CompuServe Messages

I can't give you a comprehensive list of Amiga video products, but I can tell that I've been using an amiga for a feww years in an industrial/educational setting. I think your first step should be a definition of "desktop" video. Does desktop include using a computer (amiga) as a character generator (Pro video Post, BTII)? or as a switcher and effects device (toaster)? or an edit controller plus SEG (amilink+Toaster)? or must it involve non-linear editing, digitization, and storage of video? The amiga seems to function in the video world as a traditional production tool (a CG, a switcher, an edit controller) that has moved to a general computer platform, rather than a dedicated (albeit a microprocessor) piece of video gear. From what I've seen of IBM & Mac "desktop video" advertising, they seem to be suggesting something bigger (complete digitization of video signals in place of tape). If that's true, then you'll have to deliniate between the different functions, and decide what is or is not "desktop" video. <-SJK->