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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia..
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In article <1991May16.140513.4946@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:

>The NeXT box (when it is shipping with JPEG functional which I do not think
>is presently the case thanks to C-Cube!) will do something the Amiga will
>probably never do. Edit digital video on disk. There are lots of other
>things a NeXT will do much more easily than an Amiga, like exist cleanly in
>an ethernet university environment. 
>
	I seem to remember being able to do this today, actually.
Requires a digitizer and a program such as ADPro which
manipulates 24 images. JPEG makes the process easier, admittedly,
in that it saves disk-drive room. But there's no reason you can't
do just what you described.

	-- Ethan

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