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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AudioVisual Presentation
Keywords: CanDo, DeluxeVideo, Video Titlers
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Date: 6 Mar 90 21:25:59 GMT
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Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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I need to make a technically oriented, audiovisual presentation which
will eventually be put on VCR tape. I need to do some animation
sequences including both video and sound to lay some explanatory
groundwork & move into running some interactive software I have written
for the main part of the presentation. Please understand that I have
never done this sort of thing, am starting from ground zero, and am a
bit confused. The live presentation will be done with my 2500/
flickerFixer/ Nec3D & I will probaly just videotape the display using a
camera (unless I can find a genlock to borrow).

I am ready to buy the software needed for the animation sequences
(DPaintIII will be used to draw the animation frames, & have a sampler
& AudioMasterII).  I have narrowed the choice of animation software to
DeluxeVideo (latest) or CanDo. Unfortunately, I can't find a decent
description of CanDo or a decent comparision of it with DeluxeVideo(latest).

Interestingly, I read terse descriptions of CanDo doing everything but
buttering my toast in the morning, but no real description of it's
capabilities.

Question: Would someone with a knowledge of both packages please
enlighten me as to the relative merits of each? I would be very grateful.

Also, how about titling software? This is only an internal company
presentation & thus doesn't need to be broadcast quality :^), but should
I be looking at titling software, and if so, what is reasonable?

Thanks,
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Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
        Motto : "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"
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