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The best multimedia authoring software for the Amiga just got better! Introducing the next generation multimedia presentation software: SCALA MULTIMEDIA MM300 Check out these new features: Drawing Tools – Create and manipulate lines, rectangles and circles! Each drawing can be moved and resized. Add different attributes like color, wipe, outline, shadow, etc. Resize Brushes and Pictures – Scale, crop, change-aspect-ratio of backgrounds and brushes! Load Resolution – Change resolutions and number of colors on the fly! Fast Floyd-Steinberg Dithering – Pictures and brushes can now be remapped quickly with the Floyd-Steinberg dithering technique. Images will look smoother and cleaner than ever before! Optimize Palette – This time saving feature automatically calculates and remaps the color palette for each background, brush and text color! File Format Support – The Scala EX system now loads GIF, TIF, PCX and BMP file formats from other computer platforms! You can even save IFF pictures into the Microsoft Windows BMP format! Absolute Timing – New SMPTE compatibility feature allows you to set frame rates for PAL (25 fps), NTSC (Drop-Frame and Non Drop- Frame), and Film (24 fps). Scala scripts can be slaved to Time-Code chase with the new MIDI 2.0 EX and any Amiga compatible MIDI-to- SMPTE device (eg. Blue Ribbon Soundworks Triple-Play Plus) File Requester Shuffler – Now you can see a "thumbnail" picture of backgrounds, the first frame of an animation, and brushes! Stunning New Wipes – FadeToWhite, Nuclear, Random, Dissolve, Ants, Rollodex, Flipover, and Cccut are a few of the new wipes in MM300. Plus many of the new and old page wipes are now text wipes! Most wipes can now change directions using the "Turn90" and "Backwards" options in the Page Wipe Menu, creating hundreds of new wipes! Sound On Buttons – You can now add two globally set sounds to buttons for feedback on interactive applications. DSS Sound Module Support – MM300 will now playback music modules created with GVP's Digital Sound Studio package that comes with the GVP DSS 8+ Audio Sampler! Take advantage of the DSS8+ enhanced features using Scala's built-in sampler editing features! "Automagic" Creation of Buttons – Click on a screen object like a brush and MM300 will automatically create the button border surrounding the object! New Backgrounds – Nine new backgrounds have been added to the standard Scala package. Additional Scala Background Libraries can be purchased seperately. Save Script in a Drawer – this time saving function now copies all brushes, backgrounds, sounds, fonts, etc. to a drawer for easy transferring! New Text/Button Attributes – Underline color can be independent of text, an improved 3D Attribute function, and an all new Beveling Attribute function which creates 3D, four-sided buttons with ease! Text Box for Subtitling – Allows you to create Text Box Headers with a different color and transparency. Great for video subtitling! Sound Playback Directly from Hard Disk – Any size sound sample (mono or stereo) is now spooled directly from hard disk, saving precious Amiga Chip RAM. Preview 24-Bit Pictures – A fast IFF 24-bit preview allows you to browse through your 16 million color images and then load them into any ECS or AGA screen mode! Enhanced Scala Utility Support – The utility launcher now start other Amiga programs that modify scripts, pictures, animations and sound files! Enhanced AnimLab – Now has Anim8W and Anim8L support, new Scala animation formats Anim16i and Anim32i, animation support for FLIC (a common animation format on MS-DOS PCs), change resolutions of animations and pictures, enhanced palette control, add text to animations, much more! New EX Modules – Scala MM300 now includes these improved EX modules: MIDI 2.0 EX – Enhanced to support Blue Ribbon Soundworks' One Stop Music Shop and Triple Play Plus. The EX also reads MIDI Time-Code from MIDI to SMPTE devices like Dr. T's Phantom. CDTV 2.0 EX – Enhanced features now include the ability to play multiple tracks, use time-code for in and out points, wait for specific locations, fade volume in and out. New Genlock EX Modules – MM300 now includes EX modules for GVP G-Lock, Digital Creations SuperGen and G2 Systems G2 Genlock (PAL) GVP IV-24 EX – Control the picture-in-picture, keying modes, and display 24-bit IFF pictures. AVideo/Colormaster 24 EX – (For A500, A2000, A3000 only) Display 12 or 24-bit backgrounds with overlayed Scala graphics, playback of 12-bit animations in the avnm/avnmd format. System Requirements: For A500, A600, A2000 and A3000; Scala MultiMedia MM300 requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher, at least 1 MB of Chip RAM, at least 2 MB of Fast RAM, Hard Disk, ECS Chipset recommended (ECS Agnus and ECS Denise). Accelerator and additional Fast RAM also recommended. For A1200, A4000 and other AGA based Amigas; Scala MultiMedia MM300 requires AmigaDOS 3.0 or higher, 2 MB of Chip RAM, at least 2 MB of Fast RAM, Hard Disk, additional 32-bit Fast RAM recommended. NOTE: For Amiga 1200, use of PCMCIA 2 MB or 4 MB Memory Card may degrade performance. Suggested Retail Price: $399.00 Release Date: November 15, 1993 Deliverable Date: December 1, 1993 or sooner For more information contact: Scala, Inc. 12110 Sunset Hills Rd. Suite 100 Reston, VA 22090 Tel: (703) 709-8043 Fax: (703) 709-8242 Scala and Scala MultiMedia MM300 are registered trademarks of Scala, Inc. All other producst mentioned herein are registered trademarks of their respective companies. Specifications, features, price and other information subject to change without notice.