The Video Toaster Flyer

Technical Specifications

Switcher/Editor

• Editing and sequencing of video clips, audio clips, framestores, CG and effects
• Drag and drop storyboard interface
• Graphic representation of all crouton types (A4000 - 64 color, A2000 - 16 gray)
• Multiple switcher modes:
  • File Management
  • Project editing
  • Switcher view for live production
• Fully automatic A/B roll editing
• Record video with audio or audio-only clips
• Multiple record modes
• Split audio edits (audio lead, audio trail or both)
• Automatic Split-edit function
• Edit to music
• Background audio tracks (2 stereo tracks with optional audio hard drive)
• Line level audio input with gain control
• Play all croutons or play from current position
• SMPTE Time Code Support via Flyer serial port (requires optional time code reader)
• Cut and paste time code values
• Cutting Room Features:
  • Destructively trim audio or video clips
  • Duplicate audio or video clips
  • Extract Flyer stills from video clip
  • Create audio clip from a video clip with audio attached
• Directory tabs (shortcut buttons to video, audio, or framestore locations)
• SCSI tape backup and restore
• Over 100 new Toaster effects
• ARexx macros for creating time lapse and stop motion clips

ToasterCG

• Safe title area display
• Rotate and shear text to any angle
• Scalable PostScript text and brushes
• ARexx macros command support
• New ARexx macros:
  • Spell checker
  • Image scaling
  • Copy/Paste font attributes
  • EPS loader
  • Graphics loader (BMP, JPEG, IFF24, PICT, Targa, TIFF and more)
• Over 30 new PostScript fonts
• New color ToasterFonts
• Redesigned icon interface

ToasterPaint

• New and improved user interface
• Full screen 256,000 color HAM8 display for Amiga 4000 (AGA)
• Full screen 4,096 color HAM6 display for Amiga 2000, 3000 (non-AGA)
• Improved color palette with HSV color wheel
• Airbrush tool
• Stencil tool
• Alpha transparency mode and painting
• PostScript text support including:
  • Size font, shear font, stretch font, rotate font any angle, bold fonts and outline fonts
• Save as Flyer clip
• Load Flyer stills or clips
• Global fill
• Increased magnify mode (4000 only)
• ARexx macros for:
  • Graphics loader/savers (BMP, JPEG, IFF24, PICT, Targa, TIFF and more)
  • Make Flyer stills
  • Make slow motion clips
  • Make fast motion clips
  • Mirror
  • Negative
  • Sepia tone processing
• Improved menu structure
• Full image button
• Flip range for color spreads
• User definable color palette

LightWave 3D

• Ability to load and save Flyer clips
• Surface sample sphere display (HAM, DV1 or Picasso)
• Basic inverse kinematics
• Graphics loader/savers (BMP, JPEG, IFF24, PICT, Targa, TIFF and more)
• "Unaffected by Fog" option for objects
• "Unseen by Rays" option for objects
• Improved shadow mapping and soft filtering
• Anamorphic option for NTSC widescreen or CinemaScope
• Item selection by clicking in Layout view
• Plug-in architecture for animation, textures and image processing
• Plug-in architecture for object, image and animation import/export
• Multiple textures per surface parameter
• New reflection mapping options and control panel
• New lens flare options
• Multiple image format loaders and and savers
• Several new envelope controls

LightWave Modeler

• New plug-in architecture
• Advanced and improved metaforming
• Solid object preview mode
• Automatic standards format between metric and standard in numeric requests
• Numeric functions can be typed directly into numeric requesters

Flyer Technical Specifications

Video:

    Sample Rate:  14.31818 MHz

    Quantizing: 8 bits

    Differential Phase: <2

    Differential gain: <3%

    Chroma Bandwidth:
        1.2 MHz I
        .6 MHz Q

    Luminance Bandwidth: 2.75 Mhz to 6 MHz *

    Video Data Rate: .7 to 8.0 MB/second *

    Signal to Noise:45 to 55 dB *

    (* = Varies with compression mode and picture content)

    Buffer Memory: 8 MBytes

    SCSI Ports: 3 SCSI II


Audio Recorder/Mixer

    Digital DSP: ADSP2115

    Digital Inputs:
        Video disk A left and right
        Video disk B left and right
        Audio disk A left and right
        Audio disk B left and right

    Memory: 64 KBytes

    Clock Rate: 20 MHz

    Inputs:
        Analog, unbalanced
        Left and right RCA jacks

    Input Impedance: 10k Ohms

    Default Input Level: .64 Vrms maximum

    Input Level with Faders at Minimum Position: 2.16 Vrms maximum

    Input Level with Faders at Maximum Position: .2 Vrms maximum

    Outputs:
        Analog, unbalanced
        Left and right RCA jacks

    Nominal Output Impedance: 10k Ohms

    Maximum Output Level: .707 Vrms

    Internal Digital Format:
        16 bit sampling resolution
        44.1 KHz sampling rate
        64x oversampling ratio A/D converter

    Dynamic Range: 66.7 dB - A weighted

    Separation: 66.7 dB - A weighted

    Frequency Response:
        25 Hz to 21 Khz ± 3 dB
        50 Hz to 19.5 KHz ± 1 dB

Top Quality is true D2 quality which is 60 fields per second, full overscan (752 pixels wide by 480 lines high).

Internally the Flyer works with D2 data so there is no D2/Composite transcoding.

The Flyer uses NewTek's Video Toaster Adaptive Statiscal Coding (VTASC). VTASC relies on reducing the quality of the video signal (i.e. dropping from D2 to Beta SP) instead of picture quality, as do JPEG, MPEG and WaveLet. The resulting degradation looks more like noise associated with video, since there is no visible pixelization. Using faster drives, lossles D2 quality can be acheived.

The audio is 8 bit sample at 14.3 MHz using state of the art A/D, D/A converters.

Flyer requires: Amiga 2000 or 4000, Video Toaster Card and Video Toaster System 4.06 software with 9MB of RAM minimum, 100MB free on hard drive. Single SCSI II drive required for LightWave recording. For A/B roll editing two SCSI II drives and one SCSI drive is required. Input from video tapes must be time base corrected. Consult your dealer to configure a system suited to your needs. Some features require an Amiga with the AGA chip set. Specifications subject to change without notice.

PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Amiga is a trademark of Commodore, Inc.
Windows 95 and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
Video Toaster, LightWave 3D, Video Toaster Flyer, Video Toaster Bay, ToasterPaint, ToasterCG and Toaster are trademarks of NewTek, Inc.