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Source of Amiga Video Toaster Software Released

Posted by timothy on from the if-only-linux-had-a-simple-nle dept.

bender writes "About a decade after the release of of the NewTek Video Toaster for the Amiga, OpenVideoToaster is now hosting the source code of the software! The Video Toaster ushered in the age of affordable desktop video in 1991 and was used in products such as Babylon 5 and Jurassic Park."

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  1. Jurassic Park by duffhuff · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't think Video Toaster was used on Jurassic Park, at least, not for rendering; SoftImage was used for the majority of the work. VideoToaster could have been used for compositing or other image effects, but I'm almost certain they never rendered any models with it. I pretty certain because I attented a presentation given by one of the guys who worked on JP, and it was all about SoftImage, but that was a long time ago.

  2. Re:Cinelerra by rduke15 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If I told you "look at this, it's a great pizza oven", and you see a toaster, would you get the toaster, bring it home, make a pizza, and try to bake it in the toaster?

    (note how I manage to pretend staying on topic).

    As for Cinelerra, which may be nice software, the web page has definitely enough information to show that whatever it is, it can't be a professional NLE.

    I hope you don't take my remarks personally. They were just meant to be informative. Getting the "tone" right is difficult in a foreign language (especially when trying to be slightly ironic, with Americans who seem so sensitive :-) ).