ron@attcan.UUCP (Ron Joma) (03/19/91)
Is there any software about which would be similar in capabilities to the Video Toaster but running on TARGA cards. Any input would be appreciated. Ron
whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) (03/24/91)
ron@attcan.UUCP (Ron Joma) writes: >Is there any software about which would be similar in capabilities >to the Video Toaster but running on TARGA cards. Any input >would be appreciated. The Toaster has very little to do with image manipulation as you may know it. Newtek's Video Toaster is a computer in itself, just borrowing some of the Amiga's brains. You can do realtime, live digital F/X like mosaic, digital zoom, the "transporter" from Star Trek, luma keys, video swaps of every description - 128 in all. You have 4 video inputs and 2 digital fram estores to play with. And that's just the main menu - You also have a paint program (Digi-paint - I think it's 24 bit) Lightwave 3D with modeler (a rendering and animation program) a super-high res. CG program, and my favorite, a program that can replace any of 96 luminance levels with a color, so you can make a "chrome" effect, a "nuclear wasteland" look, or just reverse the video. It's $1500, and you need an Amiga with 7 Megs of RAM (I think - That's our system) a video camera, and if you're using a VCR with it, you'll need a time base corrector. -- whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM | I don't know, who's at DDSW1? | whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM! I asked YOU who's at DDSW1! Ok, there's a guy at DDSW1, right? | Right! Who? | Exactly! | What? | No, he's at lll-winken. | Where? | No, What! | I don't know! | He's at gargoyle. | Who? | No, he's at DDSW1.MCS.COM!