mac. Kinemac is currently retailed at $300 but if you take into consideration that this is a professional editing program the price does not seem so scary!
great review!!! got kinemac in macheist…still cant work it!!!lol
Great app! I downloaded the demo and it’s brilliant!! Awesome review!
I looks like a cool app, but it’s expensive.
Tom
Looks pretty cool, I may try it!
I purchased Kinemac and spent hours trying to work with it. It still doesn’t work. I have contacted Kinemac for support. In terms of tech support they are totally lacking. Kinemac, has the sizzle in terms of showing product, but, they don’t stand behind what they sell. In my opinion, Kinemac is the equivalent of the snake oil salesman.
I have a video production company and utilize several software companies in order to get the final product to market. Hands down, Adobe, is superior when it comes to customer service, tech support and training.
I paid for Kinemac, it would be nice to use. I paid for Kinemac it would be nice to get the tech support needed.
Again, my opinion. Not worth the time you will loose to figure out how to use this product through their video tutorials. This product looks cool, but, was useless to me. the end user.
In general, I completely agree with Donna in her last posting here.
On the surface Kinemac looks cool – and in theory I think it is – that’s why I too paid full price for it about two years ago.
However, even simple navigation in the 3D space is awkward to perform – it does not conform to any of the 3D standards in common use for example – and the product has not been updated, not even a little since I first got it. This tells me the developer has probably given up on this product – or has simply lost interest.
There has never been adequate support either.
I gave up on this early in the game for this very reason.
Too bad really – it could be a useful tool, were it not for the developer’s complete lack of interest in his own creation, and his utter disregard for his user-base.
I would have to agree, unfortunately, with the last two posts. After buying the app and installing it (rather draconian copy protection that makes one wonder how fast you could get up and running again if your hard drive died – for instance) I tried to find the manual. I’m resigned to the new reality that nobody prints manuals anymore but something this complex must have a manual and a reference manual, right? WRONG. I contacted them and did get a response but the response was that the ONLY manual is the release notes! The tutorials are OK but they are not a substitute for a reference manual. There is essentially no help system, help sends you to the Web site, and no reference of any sort. So while the app looks really cool and could be very useful with out documentation it is pretty much a waste of disk space.
Instead I have to say that Kinemac works well on my machine. Never got a single problem. Of course you have to be a little bit skilled in 3D because even if it is pretty easy to use, this is not an application for everybody. Last, I posed a couple of questions to the support team and they replied on the same day with the solutions. They even explained me how to deal with SVG on Illustrator (!), which is not really their matter. So, for me it’s all right here.