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Grex Amiga Item 4: Toaster for Windows
Entered by lkt on Tue May 16 05:58:27 UTC 1995:

The following information was gleaned from articles in the June '95
issue of Video Toaster User:

At the recent National Association of Broadcasters convention held in
Las Vegas in April, NewTek announced the Windows version of the Video
Toaster.  It's an external device that attaches to the SCSI II port
of a PC running Windows NT or Windows 95.  In addition to the usual
Toaster stuff - the switcher, CG, TPaint, Lightwave - it also
incorporates the Toaster Flyer, a built-in TBC and a few new devices
to tie it all together.  A less expensive, Flyer-less version, The
Toaster Bay, will also be available.

The pro version includes an LCD screen, function buttons, a soft shell
carrying case and a battery system that allows you to take the Toaster
into the field without a PC attached to it and record directly from
your video camera to the hard drives.  The LCD panel is hinged,
allowing you to slide hard drives in and out as easily as swapping
cassettes in a VCR.  That's right, a tapeless digital video recorder,
capable of recording video at the highest resolution your camera can
provide -- which is quite a bit higher than most camcorder and VCR
tape formats are capable of recording.  You can use the portable
Toaster's built-in edit functions or connect a laptop to it and edit
on location, or take it back to your studio and connect it to your
desktop PC.

There are some tradeoffs involved in leaving the Amiga environment.
For instance, transitional effects like fades and cuts will still
occur in real-time, but most other effects will take several seconds
to render.  On the plus side, these effects will be free of the
aliasing and pixelization you see in some of the oroginal Amiga
Toaster effects.

The Toaster for Windows is scheduled to ship in the third quarter of
this year, although Tim Jennison has been optimistically maintaining
that it will be available as early as July.

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by lkt on Mon May 22 03:35:25 1995:

As an addendum to the above, I should mention that Jennison continues
to reassure current Amiga Toaster users that NewTek is continuing
development of the exisiting Toaster system software.  Also, the new
external version of the Toaster is controllable from an Amiga, as well
as from a Windows-based PC.

#2 of 4 by scott on Sun Oct 22 13:50:47 1995:

Toaster is *very* cool.  About 3-4 years ago when I was heavy into public
access cable in East Lansing, the cable station got a Toaster setup.  I'm
still impressed, 4 years later.

#3 of 4 by agent86 on Fri Nov 21 20:32:02 1997:

Ok, so I seem to be picking up a two year old (dead?) item. Did the
Windows-toaster ever happen?

#4 of 4 by mta on Sat Nov 22 08:47:35 1997:

Not that I've heard ... and you'd think I would.  Non?  ;)

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