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From: bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Desktop Video
Message-ID: <2786@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 17:08:02 GMT
References: <8452@zodiac.ADS.COM>
Reply-To: bear@bucsb.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan)
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In article <8452@zodiac.ADS.COM> martin@verity () writes:
> 	1.  What exactly is desktop video?
>
> 	2.  What would I need to set myself up?
>
>	3.  What kind of system would be the best?
> 		I hope I do not set off too many religious wars :-)
>
>					----Martin----
Well, I've been dabbling in it at the hacker level and not on
the professional level.  I have actually used my 1000 to title
and do special-effects for a  home-brew movie.  A genlock is
a necessity if you want to mix video and graphics.  If you
don't have budget, take your pick on this one but I'd wait
for something along the lines of the Video Toaster.  The second
thing you'll probably need is a titler and/or a paint program.
I've founf Dpaint 3 to be excellent.  Pick up some fonts disks
for nifty effects.  Dpaint 3 has very powerful animation which
will make you jump for joy.  I.e. no need for a single frame
video recorder.  I have done a simple seen where a guy on videotape
get's electrocuted.  The animation is about 100 frames of "electricity"
crawling over the guy's body.  Sounds sick, but the movie was a comedy.
A video camera is a good thing to have and well worth the money.
There are a lot of other aspect to desktop video and I have only
scratched the surface.  I'll leave the diggin to the rest
of the Amiga community.

                                                - Bear