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#Video Toaster substitut?

    13-Aug-94 15:53:37
Sb: #Video Toaster substitut?
Fm: Carlton Newton 72066,642
To: All
One of the rigs we use is an Amiga 2000 with a New Tek Video toaster. We mostly use it for a switcher and character generater. 3DS rel.3 has replaced Lightwave for us, but frankly I find deck to deck editing just fine for our purposes (we're real low tech, no time time code, almost exclusively VHS output, but we do have SVHS and Hi-8 decks and cameras) I might be able to find some "obsolesence" funds to replace it. And this would be an opportunity to get a PAR (or maybe a MAX). Can any body suggest the boards (Including the PAR) that I might use in an Intel box set up that would let me accomplish: -Frame by frame video capture for later out put as video or flics -gererate titles The toaster is a great board and I dont expect to replace all of its functions, but I'd really like to have a PAR or MAX onto which I could transfer animated output from our Amigas, Macs, and Intel PC's. I was thinking a 90 MHz pentium, PCI bus, 32 Megs RAM, video board???, NTSC capture board???, Max or PAR. Any help would be appreciated, my goal here is to duplicate the Amigas's NewTech Character Generator (not necessarily do equivalent switching or try and do full non-linerar editing), get a PAR or MAX so I can see what 24bit animation really looks like, (and have another box to network with 3DS (big g).