CompuServe Thread

I remember when AAsound was released in early 1990. Everyone said that it was a pretty good product, but sound-boards were pretty new and primitive at that time, as was PC "Multimedia" technology. The company apparently abruptly disappeared in some burst of feuding and the developer of the product posted a number of messages on CIS pledging to continue support of the product, even though he had been cut from the company and the product had been discontinued. About a month or so went by and I never heard from the developer or the product again. This was all in the Spring or Summer of 1990 as I recall. I almost bought the product, but decided the Amiga series of computers were more attractive. I deserted the PC and my Autodesk Animator for the Amiga and have been very pleased with the ease of creating audio- visual animations to dump to high quality video. Only recently have I decided to return to the PC and Animator Pro now that PC multimedia technology is catching up to the Amiga …. not to mention the fact that Commodore Computers doesn't look so healthy these days. Anyway, it looks to me that the ideal way to synch sound to animations is with a product called Q/Media 1.2 (soon to be 2.0) from Q/Media Software in Vancouver, Canada, phone 604-879-1190, for about $100. I don't have it yet, but ordered it yesterday. This looks like the ideal way to go. On the Amiga, I always did my lip-synching in Disney Animation Studio. This software is being discontinued on the PC and it is a rather quirky contraption on the PC, since it still conforms to the Amiga software standards. I saw it at a RadioShack clearance for $29 last week. On the Amiga, it creates animations that are very interchangeable with the other Amiga animation programs. On the PC, unfortunately, the animation files do not mesh well with the Autodesk animation products. I actually love Disney Animation Studio, which is a bargain, when you consider that you can do high-resolution animations with sound synch for dirt cheap. I plan to continue using it for my rough sketches when I finally switch over to the PC within the month. I frankly wish Commodore and the Amiga could rise out of the ashes, because, despite all of the hype, I'm finding the PC to be very unfriendly to NTSC video and audio-visual animations. Just my two cents…..