After you had a toaster, the natural step was to get a Flyer, is was a capturing card for NLE video.
Basically the flyer could reproduce two videos at the same time, from two hard drives, and a third hard drive was used for sound, it used the toaster as a switcher, so it did not need to render de effects, they were ral time, so it was very fast, even for today standards.
I made a living, editing on the flyer, from corporate videos, to TV comercials, we never get a complain about the quality.
I miss the interface a lot, i could edit faster on a flyer, than on a modern Avid system.
specially, i loved the arexx scripts to automate editing chores.
For example, with one script, i just put the music track, and the script would automatically put fade in, put volumen down and up, and fade out to the music. It was just a mateer of minutes to put music to a video. Today i hve to adjust each level by hand.
Another of my favorite scripts was to put video efect autmatically on my finished video. I would make a cut only edition, and then just put a soft cut in all my editions, in less thana aminute i could adjust all my efect, or chagen them glbally.
Finally, my favorite trick was used to make music videos.
First i load in the project all the video secuences i would like to use, then i load the music. Then i play the music and began to tap de rithm on the keyboard. Each tap would put a videsecuence in place. After that, a little cleaning, and voila, an instant music video. It aws wonderful and fun...
I miss all that power...
Unfortunatelly, the video signal was composite video. Today we are used to D2 quality. Altough still there are people who can,t see the diferences:)
By the way...
Spielberg was a toater Fan, he used the toaster (lightwave) for storyboarding, int one of the books aopbut how jurasic park was made, we see Spielberb playing wit an open toaster...
After that photo, my chief never complained again that our toaster had almost always open... (screws are for cowards...) 8)
Amiga 2000 and 4000 had bateries on the motherboard, for the clock, unfortunatelly they ONLY were garantted for 10 years.
I had three A2000... and their batteries are still good.. But i think is about time to replace then...:)
Amiga2 500, 600 had batteries in their 500 KB memory expansion and A1200 ussualy had a battery on the acelerator card, altough there was an option for a internall clock...
If i remember correctly, the only problem is the diferent way that mozilla codes its theads, versus the way amiga uses multitask.
But really.. i never have cared much for Amizilla, since there are already some good web browsers for amiga. And i don,t undestand why a web browser has to be bigger than 1 MB...:)
I Still uses my old amigas, an even earn money with them...
I know that the hardware will eventually break, but it still have some years left of use...
"Dude.. 45 countries have supported us. thats three TIMES the number who would have had to vote positive in the UN. Of those who dont, only a handful really matter. get the facts straight. (And realize several of them are the neighboring states..w hich brings us to... )"
uhmmm I supose Canada an Mexico do not matter.
Here President Fox had a hard time deciding what to do.
By polls 75% of the populations opose the war. All the poilitical parties oposed the war. The congress oposed the war. The Senate oposed the war. Then press oposed the war
But the Canacintra (The coalition of bussines men) insist to suport USA because they fear of the economic penalties that have been warned to Mexico by the embassy of US. (The insist they were against the war, but that economic realities were more important)
Finally he decided to do what democratic contry should do... altiugh eventually Mexico did not have to cast a vote, it was no secret what it was.
So i guess that country smaller than Mexico have to face the economic realities...
Bye the way. In Japan, 70% opose the war, Spain, 69% opose, Of UK I am not shure..
" Radical terrorist groups-including al Qaeda-in possession of such weapons and without a home address, could get the Iraqi government, which has a known location and a leader whose primary goal is survival, into a lot of trouble with the great powers. Saddam, ever paranoid, does not even let his own regular military units have biological and chemical weapons. So it is unlikely that he would give them to terrorists.
In its analysis, the CIA has apparently discovered such disincentives for Iraqi use or transfer of superweapons. But the CIA also understands that if the United States invades Iraq, Hussein's incentives change for the worse. Hussein could become a loose cannon and do exactly what the Bush administration is trying to prevent with an invasion. Under the deterrence and containment strategy, Saddam is like a lion in a cage. The threat that he poses has been circumscribed. But the Bush administration's apparent desire for an invasion is like going into the cage with a stick and trying to kill the lion. The United States has a big stick and can probably kill the lion, but must expect to be bloodied in the process. Getting bloodied when the threat was already contained does not seem sensible.
well yes, there still some fanatics, like me,
i use it for design web pages, multimedia, and
3d animation (lightwave). I also have a
windows NT, dual pentium at 500 mhz and 256 ram,
that i use for rendering, but most of the time i prefer the Amiga,
it's web browser are faster than Netscape or explorer even on machines
runing at 50 mhz...
I know it's ancient technology but still
is eficient...
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Since the amiga was sincronized to the video signal, it was very easy to gennlock the amiga video signal to video, and mix the amiga graphcis.
:)
The amiga even provide its own key signal, so it was very clean.
Also, a very easy to overclock an the amiga.. was to put your video inf fast forward....
Of course a very fast forward could break the system. Thas why the Toaster required a TBC for getting a stable signal, and a satable machine.
sorry i could not resist...
:)
I still have a toaster (on amiga 2000) and a flyer, and still use them.
Not for video editing, but for live production in corporate events.
I just paint them with a neat black paint and they look cool
Not bad. Probably you will see new postings until the last of those legendady machines still works..
Basically the flyer could reproduce two videos at the same time, from two hard drives, and a third hard drive was used for sound, it used the toaster as a switcher, so it did not need to render de effects, they were ral time, so it was very fast, even for today standards.
I made a living, editing on the flyer, from corporate videos, to TV comercials, we never get a complain about the quality.
I miss the interface a lot, i could edit faster on a flyer, than on a modern Avid system.
specially, i loved the arexx scripts to automate editing chores.
