#Jennison Speaks
10-Jul-94 10:48:43
Sb: #Jennison Speaks
Fm: Joe lasen 72703,45
To: RAD Moose @ NewTek, Inc. 76004,3350
At the L.A. Toaster User Group, LeeStranahan introduced the smartest
toaster guy, Tim Jennison, who is the most sincere and brilliant speaker I
have heard in some time. Seems they were all in town shooting the followup
to the Revolution and stopped by our lil' ole Usergroup of 300 plus to
answer a few questions and demo Lightwave 3.5 which will ship this week in
two forms, with and without toasters. Briefly Jennison stated:
1: Blame Ali for the demise of Commodore. Absolutely a dolt.
2: Two camps…Samsung and a group with James Dionne are in the running.
He favors James as being his favorite.
3: The Trustees have stipulated the Amiga must go back in production.
4: Egglebert and remaining engineers are ready to do production support
for the victor and all realize that time is of the essence.
5. Hundreds of Amigas reamain stock both in Europe and Canada.
6. Toasters are selling at about the same rate as they were last year.
7. Flyers will use prehaps 2-3 specified hard drives. Seagate, Micropolis
and others have delivered stacks to Newtek to be tested. He mentioned that
differences between same models exist within Rom firmware. Beware.
8. 9 gig HD should be available soon for $3000. 9gig=1hour.
9. Smpte Timecode will be inbedded in croutons for reference.
10.Somebody is making a logging system where you put in a tape, mark the
spots you want to edit, and the system loads the stuff to the hard drive.
11. Flyer is smart. If you have a cut between two clipson one drive, the
Flyer can handle the cut. If it is a dissolve, the Flyer copies the clip
to the other drive automagicly.
12. Sound is handeled with an under-utilized DSP chip like Studio 16.
Sound is inbedded at 44.1 for now with no EQ or effects YET.
13. No EDL. This is an ONLINE SYSTEM.
14. "Busy Guy" Croutons make Lightwave Animwipes automagicly.
15. Composite out is here to stay…for now.
Had to leave(shucks) before the Lightwave demo by Lee. I am a soundman at
a local amphitheatre and the show must go on. Looks like the Amiga and
Toaster/Flyer will too.
Joe Clasen
Joe's DB&G