[comp.sys.amiga] Video animation help needed...

bill@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Bill Draper) (10/19/90)

Our department would like to provide visitors with about 8 short
(3-5minute) videos that would be selected from a CD and play to a
monitor in our lobby.  Visitors would select play selections relating
to areas they would like to tour.

We have a good video camera, free access to twin deck video editor and
CD production facilities, a MacII(with 8 megs of ram, 40megHD, and
Hi-Res Apple monitor) which is connected via the eithernet to a Stardent
Titan, a Sun System and a VAX.

I would like to take live action videos of students working in various
labs and superimpose titles, maps, arrows, animation, moving flow charts
etc.   over the top of the live videos.   It seemed logical to acquire
software and perhaps some hardware for the Titan or the Mac to accomplish
this but students here insist that the Amiga 2000 with something called
a "toaster" is the way to go....at lower cost with better results.

Does anyone have experience with such a set up and could you suggest
what software and hardware to get?