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Videology, Inc 72-6 Newtown Rd, Suite 210 Danbury, CT 06810 (203) 270-9000 VIDEO TOASTER/FLYER SPECIFICATIONS – DECEMBER 21, 1994 Software Specifications: Switcher/Editor Simultaneous playback of two video streams with instantaneous rewind, fast-forwardand pre-roll Editing and sequencing of video clips, framestores and effects Clips (as croutons on the edit screen) placed next to one another on the storyboard will perform a cut True A/B roll is acheived by placing a transition between the clips Clips whose sequence produce an A/B roll situation will have the B clip's overlapping frames moved to the other harddrive without user input, producing a full two video stream input to the Toaster Switcher Any sequence made up of video clips, framestores, CG pages, and Toaster transitions may be viewed immediately as no rendering is required Since most of the effects requiring realtime video compression cause the Switcher to produce a video image with pixelized images, the Feral Effect board is available for realtime, non-pixelized compression. For effects not available with the Toaster Switcher, or to replace effects that cause pixelization, the effects may be rendered from the Flyer clips, through the use of LightWave, producing clean, broadcast quality transitions, limited only by the user's imagination Special effects/transitions may be created by the inexperienced user by using Hollywood F/X, selecting one of the many packaged effects, telling the program what features you want, and it will render it for you. A newer version, available by February '95, will allow the user to create the effect. Insert editing (overlaying a longer clip with audio with a shorter video clip) is possible Visual framestore representations (thumbnails) New file management capabilities built into the editor Fully automatic A/B roll editing Multiple video quality modes Play forward from any point Disk to disk high speed direct copy Over 100 new effects in Version 4.0 Using stereo RCA connectors, unbalanced stereo audio input and output can be recorded simultaneously with the video Two background stereo audio tracks may be added with a separate disk installed on the third SCSI interface Independent audio level control on all tracks Independent In and out audio points may be set creating a "split edit" with overlaping audio Stereo audio can be played from two video clips simultaneously, with independent volume level and face controls. All four stereo tracks (eight channels) are mixed down to final stereo output using the Flyer's on board DSP chip ToasterCG Ability to rotate, resize and shear text Unlimited CG pages stored independently Extensive ARexx controllability Improved brush preview operation Spell Checker ToasterPaint: (Amiga 4000 systems only) All-new interface Full-screen, full-color paint on the A4000 High-Performance airbrush Stencil Alpha Channel Alpha Channel painting New color editing with HSV color wheel PostScript text support including rotate, resize and shear New ARexx macro interface User definable palette Global flood fill LightWave LightWave output to Flyer Basic inverse kinematics "Unaffected by fog" option for objects "Unseen by Rays" option for objects Improved shadow mapping and soft filtering Anamorphic option for NTSC widescreen or CinemaScope Item selection by clicking in LightWave view Modeler Enhanced control of Bones Multi-level undo and redo Features Not Yet in .9 SMPTE recording Sequencing of CG overlays, scrolls and crawls New ToasterPaint for Amiga 2000 systems ChromaFX croutons Archive utilities Cutting Room: Bulk digitizing, audio stripping, stripping of still-stores, segmenting of long video clips Hardware Specifications Flyer Technical Specifications Video Signal Tolerances Differential Phase: <2 Differential Gain: <3% Chroma Bandwidth: Maximum available (NTSC standard) Compression Data Rate Data Rate Luminace Signal to Mode Peak Variance Bandwidth Noise Ratio Top Quality <8.0MB/sec 1.4-8MB/s >6.00 MHz @ -3dB 56 dB High Quality <3.7MB/sec 1.4-3.7MB/s >4.20 MHz @ -3dB >50 dB Low Quality <3.7MB/Sec 0.7-3.7MB/s >2.75 MHz @ -3dB >50 dB Note: Add 1.76K/sec(0.176MB/sec) for stereo audio recorded with video. Top Quality is true D2 quality which is 60 fields per second, full overscan (752 pixels wide by 480 lines high) Internally the Flyer works with D2 data so there is no D2/Composite transcoding The Flyer uses Newtek's Video Toaster Adaptive Statiscal Coding (VTASC). VTASC relies on reducing the quality of the video signal (i.e. dropping from D2 to Beta SP) instead of picture quality, as do JPEG, MPEG and WaveLet. The resulting degradation looks more like noise associated with video, since there is no visible pixelization. Using the faster, 9GB drives, lossless D2 quality can be acheived. The audio is 8 bit sample at 14.3 MHz using state of the art A/D, D/A converters Flyer Hard Drives IBM 3.5"x1.6" 2GB 70G8493 Seagate 3.5"x1.6" 4GB ST1515ON Seagate 5.25"x3.2" 9GB ST41080ON Hank/Videology – Where you get all the P.O.M.P. under all Circumstances