• Completely rewritten - over 18months development
• New User Interface
• Integral Quicktime facilities
• Autotrace from Bitmap to Vector
• New drawing tools including bitmap editing tools
• Context sensitive Help

Etchelon TRACER provides a useful tool for development for animated movies using Apple's QuickTime format. It uses Vector graphic and Bitmap graphic morphing to rapidly develop animation for multimedia applications or presentation. Special effects and animation can also be applied to existing QuickTime movies. Etchelon TRACER will morph from any key frame to any other key frame to provide animation, morphing or special effects.  

New Features in Version 4 - November 2001

• Complete Re-design
• - New user interface - everything re-designed
• - Tabbed Palette
• - New pen tool
• - New selection tools
• - All subsidary windows changed and made simplier to use.
• Quicktime integration
• - Quicktime Movie as background
• - Output to Quicktime
• - Integral Quicktime player
• New Help facility
• - Context sensitive
• - Integral graphics and animated GIFs (produced by Etchelon Tracer)
• New sequencing and control
• - Better control for slide shows (go back to last "slide")
• - Improved time control
• - "Match" facility to improve animation
• Bitmap tools
• - Bitmap text (any font or style)
• - Paint brushes
• - Perspective distortion
• - Bitmap filters (Grayscale, invert, Despeckle, Posterize, Contrast, Threshold, Outline)
• - Autotrace (Bitmap Image to Vector)
• Functionality streamlined and simplified from Tracer 3
• - File management: all tracer data now saved into single file. 

New Features in Version 4.2 - March 2002

• New: Text positioning - specify exact X,Y position of both bitmap and vector text
• Under-the-hood changes - preparation for MacOS X

Etchelon Tracer is full featured shareware ($27 registration) and is not saved disabled but is partly output disabled until registration and time limited.

Regsiter Etchelon TRACER using credit card on-line via kagi here

Etchelon TRACER 4 will only be available only for the Apple Macintosh - it will run on any PPC Macintosh and requires MacOS 8.1 or later (MacOS 8.5 or later preferred) To replay Quicktime movies, Quicktime extensions are required.

Download Etchelon Tracer 4.2 here (approx 1Mb)