#Video Machine
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The Best New Product Award of Spring Comdex went to Fast Electronic of
Munich for the Video Machine. This thing, as best as I can figure out, is
basically a Video Toaster board for the PC, only with 24 bit effects, built
in dual frame buffers, digital keyer, and twin tbcs. It supports PAL and
NTSC with 100 video effects, etc. It looked really interesting. They also
had a video compression board which they claimed will do the equivalent of
Intel's off-line dvi, realtime. On top of that, there was also a 4 channel
digital audio board that would give you control over sound editing with the
video board. The price for the Video Machine was quoted to be in the $4000
range.
Roger D.
Roger,
Got a U.S. phone number for Fast Electronic ???? Will they have a
booth at the NAB conferance this coming week ?????????
Bruce Goren
Bruce,
First a correction. They won the best new products award at Windows World,
not Comdex. Sorry. Their distributed in the U.S. by Omni Q Inc., P.O.
Box L, #8 12th St., Blaine, WA 98230, FAX (206)354-0526, Tel
(206)354-7734. Here are preliminary specs:
Video Inputs: *Input system: PAL, NTSC, SECAM *Input types: composite
(VHS, Video8) S-Video/YC (S-VHS, Hi8) optionally: YUV (betacam)RGB *Input
channels: two *Input switchers: two/one per channel per switcher 2
S-Video/YC or composite- 1 Composite * A/D conversion: PAL/SECAM 29.5
MHz/2x oversampling 768*576 square pixels 25 frames/sce NTSC 24.5 MHz/2x
oversampling 640*480 square pixels 30 frames/sec. *Input gamma
correction: fully programmable * Timebase correction: two TBCs/one per
input channel Digital keyers: *No. of keyers: two/one per input channel *
Keying types: chroma keyer (BlueBox/ColourBox), luminance keyer *Keying
effects: live video on graphics, invertible live video on live video
Digital effect modules: *No. of modules: two/one per input channel *
Effect types: zoom, shrink, size, position, move, flip, crop, mosaic,
posterize, solarize, alphawipes *Processing: supersmooth in field sync by
onboard hardware effects independently per channel, effects on live video
and stills Digital frame stores: *No. of frame stores: two/one per input
channel *Type: 24 bit RGB true colour with alpha channel
QuickDraw/QuickTime compatible (Mac version) Windows GDI compatible (PC
version) Digital fader/mixer: *Fading/mixing types: channel A & B level
Channel A &B live video with alpha channel A & B graphics with alpha
programmable look-up table *Resolution: 256 digitally adjustable fading
levels per channel
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Video Output: *Output system: PAL, NTSC *Output types: composite (VHS,
Video8) S-Video/YC (S-VHS, Hi8) Optionally: YUV (Betacam) RGB *Output
gamma correction: fully programmable *Genlock: fully genlockable output
software-adjustable H-phase and colour subcarrier phase *Genlock sources:
input channel 1 input channel 2 external sync Audio mixer: *Inputs:
four channel stereo *Control: volume, bass, treble, fading *Output: one
channel stereo System requirements: *PC: 386 compatible with 16 bit AT-Bus
slot, 4 MB memory, 256 colour BGA, VGA colour monitor, Windows 3.1
*Macintosh: Macintosh II or Quadra with NuBus slot, 8 MB memory, colour
monitor, System 7 –or so they claim <g>.
Roger D.
Wow, I got a headache trying to read that!<g>. BTW are you British, or from
the Commonwealth? The reason I say that is you spelt "Colour" correctly,
like I do. (I'm English living in So. Cal.)
No, Martin, although I do have some British relatives, via Sweden, back
when the Stewarts got asked to leave the country. The spelling was
according to their brochure, and they're German. I figured if I was going
to put all that in one message, I should probably keep it as short as
possible. There was a whole lot of interest in that board at the show.
They were doing some really interesting transitions with live video to a
Madonna video.
Roger D.