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Amigavideo

    13-Mar-88 12:07:03
Sb: Amigavideo
Fm: David Hazinski 73367,1110
To: LARRY R. HAMILTON 76547,152
Larry, To jump in here, a few thoughts from someone who's just started using the Amiga for video production. I just bought a 2000 and a supergen, and the supergen makes it work. I'm dumping onto U-Matic SP and the passthrough is clean as a whistle with the supergen. A few words of caution from a novice though…these folks make all kinds of inflated claims for this puppy. Read the ads carefully before you buy a product billed as featuring "overscan". They consider "overscan" out of the computer box, NOT off the raster. That's "True Overscan". Also plan on investing a few hundred hours in learning how it all works. Most of the manuals have no indexes, are about thirty pages long and presume an intimate knowledge with computers. You're going to have to learn a bit of computerese to use it as a tool. With the supergen, it's a hell of a titler for the money though, if you can deal with using a limited number of colors. If anyone ever ACTUALLY comes out on the market with a good digitizer and some other toys (all have been promised for awhile) it could be a really good tool. Regards from a fellow Amiga student. David