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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!jbono
- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Amiga v. Mac (multimedia/video-editing)
- References: <oivindi.1@dhhalden.no>
- Message-ID: <jbono.032p@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 00:17:46 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 76
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- In article <oivindi.1@dhhalden.no>, oivindi@dhhalden.no (OIVIND IDSO) writes:
- >Heeeelllloooo.
- >
- >I am thinking of getting into video editing the computer-way, and I have
- >read a lot about QuickTime for the Mac.
- >
- >However, I know the Amiga is quite a powerful multimedia machine, too, but
- >I'm not sure how it rates against QuickTime.
- >
- >So could someone on the Amiga-side please answer me on the following:
- >
- >1. Does the Amiga have programs like Adobe Premiere or DiVA Videoshop, that
- > allows editing and sequencing of recorded videoclips (that is MOVING
- > video!) and sound?
- >
- >2. If yes, what are the names of these programs?
- >
- >3. What video-recording cards are available today? And how many frames pr.
- > second do they record?
- >
- >4. How good is the quality of the recorded movies (subjective question)?
- >
- >5. How fast are the programs (screen updating, playback etc.)?
- >
- >6. Which machine is required (as a minimum)?
- >
- >I would also appreciate any additional comments on whatever I need to know
- >regarding the Amiga and moving video (I know it's hard, but try to be
- >objective when comparing the Amiga v. Mac!).
- >
- >
- >Oivind (oivindi@sofus.dhhalden.no)
- >
- >*****************************************************************
- >* * Disclaimer: These are the opinions *
- >* "Potatoe" - Dan Quayle * of me, myself and I. *
- >* * Ergo, not my employer. *
- >*****************************************************************
- >Oivind (oivindi@sofus.dhhalden.no)
- >
- >*****************************************************************
- >* * Disclaimer: These are the opinions *
- >* "Potatoe" - Dan Quayle * of me, myself and I. *
- >* * Ergo, not my employer. *
- >*****************************************************************
- >
- > T H I S S I G N A T U R E I S N O T V E R Y
- > O R I G I N A L !
- First question is do you plan to send the completed video to tape? If you do,
- then Quicktime is completely out of the question. The resolution and framerate
- are poor on anything except a Quadra, and on a Quadra, it is tolerable(not
- fast, but the framing isn't *real* noticeable).
-
- The Amiga doesn't have an Equivalent to quicktime in that the audio is part of
- the same file with the sound, however, a package like Amigavision(which comes
- free with any Amiga with 1M or more) can assemble audio and video together
- easily enough. As far as recording video is concerned, the *only* platform
- that can even *claim* to do a good job of recording video is DVI. Having seen
- quicktime digitizers and Amiga frame grabbers, the only platform I have seen
- record video on the fly is a DVI card(at least record realtime). However,
- DVI's typically *require* a 600M disk and a 486 with 8 or 12M of ram. The best
- solution is a frame grabber with a frame accurate videotape. That way you can
- record a series of frames from tape, save them as individual files, and
- reassemble them as a completed anim. As far as animation speed is concerned,
- an Amiga is the *fastest* platform available--period, end of sentence. An
- Amiga 500 will *easily*, and I do mean *easily* keep up and outrun a Mac IIfx
- at animation, depending on the animation being run, and the amount of being
- played alongside the anim(the more sound, the faster the Amiga appears in
- comparison, since sound does not use the cpu). To put this in perspective, an
- Amiga 500 is a 7.16mhz 68000 chip(which is 16 bit), and the FX is a 40mhz 68030
- chip(a 32 bit chip). As a display unit, the 500 is good enough, provided you
- give it enough ram. To do authoring, an A3000(or if you wait, an A4000) is
- preferable. If you plan to render to videotape, the best system to use is the
- Amiga, even if you don't use the toaster.
-
- John
-