Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!epicb!jerry From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: VIDEO magazine article... Message-ID: <471@epicb.com> Date: 17 Oct 90 05:57:50 GMT References: Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN Lines: 26 In article dg49+@andrew.cmu.edu (David A. Gillespie) writes: >The third article, called "Ultimedia" is a comparitively short (compared >to the other two) article about the AVID/1 Media Composer. This system >was originally based on the Mac IIx. It talks about how amazing it is >because it can capture material at 30 frames per second (ooooohhh...). >The only price they mention is the cost of the video board for the >Macintosh -- $3000. And it takes 30 Megs of memory to store 1 minute of >video! Oh, well. Guess I won't be putting those old movies into THIS I just saw a demo of the AVID/1 this morning. It is a very nice system and will be well worth the $70K or so for people who need to do video editing. AVID does not make any hardware. What really makes the system shine is AVID's software. The software is well done and complete. The biggest factor limiting the performance of the system is the Mac's NuBus. I might go so far as to say that someone could make a better system based on the Amiga for about 1/2 the price. I might say that if AVID weren't using our NuVista boards for their display boards. :-) >system... ;-) -- Jerry Thompson | // checks ___________ | "I'm into S&M, "What I want to know is, have | \\ // and | | | | Sarcasm and you ever seen Claude Rains?" | \X/ balances /_\ | /_\ | Mass Sarcasm."