--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4F00004 Date: 04/10/95 From: MARK VOLKOFF Time: 12:11am \/To: BRENT SMITH (Read 6 times) Subj: CONTROL L <-> RS232 "Video Director" is a PC software package for basic edit control that comes with a cable that connects a serial port to a Control-L jack and also outputs infared signals to remotely control a VCR. The software allows you to send the usual START STOP PAUSE signals to the Control-L and receive the Control--L tape counter information for display on the screen. You didn't say what sort of use you have in mind. I also have some info on building and programming a device called a "D-Box" that is supposed to allow full Control-L interface for multiple devices. Let me know if you would like me to rustle-up the info on where to obtain the "D-Box" plans. This is a project that requires you to make a curcuit board, solder on the components, and program a EPROM. --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 24th Street Exchange * A BBS Since 1983 * 916.448.2483 (1:203/52) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4F00005 Date: 03/26/95 From: ROBERT COHEN Time: 07:48pm \/To: MANUEL COATS (Read 7 times) Subj: Re: Video Toaster MC> One other question I have is about my Panasonic S-VHS AG1970 deck. I MC> own MC> two of them. One of them when played in slo-mo or paused will usually MC> have MC> a lot of noise on the screen, while the other plays the same tape MC> flawlessly. I have enen played the tape on my standard VHS deck and it MC> plays back in slow mo better than the S-VHS AG1970. I have tried MC> cleaning MC> the heads with a vcr tape head cleaner yet the pciture is still the MC> same. MC> When played back in normal playback, it looks like it is working MC> perfectly. MC> What is the deal here? Why is it not playing steadily in slow motion? MC> Take Care. Manny, Videotape head cleaners, even the wet ones, are not very effective on excessivly dirty heads. They are fine for emergency situations, but are not the cure all that many people use them as. The deal is this. When playing back a videotape at full speed, only two heads are important. The other two heads are used for special FX (slowmo, or freeze frame). So, it sounds to me as if the extra two heads are very dirty (beyond the help of a cleaner tape) or (worse) in need of replacement. You should have your machines professionally cleaned (or learn how to do this yourself) at least two or three times per year, especially if you use them frequently and for professional reasons. And, try not to use those cleaning tapes too much. They themselves can ruin your heads with excessive use. . . Good Luck. . . * Q-Blue 1.0 [NR] * --- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j' * Origin: Lightwaved 3D BBS! 510.228.0886 (1:125/525) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4F00006 Date: 04/10/95 From: TRACY EVANS Time: 04:19am \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: Video Equip Panasonic VHS Edit Sys 2 8500 edit decks 1 controller $2200 JVC VHS Edit Sys. 8600 edit decks 1 controller $2500 WJMX-12 Mixer and 2 Monitors $900 1 SuperGen $200 WJ-AVE 5 Mixer $600 817-496-4331 or mail me --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: WILDMAIL! v4 - Rewriting the Book on Mail Tossing! (1:130/1013.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4H00000 Date: 04/10/95 From: MARK SHANDER Time: 08:41pm \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: Resignation This has NO EFFECT on PRO_AUDIO and PRO_VIDEO, but I wanted to share it with you: * Message originally: From: Mark Shander To : All Date: 04-10-95 Area: "BCST_MODERATOR" * Forwarded by Mark Shander using RemoteAccess 2.02+ With this message, I formally resign as administrator of BPCNet. The Broadcaster's Professional Communications Network has been in existence for many years, and although the growth factor has been minimal, it's been frequented by a core of media professionals that have helped to make this one of the most pleasurable hobbies I've ever enjoyed. As I move on to commercial ventures (which I haven't announced yet), I turn the keys (and ELIST passwords) over for all of the conferences I moderate, except for PRO_AUDIO and PRO_VIDEO, which I will continue to moderate. If you're interested in taking over, please let me know. I'm offering Steve Lewis first crack at it, since he's been more than helpful over the course of BPCNet's life...if he's not interested, I'll consider takers. Thanks again for all of the hard work many of you have put into keeping the network alive. Type to you later. Mark --- FMail/386 0.98 * Origin: The Broadcaster's BBS - PRO_VIDEO Echo Host (1:114/91) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4H00001 Date: 04/10/95 From: KYLE WIDENER Time: 05:36pm \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: Newtek's new toy Usenet post from Harv Laser on NAB: -- Cross-posted to comp.sys.amiga.misc, comp.graphics.packages.lightwave, the lightwave mailing list, the video toaster mailing list, and the Amiga Zone on Portal. Today I attended a presentation by NewTek at Caeser's Palace in Las Vegas in conjunction with NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters yearly