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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaVision scripts
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Date: 30 Nov 90 14:11:33 GMT
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In article <9786@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rmitchel@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bob Mitchell) writes:
>  And now here's the question...has anyone written anything at all for
>  AmigaVision that is capable of convincing someone that indeed it is
>  more powerful than any other multimedia program.  I would be seriously
>  interested in seeing some of these as the demos from Commodore while
>  helpful in teaching its use, did very little for showing off the Amiga
>  or AmigaVision.

Commodore has put out a wonderful dealer demo for the Amiga which consists 
of a videodisc and an AmigaVision script.  The material on the videodisc is
very nice.  Rapid fire images combined with Amiga graphics and animations.
It is a good example of AmigaVision.  It shows off AV's agility in controlling
the videodisc player, the interaction with the customer, and syncing the Amiga
generated graphics, animations, and audio.  It also shows off multitasking by
allowing the user to select various objects, edit them, define paths for the
objects, and then handing off the information to background processes to churn
out an animation.  AV then plays the anim over a user selected video segment.
The stuff off the videodisc is just really cool to watch.  Commodore must have
gone to a new production house.  It is light years ahead of any of the other
marketing material I have seen for the Amiga.
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