Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!sdcc6!sdbio2!cleland From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Next machine as animation platform Message-ID: <14202@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 15 Nov 90 07:38:48 GMT References: <85866@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> < > Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Reply-To: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: sdbio2.ucsd.edu In article velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) writes: > >I may be wrong here, but it seems to me that people are producing >"broadcast quality" images with Amiga's outfitted with genlock cards. >There are some relatively expensive supposedly professional systems >available for the Amiga right now. I've seen pictures of stuff created >by the the Amiga that had supposedly been done for KTLA tv station and >others. > You're right. Properly equipped Amigas produce video of broadcast quality, in the case of the Video Toaster it is superior to standard broadcast quality. The gist of the method is that the video is never digitized; all the processing, overlays, digital and video effects, etc., are done in NTSC composite video. Neither the Mac nor the PC have the bandwidth necessary for a Toaster-like board to operate. I suspect that the NeXT does. I was told at a recent Toaster demo that network-affiliated stations were replacing some of their dedicated equipment with Toasters. Thom Cleland tcleland@ucsd.edu