convention, expected to attract some 90,000 people. I'll comment further on the NewTek presentation in another posting. I got their press kit and this is the most significant of the many press releases it contained. I typed all of this in as a courtesy to the Computing/Amiga/Toaster community, not to generate flames. What this press release does not tell you is the form factor for the new Toaster box. It's a long skinny box about 6" x 6" by two feet long. It comes with a padded carrying case. It has rubber feet on its belly. I am "on location" at a hotel in Vegas and am not equipped to digitize and upload pictures of the box from the press kit, sorry. Watch for the next issue of Video Toaster User magazine which should have all the visual poop on this beast. Harv harv@cup.portal.com (any typing errors in the press release below are mine. I am in no way affiliated with NewTek, Inc.) ---- NEWTEK, INC. ANNOUNCES PORTABLE VIDEO TOASTER FOR WINDOWS April 9, 19915, NAB Las Vegas NewTek Inc., today announced a portable standalone Video Toaster for Windows NT and Windows 95. NewTek is known for developing the Emmy Award-winning Video Toaster, the product that launched the desktop video industry. "The original Video Toaster established itself as the standard for desktop-based video production," said Tim Jenison, inventor of the Toaster and President of NewTek. "With the Video Toaster for Windows, we're opening our doors to millions of Windows-based video producers." The new Video Toaster utilizes NewTek's proprietary video compression technique, VTASC, for real-time recording, playback, and non-linear editing. The unit features a built-in time base corrector and utilizes off the shelf computer hard drives for recording video. In addition, you can work with a total of 8 tracks of 16-bit CD-quality audio. The Video Toaster serves as both a Record Deck in the field and an A/B Roll Edit System in the studio. The original Toaster is known for its video effects, color processing, character generation, paint, and 3D graphics. It changed the face of the video industry by being the first video device to incorporate all of the major production tools in one box at an incredibly affordable price. With the standalone Toaster, NewTek has added non-linear- editing, CD-quality audio and portability to the equation. Now you can record video, capture freeze frames, add titles, design graphics, edit scenes, insert 3D animations, and put together a complete video program using a single, sensible "drag and drop" interface. Pricing for the standalone Video Toaster begins at $7995.00 and the system is expected ship (sic) in the third quarter of 1995. A professional model, which includes a built-in control module with 5.6" LCD monitor screen and front panel buttons, will also be available for $9995.00. Both models ship complete with the ability to run Video Toaster software when connected to any computer running Windows NT or Windows 95. In the field, the professional model can be operated entirely from its front panel LCD controls. It can even perform basic editing on the fly. The control panel with the LCD monitor was added primarily for electronic news gathering and electronic field production users, "But everyone will love it," says Jenison. "It's very sharp and clear. You can shoot and play back anywhere,e anytime, without the4 need to be hooked up to a computer." In the field, this will allow the cameraman to control the Toaster via his camera cable. During the ride home from the shoot, the producer can review the footage on the LCD front panel button (sic). Back at the studio, the editor can control the entire system via SCSI cable control from any Windows NT or Windows 95-based PC. Video Toaster for Windows includes the tremendously-popular graphics package LightWave 3D, a full-featured 3D animation system renowned for its easy to use interface and powerful features. The new Toaster can even function as the animation recorder for LightWave so that artists can create flying logos, animated spots, scrolling credits and more, direct to disk, with the ability to play them back immediately. NewTek has given careful consideration to its existing user base. The heart of the new Video Toaster is the Flyer non-linear editing hardware. The Flyer's operating system has been completely re-written to act as the brain of the new Toaster. At the same time it remains fully compatible with the current flyer hardware, which will allow Video Toaster Flyer owners to convert their present Video Toaster system into the new Video Toaster easily. The new Toaster not only works with Windows NT but also with present Amiga Toaster systems. NewTek will make available a Video Toaster Bay (essentially the new Video Toaster package minus the Flyer) to current owners so they may enjoy the expanded capabilities of the portable system while retaining all of the abilities of their current system. The cost of the Video Toaster Bay for current flyer users will be $2995.00. The professional version will be $4995.00. NewTek will be demonstrating Video Toaster for Windows and LightWave 3D at the NAB Convention April 10-13 in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth #15171, and in the Video Toaster User Pavilion in the Multimedia hall. For more information contact NewTek Inc., customer service at 1-800- 847-6111. ### | AmiQWK 2.7 - S/N 0171 | ... Windows: Just another pane in the glass. