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From: whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: Video Toaster
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.173518.2302@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 91 17:35:18 GMT
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ron@attcan.UUCP (Ron Joma) writes:

>Is there any software about which would be similar in capabilities
>to the Video Toaster but running on TARGA cards.  Any input
>would be appreciated.

The Toaster has very little to do with image manipulation  as you may know
it.  Newtek's Video Toaster is a computer in itself, just borrowing some of
the Amiga's brains.   You can do realtime, live digital F/X like mosaic,
digital zoom, the "transporter" from Star Trek, luma keys, video swaps of
every description - 128 in all.  You have 4 video inputs and  2 digital fram
estores to play with.  And that's just the main menu - You also have a paint
program (Digi-paint - I think it's 24 bit) Lightwave 3D with modeler (a
rendering and animation program) a super-high res. CG program, and my
favorite, a program that can replace any of 96 luminance levels with a
color, so you can make a "chrome" effect, a "nuclear wasteland" look, or
just reverse the video.  It's $1500, and you need an Amiga with 7 Megs of
RAM (I think - That's our system) a video camera, and if you're using a VCR
with it, you'll need a time base corrector.


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