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- From: carr@esl.com (Erik Ramberg)
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- Subject: Re: VideoToaster!!!!!!!!!!!!! ecto
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- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:32:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.173812.3485@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug19.173812.3485@midway.uchicago.edu>, ttak@ellis.uchicago.edu (toki takeuchi) writes:
- >
- > I NEED informationon the VideoToaster! How much can I get it for?
- > Where? Will it work with the Macintosh Quadra 950?
- >
- >
- The VideoToaster for the Mac is pretty stupid. Basically you have an
- Amiga which houses the Toaster and a cable going from your mac to
- the Amiga. The mac runs the software, but all effects are done on the
- Amiga. Yuck!
-
- There are several other options, most of which are very different in
- implementation from the Toaster. One disclaimer though...I haven't
- actually used any of the mentioned systems,
- but rather I am currently investigating which direction I want to take.
-
- One system, called the Video Machine (from FAST Electronics 508-655-3278,
- is like the video toaster, in that it
- does real time video production. This requires that you have at least one
- VCR with a time based corrector, if you want to do animation, and more if
- you want to combine animation and video input. If you only care about
- fades/effects and titles, then the TBC is not as important unless complicated
- edit sequences are performed.
-
- The better route is to get a system that digitizes the input video, stores the
- compressed version on the hard disk, and allows you to later edit, add special
- effects, animations, etc., and then output to tape. This setup requires only one
- VCR but a lot of disk space (~200 MB / hour of raw tape). This route is MUCH more
- flexible than the previous method, and you can import any other mac pictures, QuickTime
- movies, morph clips, etc. that you want. Just have a big hard drive (at least 500+MB).
-
- Their are many systems for doing this, and several of them are very new. Radius has
- the VideoVision board (no hardware compression yet), SuperMac has the DigitalFilm
- board, New Video of Santa Monica has the EyeQue DVI board, Avid has a high end system
- (I don't know how much better than the aforementioned boards), and there are two
- HDTV systems (yes the mac is the first digital HDTV editing system, and in fact several
- full-length boradcast movies have already been produced using the mac system.) but
- I've forgotten who makes those systems.
-
- I'd appreciate any comments from you or anybody else if they have tried any of these
- systems, though they are all brand new.
-
- -Erik
-
- Erik_Ramberg@SMTP.esl.com
-