Back in the early 90's I remember that many times I'd see a print
advertisement for a Video Toaster or a new genlock card, they'd say things
like "features you'd have to pay thousands for in a professional paintbox
or titler!" I always wondered what they were talking about, since I'd
never seen ho
Those are pretty hard to find, have yet to add one to my collection.
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Several of my friends worked on Intelligent Resources’ Video Explorer NuBus
card, which could do realtime video capture and manipulation because it had
some sort of video processing and switching chip on the card. It also had an
open bus that could be used to connect multiple video-related cards
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzy94vWUitE <== AVID/1 DEMO
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On Tue, 3 May 2016, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> ISTR the Toaster Flyer had 3 SCSI channels, one for A, one for B, and
> one for the output stream once you were done with doing the
> layout/compositing, but I wasn't a Toaster user, so I could be wrong
> too.
Interesting. That makes sense since you'd ha
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:36 PM, wrote:
>> Was I right? Did that thing actually digitize video? Once you had it could
>> you use it as a source for A/B rolls and the like that the regular
>> Toaster functions covered?
>
> From what I know the flyer boards had their own scsi bus or something for
>
At 02:51 PM 5/3/2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
>Did that thing actually digitize video? Once you had it could you use it as a
>source for A/B rolls and the like that the regular Toaster functions covered?
IIRC it could be used that way, but IIRC it wouldn't store an awful lot of
video.
>I didn't re
Was I right? Did that thing actually digitize video? Once you had it could
you use it as a source for A/B rolls and the like that the regular
Toaster functions covered?
From what I know the flyer boards had their own scsi bus or something for
dedicated video disks? I could be wrong, I worked fo
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Dale H. Cook wrote:
> >I also seem to remember that the Toaster had something that came along
> >later called the "Toaster Flyer" card that would allow you to digitize
> >video and work with it digitally, but I never used one
> Our Toaster had a Flyer.
Was I right? Did that t
At 02:05 PM 5/3/2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
>I also seem to remember that the Toaster had something that came along later
>called the "Toaster Flyer" card that would allow you to digitize video and
>work with it digitally, but I never used one
Our Toaster had a Flyer.
Dale H. Cook, Radio Contrac
At 01:52 PM 5/3/2016, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>The early Avid systems just commanded the VTR's over RS-422 to go to time
>points then punch in, correct? It was non-linear but the video wasn't
>digitized or stored on disk?
I don't know - the earliest Avid products I worked with were from the late
On Tue, 3 May 2016, et...@757.org wrote:
> The early Avid systems just commanded the VTR's over RS-422 to go to
> time points then punch in, correct? It was non-linear but the video
> wasn't digitized or stored on disk?
That's what I remember, too, but I could be wrong. I also seem to remember
Add to those the Avid/1 non-linear editor from Avid Technology,
introduced in 1989, which ran on a Mac II using some specialized
hardware. It rapidly became the leading video editing system for
television and film (which, of course, had to be digitized). It
eventually displaced almost all cellu
On 5/3/16 8:56 AM, Swift Griggs wrote:
> Superpaint running on a DG Nova 800
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpaint
>
Superpaint was an experimental system at Xerox PARC
Quantel paintboxes were some of the earliest commercial systems.
Dig around in the SIGGRAPH proceedings in the 70s for
At 11:56 AM 5/3/2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
>The Quantel Paintbox:
>
>Superpaint running on a DG Nova 800
>
>The Bosch FGS 4000
Add to those the Avid/1 non-linear editor from Avid Technology, introduced in
1989, which ran on a Mac II using some specialized hardware. It rapidly became
the leading
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