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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. Re:Rumors by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 1, Troll

    CNN has editing and switching devices that are just SLIGHTLY more powerful than a toaster. Slightly in the same way that a Mack truck has slightly more towing capacity than a 5-year old on a bike.

    I have a feeling this is just an Amiga fanboy rumour to make themselves feel good (you haven't met a real zealot till you've met an Amiga zealot). By necessity, the big broadcast networks have some really heavy hitting hardware, there'd be no need or want to have a toaster to do anything.

    I mean even little local stations have more. In highschool I vistited the local Flagstaff news channel. It is a pathetically small operation, that puts on a pathetic broadcast by any real standard. None the less, they have a full out video switcher/wiper/etc unit, about 20 tape decks, several editing workstations, and so on.