#Scala?
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I have a question about SCALA. I previously worked in The Director 2.0 with
animations. Since I'm planning on upgrading to AGA, where The Director crumps,
I need to switch presentation programs (which is a major bummer since I
invested a ton of time in mastering The Director).
What I want to do is the following:
1. Play back animations at a speed of 15 fps or more with 16 or more colors.
2. Frame synchronize iff sounds to the animation. Preferably, I would like
to use the four different Amiga channels.
EXAMPLE: During the animation, I would like to trigger, on frame 28, an
iff sound of a character talking, on channel 1. On frame 47, I'd like to have
a phone ring on channel 2, while channel 1 has the character talking. On frame
53, on channel 3, I'd like to trigger another character coughing in the
background.
Such things were a snap to do in The Director 2.0. Can SCALA do this with
anim5 format files? How about anim7 format files?
3. I'd like to be able to string together a variety of anim files.
4. The goal is to then simply load up a presentation and dump it to tape.
With The Director 2.0, I could send 3 or more minutes of presentation from my
10 megs of RAM to SVHS before starting again (using careful memory management
techniques, of course).
IS SCALA FOR ME?
Thanks in advance for the response.
Steve Mussey
Steve…
I can probably answer one of your questions for you. Scala has incredible
anim support. They go above and beyond with their included animlab program,
that in effect takes your anim and converts it into anim32 (and other formats)
that play much faster on an AGA machine. It's similar if not identical to
anim7. You can specify from 1 to 50 fps, so you won't have any problems on an
AGA machine getting 15 fps using anim32.
I've also used Scala to record timing of video events (anims, pages, etc) to
sound, but not the other way around like you want to do, so I don't know if
that capability is there. I have a feeling that it is, but John can better
answer that particular question.
And, Scala is currently launching MM300. For those of us who have used Scala
and been sold on its power, it's just gotten a whole lot better. These guys
*really* know what they're doing when it comes to razor sharp effects and
professional transitions, and dealing with Amiga graphics.
Go ahead and take the plunge. You won't be sorry. Scala is, IMHO, the
absolute best AGA presentation software going, and it's a whole lot more than
just presentation software.
And to top it all off, it's brain-dead simple to use and learn.
Jim