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amiga.special/press.releases #178, from jdow, Thu Sep 24 03:22:35 1992
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TITLE: Digital Micronics announces "EditMaster" a digital video editing
       system for the Amiga

    Digital Micronics Inc. adds to its' professional multi-media product line
for the Commodore Amiga with "EditMaster".  DMI's exciting new system is a
video production and editing suite for use by video production houses,
professional videographers,  and video enthusiasts.  DMI's suggested list
price for the complete EditMaster system  is $1,995.

    DMI's EditMaster system allows users to record from their video camera or
VCR directly to the hard disk drive in their Commodore Amiga.  The heart of
DMI's new system is its' video compression board which digitizes,  compresses
and stores video segments onto the hard drive in real time.  The video
segments can then be edited,  modified  and play back to tape.  DMI's Digital
VideoEditor allows instant access to any number of video segments stored on
the hard drive,  giving complete creative freedom and flexibility to the
editor.  Making the final master of the production is as simple as hooking up
a VCR or Laser disk player and pressing record.

    The EditMaster system is a Computer Animators dream come true.  Typical
animation frames can be compressed and stored to the hard drive on a
fame-by-frame basis.  The animation can  then be  played back in real time,
directly to tape,  without the need of an expensive frame-by-frame recorder.
Video clips and computer animations can be combined very easily to produce a
final production.

    The EditMaster system works in full screen,  real time NTSC (30 fps) or
PAL (25 fps),  broadcast quality resolutions.  The video hardware compression
board allows video to be compressed and decompressed to and from the hard
drive in real time at 30 or 25 frames per second.  Full motion video
compression and decompression ratios are user selectable,  the ratios vary
from between 2:1 to 50:1.  Input the video segments from any standard NTSC or
PAL format video device.  Edit on a NTSC or PAL television monitor or an
ordinary RGB monitor which supports 15 kHz.   Output and record the final
edited version to any standard NTSC or PAL format video device.

CONTACT:Dean TuckerDigital Micronics Inc.
Director of Marketing2075 Corte del Nogal, Ste. N
Phone(619) 931-8554Carlsbad, CA  92009
Fax(619) 931-8516U.S.A.

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"The Vivid 24 ushers in a new era of affordable and extremely powerful
graphics boards for  personal computers.  This type of image manipulation and
3D graphics power was previously  available only on very expensive and very
high end engineering graphics workstations."  said Dean Tucker, Director of
Marketing for Digital Micronics, Inc.

DMI's Vivid 24 in a Commodore Amiga A3000 provides 160 MFLOPS of graphics
processing power.  A Silicon Graphics Indigo Elan provides 4.2 MFLOPS and a
top of the line Silicon Graphics 4D/480 VGX provides 70 MFLOPS.

Digital Micronics, Inc. develops and markets super high resolution graphics
co-processor boards for the Commodore Amiga and the Apple Macintosh based
around the Texas Instruments TMS340 chip family.  Other high-end DMI product
offerings include digital video workstations for multimedia applications based
around JPEG technology.  DMI was founded in January of 1988 as a  manufacturer
of low cost Apollo memory expansion boards.

CONTACT:Dean TuckerDigital Micronics Inc.
Director of Marketing2075 Corte del Nogal, Ste. N
Phone(619) 931-8554Carlsbad, CA  92009
Fax(619) 931-8516U.S.A.