This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Hank wrote: Prime Image makes a box called the PassPort 4000 which provides the Video Toaster and, therefore, the Flyer with PAL input and output. This has opened up the PAL market for Newtek. But what about the Quality? AFAIK the toaster can only work in NTSC which forces these…
Rafael wrote: Would you mind to post an aproximated price for that? Is it "broadcast" quality? While the price is also interesting for me (though I will never consider to buy a toaster), we should stop to use the term "broadcast quality". There is no real definition of this term…
Paul wrote: I guess it all boils down to a matter of opinion, but some things in MS are very inconvenient, imo. In a film cutting room, if you're well organized, you always have your trims right at hand. In MS, you don't. I'd hope for at least the flexibility…
Paul wrote: I haven't actually tested it yet, but I believe that any deck that supports both a linear audio track and the regular striped hi-fi tracks will work with this. Sound on the hi-fi track, LTC on the linear one, and the linear one feeding the Ad516's time code…
Juan wrote: The latests version of Octamed (V6.0) supports the Toccata… But Octamed is no harddisk-recording software but a tracker. Therefore no substitute for Samplitude which is unfortunately the one nad only HD recording Software for Toccata at the moment.
Bryan wrote: Rendering time seems to be the biggest downfall for the VLAB-M system. Can you preview a rough idea of what the transition looks like? No. You can only render some single frames to control if the timeline is arranged in the right manner. Bryan wrote: Can you not…
John wrote: Stock Toasters are CVBS only :^( But its Good CVBS :^) There are S-Video I/O boards for the Toaster but its still Composite through the Toaster. Which sense does it make to waste money for an I/O board that doesn't do anything than a normal video deck (all…
John wrote: PS Have you senn any A1200 on the shelves from AT/Escom ???? We will get our ordered A1200 this week (as reported by A-Tech).
John wrote: Aren't there a few features that can only be used if your running OS 3.0+ ? Generally Yes, but I cannot remember any features in Movieshop that dont't work under 2.1. John wrote: I'm currently running on WB 2.1 :^( My A3000 runs also under 2.1 and Movieshop2.6…
Bryan wrote: Why is it worth the money? I was told that the only difference was the internet capablities it has. Have is been misinformed? I haven't seen any internet capabilities in OS3.1. Compared to OS3.0 there are some internal optimizations like faster graphics routines. The support of the older…
I wrote: >>But if You are use Toccata as an Audio Harddisk recording system, Toccata can perform Fades without rendering. And can also play more than two tracks and mixing them together while playing.
I wrote: >>V-Lab Motion is intended to be a consumer product. Therefore it is not designed for a profesional editor.
I wrote: >>But it doesn't take a long time, especially compared to the time for rendering video fades.
You can make aliases with the shell command "makelink". There's also a little freely distributable programm called WBLink to make links in a much more easier way. But unlike under Mac OS or OS/2 there is no official way to do Links across drives. You can make such links and…
John wrote: The Vlab-Ms s/w Movieshop is starting to progress in ways that will only work on WB 3.xx systems I think. Of coarse theres work arounds for early OS revs. Movieshop works fine with WB2.1. But upgrading to 3.1 is worth the money. regards, Dirk Taggesell
John wrote: First I send a single channel of SVHS video into a Personal TBC, then feed a composite signal from TBC to the Toasters Input 1. Does this mean that the Toaster has NO Y/C-Connectors? Now I know, why Newtek hasn't made any PAL-Toaster. They couldn't sell one piece…
Chis wrote: You mean…THREE Vlab-M boards?? Or do you mean 3 hard drives connected to one board? If it's 3 boards then I can see why it's difficult. John Bennett explained a really strange kind of editiing. And he gives away the advantage of Y/C when going into the toaster…
Paul wrote: The Tocatta can play back mono or stereo at different sampling rates, but anything else requires rendering–including FADES! Also, it cannot play back more than 2 tracks (if stereo) at once, so even experiments with transitions have to be rendered. For the use with Movieshop this is true.…
Paul wrote: However, the interface was obviously designed by people who really don't know what editors need. Don't get me wrong–it's not unusable, and it's better than the Flyer (for control) but it still is awful imo. V-Lab Motion is intended to be a consumer product. Therefore it is not…
Chris wrote: If I understand this correctly: assuming I was mixing 10 music videos with fades/effects inbetween, I would first record each video to VLM (order doesn't matter) without mixing them, program VLM the order the videos will be played, and finally tell VLM which effects I want inbetween the…
Paul wrote: The Tocatta has to render everything, just like the Vlab/M, EVEN FADES, which is totally ridiculous. I've taken to not dealing with mixing at all on the Vlab, and dumping my cut video with sound to my deck to a tape striped with time code and then using…
Chris wrote: When you talk effects, are you talking 'Switcher Effects', Chromo FX, or both? Can you give some examples or an idea of how much cleaner and spetacular those effects are vs. the Toaster. — I've never seen a toaster with my own eyes because of Newtek's ignorance to…
Chris wrote: How many drives can you hook up to VLAB-M? If possible, I'd like to have a 2gig drive hooked up to Input 2 and another on Input 3 of my Toaster, and finally have another 2 gig hooked to the Toaster Output. Is this setup possible? — VLM…
> I'm just curious of how the quality, sound, and broadcast look of VLAB-M > compares with the Flyer. How does VLAB projects look when you're done? > Do they look like they can be broadcasted on TV? About how many minutes > of video can you put on a…
> Do you live in Germany or somewhere in Europe? Yes, I live in Germany (Munich) > I'm also very happy with my VLab-M sys :^) The GUI took a while to get the > hang of but now its become pretty natural for me. I'm not a Pro, just…
> I'm just curious of how the quality, sound, and broadcast look of VLAB-M > compares with the Flyer. How does VLAB projects look when you're done? > Do they look like they can be broadcasted on TV? About how many minutes > of video can you put on a…
> Do you live in Germany or somewhere in Europe? Yes, I live in Germany (Munich) > I'm also very happy with my VLab-M sys :^) The GUI took a while to get the > hang of but now its become pretty natural for me. I'm not a Pro, just…
> I'm gradually setting up a VLAB system myself and I,ve recently acquired > the toccatta 16 bit sound card and the documentation is dreadful. Is > there any other tutorial or reference available, and is the manual for > VLAB just as vague? I assume You are writing about…
Lattie wrote: Do you do video recording with the program, on PAL or NTSC? What are the "limits" you refer to? Less than 50 f/s? LS Ofcause can You record the Animations created or processed with clariSSA to video if You have a Genlock (or at least a CVBS-Output). And…
#converting Fonts for LW
Message #119767
Hi Folks! So I got this Fresh Fonts CD's and found a few nice fonts which I would use for Lightwave3.5 on my Amiga. The manual claims that LW uses the adobe font format and the fonts on the cd are also stored in adobe postscript format. But every font…
Lattie wrote: Has anyone used the UK animation converter "Clarissa?" It's with the new CU Amiga mag. They don't give much instruction w/it. It's supposed to use make animations smoother and faster with a trick using the interlace mode. The instruction mention that 50 f/s can be achieved. Is this…
This GeoForge sounds great. Must have it 🙂 An other Question: As I can read here that VistaPro will be further developed in the Amiga Version, is there a german dealer who sells upgrades? (Amiga Oberland?) And will new Versions of Vista Pro behave correctly under all useful screenmodes and…