#IBM DTV?
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I realize this is an Amiga forum, but can find no appropriate IBM forum to ask
this question.
What products are available for doing video editing on IBM? I already have a
486 so it seems it might be less expensive to add to that than to buy an Amiga?
Is it possible to use two home VCR's hooked up to said IBM?
Or, can you suggest a better place to ask this?
Amigas are pretty cheap. What is it that you are trying to do?
-Jonathan
// Amiga online via Autopilot. MAC Quadra 900 and
\\// 486 emulation. E-Mail: jonathanb@delrina.com
<<What is it that you are trying to do?>>
Simple editing of video tape. I don't know at this point whether I want to work
with VHS tape or some higher level. Fact is I'm extremely ignorant re video in
general.
If you just want to edit video tape, you don't need a computer AT ALL. I
would just get a couple of semi-pro edit decks and start hacking at tape.
-Jonathan
// Amiga online via Autopilot. MAC Quadra 900 and
\\// 486 emulation. E-Mail: jonathanb@delrina.com
Douglas,
There is a package called "editizer" which runs under Windows. The company
responsible is TAO 1-800-264-1121.
Frank
Frank,
Thanks for the info. I'll give them a call & check it out.
Douglas
You should check out an issue of "Desktop Video World".
It covers all of the popular platforms (Amiga, MAC, PC, SGI).
Joe Maulucci >>> Accadia Electronic Arts
Buffalo, New York
Thanks a lot for the suggestion Joe. You wouldn't know where to call to
subscribe, would you?
I'm not Joe but i can help you.
The magazine Desktop video world doesnt exists any more…
In another way it has changed name as of June 1994 issue to
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Thanks Geir. I just found a copy of the May issue locally. Pretty interesting,
may subscribe.
Doug,
There's a DTV section in the Consumer Electronics Forum (GO CEFORUM, I
think.)
Lou Wallace, Editor in Chief of DTV World, is usually around there
somewhere.
Kent Lidke
Helo Pilot on AutoPilot
Thanks for the tip.
Douglas,
if you simply want to get your feet wet with a home-quality system, you
couldn't go wrong with Video Director by Gold Disk. For less than $150, you get
editing software, plus two cables to connect to your source and record decks.
One cable is infrared, the other is, ummm… Control-S, I believe. Video
Director will interface with a wide variety of home VCRs and camcorders. Gold
Disk can be reached at (416) 602-4001.
Blaq!
It does basic editing, tis true. But it doesn't allow titling, animations or
AREXX.. No reason it couldn't 'cept the software is limited.. (I bought it and
now I don't use it 'cuse what's good is an editing controller that doesn't
allow you to use AMIGA's built in video stuff!) It is cheap though.
-Tom-
Thanks for the suggestion.
Get in touch with VLan Manufacturers (Video Media) at 1-800-YES-VLAN or
contact them at CIS PPN 73532,2024. They have lots of solutions for a
variety of decks. Then there are comanies like Fast, Strassner and Tao
Editizer. Pick up a copy of April's Desktop Video WOrld magazine for a
discussion of 20 non-linear editors (then you need only one deck). As with
anything else in the PC world, Choices abound at all levels. Start
checing more video oriented magazines, – AVVideo, Videographer, New
Media…
wmc – via Autopilot!
Douglas:
I'm running a program called D/Vision made by TouchVision Systems on a 486.
D/Vision Pro does professional offline ELD's and very very acceptable high-end
prosumer/ industrial-quality professional finish-to-tape output.
This is a non-linear editing system costing about $4k plus the cost of an IBM
ActionMedia II card ($2k?). They have a less expsensive product called
Cineworks that does just the direct output to tape for about a grand. This
includes Flying Fonts and the ability to import/export stills, bring in PCX or
TGA files, and assemble sequentially numbered PCX or TGA files into animations
without the need for a single frame animation. Very robust for the price. The
AMII card is still required.
I've had my system for about 9 months and love it. It's very easy to learn and
use. Type Go DVISION to get to their section of the Ultimedia Tools B Forum on
CIS. Touchvision's tech support monitors the forum. At one time, they mailed
out a "demo" disk presentation of the system, control panels, etc.
— John
John,
Thanks for the info.
Douglas