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: WILDMAIL! A.L.T. BBS (318) 687-8912 (1:380/64.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4H00002 Date: 04/09/95 From: CHRIS BAUGH Time: 01:55pm \/To: GARRETT MOON (Read 8 times) Subj: Animation On (Wed 5 Ap) Garrett Moon wrote to All... GM> 1) What digitizer/drawing tablets would be a good, affordable GM> choice? Should I worry about pressure sensitivity and such? GM> What models are upgradable? (note - I'm on a tiny budget GM> here...) I've used a Wacom tablet and really enjoyed working with it. The tablet itself didn't seem to be anything special, just a slab-like, well, tablet, with a cord out the back to plug into the computer. The stylus was very lightweight, pressure sensitive and cordless, and worked just like using a pen. Tapping the stylus on the tablet worked like a click, while a button on the side of the stylus provided a double-click (or, of course, two taps of the stylus would do the same thing!). Apparently the Wacoms are among the most popular, and a wide variety of graphics programs can use them. I don't know of any way to upgrade from one tablet to another. That would be like trying to upgrade your coffee table to a dinner table. Instead of upgrading, you'd need to sell the smaller tablet and apply the money to buying a bigger one instead. IF you pick a tablet with a cordless, pressure sensitive stylus, the only other difference will be how big the tablet is. For your TV animation work, 6x9" should be fine, while a desktop publisher working on posters, or an architect working on blueprints, might prefer a bigger tablet. Good luck with your tablet purchase! I think they're around $350 now. An Amiga version might be a bit more since not as many people will want to buy the version with the Amiga software. ... There is a plot to make me think I'm paranoid! --- PPoint 1.92 * Origin: "Bother," said Pooh (1:105/290.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4H00003 Date: 04/09/95 From: CHRIS BAUGH Time: 02:02pm \/To: DAN DEEMERT (Read 7 times) Subj: Copyright Laws On (05 Apr 95) Dan Deemert wrote to Tom Witte... DD> BTW, is there such a thing as "good royalty free music"? Sure, it's often called "buyout" music: when you buy the CD, you also buy out (at the same price) all rights to use the music in your videos or films. This is different than the typical music library arrangement where you need to pay a fee for each selection of music you use in each of your programs (called a "needledrop fee" even though you might not be using a phonograph these days). ... CAUTION! Do Not Look Into Laser With Remaining Eye. --- PPoint 1.92 * Origin: "Bother," said Pooh (1:105/290.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4H00004 Date: 04/11/95 From: BRENT SMITH Time: 03:02am \/To: MARK VOLKOFF (Read 7 times) Subj: Re: CONTROL L <-> RS232 While Surfing the Curl Mark Volkoff, Said to Brent Smith something about CONTROL L <-> RS232 MV> "Video Director" is a PC software package for basic edit control that comes MV> with a cable that connects a serial port to a Control-L jack and also outpu MV> infared signals to remotely control a VCR. MV> MV> The software allows you to send the usual START STOP PAUSE signals to t MV> Control-L and receive the Control--L tape counter information for display MV> the screen. MV> MV> You didn't say what sort of use you have in mind. I also have some info on MV> building and programming a device called a "D-Box" that is supposed to allo MV> full Control-L interface for multiple devices. Let me know if you would li MV> me to rustle-up the info on where to obtain the "D-Box" plans. This is a MV> project that requires you to make a curcuit board, solder on the components MV> and program a EPROM. Ok what we have is a pc doing the daily comunity channel adds, What we want it to do is start 2 or 3 vcr's at specific times to air shows. This is already built into the program and hadware we are using fo vcr's that have a rs232 port, But we would like to get buy on some lower cost conusmer machines that only have control L Brent.... --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Rebel's Reef Simcoe Ont. Can. USR 28,8 ZyXEL 19,2 (1:245/100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4H00005 Date: 04/11/95 From: MARK SHANDER Time: 04:09pm \/To: KYLE WIDENER (Read 7 times) Subj: Newtek's new toy * Reply to Original Transmission from Kyle Widener to All: Thanks for sharing Harv's report from NAB on the new Toaster box...if I have a chance while I'm there later this week I'll have a look. --- FMail/386 0.98 * Origin: The Broadcaster's BBS - PRO_VIDEO Echo Host (1:114/91) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 201 PRO VIDEO Ref: C4I00000 Date: 04/04/95 From: BILL THOMPSON Time: 11:50pm \/To: MANUEL COATS (Read 6 times) Subj: VIDEO QUESTIONS Manny, I can do all this things you are in need of. Please give me a call at: 1-800-827-4761. Bill --- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j' * Origin: Lightwaved 3D BBS! 510.228.0886 (1:125/525)