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- From: king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland)
- Subject: Re: av & scala mm
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.055446.5286@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: VisionSell Multimedia
- References: <boba.33yz@terapin.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:20:25 GMT
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- >....I dont have scala mm. Amiga vision plays my anims back way too
- >slow. Now, My question: Does the new amigavision give you control over frame
- >speed when playing back anims? I am sure that scala mm probably does.
-
- Scala does.
-
- >But what audio capabilities are available through scala mm.
-
- Pretty reasonable if you have fairly static presentations you can
- spend time synching to a sequence of single songs (CDTV, sampled sounds,
- noisetracker/protracker mods). With presentations that
- need continuous music backing you can run into some strife. eg. inserting
- a slide into the sequence or changing any slide timings will cause the
- music track to finish at a different position. In practice, I have
- found using one of the good players from Fish through the SCALA mm
- CLI or Arexx ports works pretty well. (refer my FIX/WISH list on another
- thread for more details).
-
- >Will either of
- >these programs now read anims straight from hd instead of having to load it
- >into memory?????????? I would like to upgrade from my current situation to a
- >more versitile mm program. Any feedback please! bob
-
- Scala mm has a neat utility which converts standard Anim files to
- a format that has the dual function of indexing them to make
- them readable directly off a HD and/or converting standard ILBM's (eg. DPaint)
- to 16 or 32 bit chunks for improved run-time performance (in some cases
- though, this has doubled the size of the Anim file). You can specify
- whether you want to run the anim in memory or HD when you slot it in. It
- seems to work well.
-
- And there's another great thing - the significance of which is not
- really detailed anywhere. You can easily setup a standard SCALA slide overlay
- to appear dynamically on the anim on the first or last slide. This means
- you can create a generic anim library, and easily vary them with overlays
- (eg. logo or text) depending on the presentation context. This is worth
- its weight in gold - think about it.
-
- ---
-
- If you want the quickest and friendliest authoring interface around,
- with power presentation capability, go for Scala mm.
-
- If you want flexible interactive screens with programming flexibility,
- inbuilt database, or properly callable modules, go for Amiga Vision
- (but I've only seen the specs for the new Pro, this relates just to
- a comparison version, 1.7).
-
- If you want the best of all worlds, mix and match them together!!!!
- You can get AV Pro+Scala mm+CanDo combined with change from $1000,
- still under the price of even decent single authoring programs in
- the Mac or PeeCee world!!
-
- Jest me own opinyon of course, for the little its worth.
-
- Regards.
-