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From: dogar@motcid.UUCP (Haroon H. Dogar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Toaster shipped  (Video Questions)
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Date: 26 Sep 90 16:28:29 GMT
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jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:



>Found this in comp.graphics:
>|From: straz@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Steve Strassmann)
>|Newsgroups: comp.graphics
>|Subject: NewTek Video Toaster has shipped
>|>
>|For those of you who've been waiting for a while, the NewTek Video
>|Toaster officially shipped to customers last Friday at 8pm.
>|
>|(Note: this is an add-on board (plus software) for the Amiga which
>|gives you broadcast-quality multichannel video mixing, editing,
>|switching, plus frame store/grab, character generator, plus a 3D
>|modeler, renderer, and animation software that does texture mapping,
>|shadows, and scads of other stuff all for $1600.)
>|

Is anyone out there using the Amiga for producing broadcast quality video?
If so, what is the usual media accepted for broadcast?
What is the cheapest equipment (camera, recorder/player, sound) that can
be used for BROADCAST QUALITY productions?
If these are two different formats (cheapest one, and the one accepted by
broadcasters) then can the cheaper format be inepensively converted (transfered)?
Also, does anyone know about that show that they have every year where they try
and sell shows to stations (when, where, costs, registration procedures)??

I am assuming that I will be spending about:
~ $4000 on an Amiga 3000
~ $1600 on the toaster 
~ $???? on additional software to make up for toaster defficiencies

Approximately how much more would I need to spend to achieve the cheapest
broadcast quality audio/video studio (minus the studio)?

If there are any low-budget independents out there, could you e-mail me any
miscellaneous tips (on any subject dealing with video production).

>|Disclaimer: I don't work for NewTek, I just go to their parties.
>|
>|Steve Strassmann
>|MIT Media Lab
>|straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu
>--
>J. Eric Townsend -- University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120
>Internet: jet@uh.edu
>Bitnet: jet@UHOU
>Skate UNIX(r)



Thanks for any and all help.
(Please pardon my naivete--I'm a Jamaati)
-hd