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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Next machine as animation platform
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Date: 15 Nov 90 14:45:52 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.013438.4075@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> topix@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (R. Munroe) writes:
>In article <velasco.658597478@beowulf> 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.
>
>I've been doing computer animation for a number of years (on Silicon Graphics
>workstations running NeoVisuals and Wavefront).  I've *never* seen broadcast
>quality animation come off an Amiga.

Then you have obviously not seen the Video Toaster for the Amiga.
This brand new peripheral is a dual 24bit frame buffer, frame grabber,
digital video effects generator, seven input switcher, 35ns character
generater, paintbox, and 3D animation system. It DOES produce
broadcast quality output and when you consider that the board
including all the software is under $1600, it is utterly amazing!  It
has been reviewed in a number of the professional video mags and the
reviewers were astonished to find that unlike most computer-based
video products these days, it does produce broadcast quality output.
It is certainly not as fast as an SGI machine, but at about 1/30 the
hardware/software price, I will wait the extra couple minutes per
rendered frame. If you would like more info, email me.
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|  mark@westford.ccur.com                                                  |
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