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From: jkrutz@meta.burner.com (Jamie Krutz) ()
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Subject: Re: Par Question...
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.950815155009.27365C-100000@discovery.igc.net> Blackout <blackout@igc.net> writes:
>
>
> What is a Broadcaster?
A motion jpeg card from Applied Magic. Includes composite, s-video and
BetaCam component i/o, LTC and VITC support, genlocks to external
systems, and includes editing software called Producer. Producer offers
drag and drop list editing, a visual timeline, a variety of rendered transition
effects, a way to animate overlayed 8 bit text and graphics, a nice database
for logging and managing large editing projects, and ARexx control of digitizing
and playback. There are a wide variety of digitizing options from really blocky
for offlining (it has limited support for CMX list exporting) to quite reasonable
video quality. Producer runs fine in workstation resolutions on graphics cards
(I use a GVP Spectrum at 1120/832), and Producer uses multiple windows in
its interface.
The current hardware is called the Broadcaster Elite. The system uses
the SunRize AD516 for audio. It's not as mature as, say, the Media 100,
but it offers a lot of features for a lot less money, and (big plus) it runs on
the Amiga (with a port underway for the upcoming standard PPC machines).
I redid the Elite/Producer manual for Applied Magic, and they're currently
shipping a preliminary version of that manual with the final version to ship
with the upcoming Producer 2.0. I'm still waiting for my Elite card and am
using an older DB32 card which is fine for animation layback but puts faint
lines on digitized video. The Elite does not have this problem. The DB32 and
Elite use a field dominance that is opposite from that used by the PAR.
Depending on your software this may be a problem for some people when
field rendering. There is a workaround which involves losing the first and
last fields of an animation which I haven't tried yet. The newest LW and the
next WCS have the ability to choose field dominance.
Hope that helps,
-Jamie
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