#Amigas on TV!
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Just about every scene used an Amiga. The big screen stuff was a Betacam video
tape playback (various sources) into an Amiga with Live!, and then fed into a
second Amiga with genlock to do the data character overlay. The RGB was fed
into a GE video projector.
I'm sure you recognized the windows on some of the computer closeups. The
green screen text closeups were an Apple II. Apparently a Gould 9080 (whatever
that is) generated the wire-frame brain.
In the first fifteen seconds there is a brief shot of a technician with two
B7W monitors in the background, and those monitors are flickering like mad.
That occurs when the monitors are not locked to the film camera, but I don't
know how that happened (hey, they could have hired me if they had wanted too.)
Otherwise I didn't notice the stationary bar either. They did a very good job.
No Amiga credit at the end. I shall have to talk to someone about that.
—Mike
Right,talk to them. A computer pretty much considered a personal computer doing
a bundle of TV work should get some recognition. By the way,what part did the
Amiga have in "Our House"? Alex
I don't know. The CBM rep said that four Amigas were used, and that they
were prominent;y displayed (although, like Amazing Stories, I'm sure the logo
will be painted over).
BTW, Pacific Bell in NJ used one in a recent commercial (anyone over there
see it yet?), and Pacific Bell featured one as a "telecommunications computer"
(?) in one of their training films. —Mike
Saturday Night Live used one last week on a Xerox commercial parody.
The "Xerox" computer was a relabeled Amiga.
Don
Great! I'd better start keeping a list. Imagine the exposure after the
genlock is released. I wonder who their metal shield supplier is? We could
all bug 'em until they deliver. —Mike
I heard they are available in Europe (Genlocks that is). I wonder if the PAL
and NTSC Genlocks are the same?
Bri
I doubt they are the same. I don;t know of any device that accepts either
without at least automatically switching circuit paths. The NTSC genlocks are
all ready, except they are waiting for a metal shield (mu-metal, perhaps), to
conform to FCC specs. —Mike
I know the status of the GenLocks for NTSC, but one guy on here said he bought
a PAL Genlock, and was wondering if they would work here. Oh well, such is
life.
Bri
Hi. Sorry to butt in, but I am the one with the PAL Genlock. The manual for
the Genlock says that it will only work with a PAL Amiga and a PAL input. But
it seems that it might be possible to use it with an NTSC Amiga. I can't say
for sure right now, but I will be back in Geneva in ten days and I will try to
use the Genlock with the NTSC AMiga.
Khalid. P.S. The genlock I have is not from
CBM. At least, I don't think so. The name of the company in the manual is
Interactive, and their telephone number is 0536 771155 in the U.K.