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#Amigas on TV!

    31-Dec-86 00:10:53
Sb: #Amigas on TV!
Fm: Mike Berro 73267,3361
To: Alex Schneider 71340,27
Just about every scene used an Amiga. The big screen stuff was a Betacam video tape playback (various sources) into an Amiga with Live!, and then fed into a second Amiga with genlock to do the data character overlay. The RGB was fed into a GE video projector. I'm sure you recognized the windows on some of the computer closeups. The green screen text closeups were an Apple II. Apparently a Gould 9080 (whatever that is) generated the wire-frame brain. In the first fifteen seconds there is a brief shot of a technician with two B7W monitors in the background, and those monitors are flickering like mad. That occurs when the monitors are not locked to the film camera, but I don't know how that happened (hey, they could have hired me if they had wanted too.) Otherwise I didn't notice the stationary bar either. They did a very good job. No Amiga credit at the end. I shall have to talk to someone about that. —Mike