For example, with one script, i just put the music track, and the script would automatically put fade in, put volumen down and up, and fade out to the music. It was just a mateer of minutes to put music to a video. Today i hve to adjust each level by hand.
Another of my favorite scripts was to put video efect autmatically on my finished video. I would make a cut only edition, and then just put a soft cut in all my editions, in less thana aminute i could adjust all my efect, or chagen them glbally.
Finally, my favorite trick was used to make music videos.
First i load in the project all the video secuences i would like to use, then i load the music. Then i play the music and began to tap de rithm on the keyboard. Each tap would put a videsecuence in place. After that, a little cleaning, and voila, an instant music video. It aws wonderful and fun...
I miss all that power...
Unfortunatelly, the video signal was composite video. Today we are used to D2 quality. Altough still there are people who can,t see the diferences :)
By the way... Spielberg was a toater Fan, he used the toaster (lightwave) for storyboarding, int one of the books aopbut how jurasic park was made, we see Spielberb playing wit an open toaster...
After that photo, my chief never complained again that our toaster had almost always open... (screws are for cowards...) 8)
Amiga 2000 and 4000 had bateries on the motherboard, for the clock, unfortunatelly they ONLY were garantted for 10 years.
... :)
I had three A2000... and their batteries are still good.. But i think is about time to replace then
Amiga2 500, 600 had batteries in their 500 KB memory expansion and A1200 ussualy had a battery on the acelerator card, altough there was an option for a internall clock...
This batteries are a bit more recent..
If i remember correctly, the only problem is the diferent way that mozilla codes its theads, versus the way amiga uses multitask.
:)
But really.. i never have cared much for Amizilla, since there are already some good web browsers for amiga. And i don,t undestand why a web browser has to be bigger than 1 MB...
I Still uses my old amigas, an even earn money with them...
I know that the hardware will eventually break, but it still have some years left of use...
If you care to check...
a s/ gp58_a3segundo.html
this is the Agenda of the Mexican Congress.
http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/Iniciativ
or just search on the main page:
http://www.camaradediputados.gob.mx/
So far the Mexican Law is mostly based on the soviet law, which tries to put works in the public domain as soon as posible.
And anything that could be of use for good of the people can be declared on the public domain.
That si why in Mexico you cant patent a medicine (altough Mexico acept the patents registered outside...)
Javier Delgado
"Dude.. 45 countries have supported us. thats three TIMES the number who would have had to vote positive in the UN. Of those who dont, only a handful really matter. get the facts straight. (And realize several of them are the neighboring states..w hich brings us to... )"
uhmmm I supose Canada an Mexico do not matter.
Here President Fox had a hard time deciding what to do.
By polls 75% of the populations opose the war.
All the poilitical parties oposed the war.
The congress oposed the war.
The Senate oposed the war.
Then press oposed the war
But the Canacintra (The coalition of bussines men) insist to suport USA because they fear of the economic penalties that have been warned to Mexico by the embassy of US. (The insist they were against the war, but that economic realities were more important)
Finally he decided to do what democratic contry should do... altiugh eventually Mexico did not have to cast a vote, it was no secret what it was.
So i guess that country smaller than Mexico have to face the economic realities...
Bye the way. In Japan, 70% opose the war, Spain, 69% opose, Of UK I am not shure..
Not coincidence, but not proof of support either, if there were any solid evidence, why it was not presented at the UN?
Intead there were some rumors about a lider having surgical operation in Irak.
Bin ladden had surgical operation in Kuwait a month before the 11 sept attacks...
We could also see some coincidence as the Bush Family having bussines with Bin Laden,s family...?
So the CIA is Lying...
" Radical terrorist groups-including al Qaeda-in possession of such weapons and without a home address, could get the Iraqi government, which has a known location and a leader whose primary goal is survival, into a lot of trouble with the great powers. Saddam, ever paranoid, does not even let his own regular military units have biological and chemical weapons. So it is unlikely that he would give them to terrorists.
In its analysis, the CIA has apparently discovered such disincentives for Iraqi use or transfer of superweapons. But the CIA also understands that if the United States invades Iraq, Hussein's incentives change for the worse. Hussein could become a loose cannon and do exactly what the Bush administration is trying to prevent with an invasion. Under the deterrence and containment strategy, Saddam is like a lion in a cage. The threat that he poses has been circumscribed. But the Bush administration's apparent desire for an invasion is like going into the cage with a stick and trying to kill the lion. The United States has a big stick and can probably kill the lion, but must expect to be bloodied in the process. Getting bloodied when the threat was already contained does not seem sensible.
http://www.cato.org/dailys/10-14-02.html
hummm
:-O
This reminds me of my Timex Sinclar 1000.
The manual for the expansion to 16kb said...
"16kb is a lot of memory, there are no contest to try to fill it..."
Now i feel i am ancient...
I still use mi Amiga 1200 and earn money with it!!!
(8 mb ram at 30 mhz...). Now it,s ancient technology..
Amazing =8-)
Oh, yes, it's called Alynx, :-)
and of course there is Amosaic,
but i prefer something more recent
Javier Delgado
it's fast , but you are locked to 256 colors if
you have an 256 workbench, but it can open it's own screen.
Of course if you have only an aga machine that it,s
the best you cando, but If you put a graphic card it would be better.
But i prefer voyager (version 3.2).
Both have an incremental rendering, so usually
they can display a partial loaded page faster
than Explorer.
What they lack is a goos Javascript Supports.
They have implemented Javascript but
they have not implementes it's bugs and idisioncracies...
so it's not very much usefull.
there are two PDF readers, ghoscript and APDF.
but they don;t work well with the latest
implementacions of PDF.
By default Amiga suport compugrafic fonts, but
there is a library ttf.library that user Truetype fonts.
And some programs support Adobe, but not at system level.
I know it's ancient technology but still is eficient...
Javier Delgado