> On 2017-11-05, at 14:13, smf <smf@null.net> wrote: > >> The problem was that even if they eventually made it, it would have come far too late to make a difference on PAL markets. By the time it was rumoured I had already an extensive library of Arexx scripts controlling ADPro, Fred, ImageFX, PAR/AD3000.. They were doing most things I needed and more than the Toaster. Not in real time, obviously but since I wasn't working with live transmissions, at that point in time I probably wouldn't buy the PAL Toaster, even if it eventually came. And no, as you mentioned, NTSC Toaster was not a viable alternative for broadcast quality productions. > Yeah, if you're not doing live then the toaster is not that useful. I was doing four camera live video mixing around that time, because offline editing is a huge time drain. Toaster would have been awesome, but we made do with the crappy stand alone mixer. Live only very occasionally, usually where we needed to show something from the computer. 90% of what I was doing was post/gfx/special effects and compositing. NLE in digital domain was still a PITA at the time so most of NLE was done in analogue domain, poor VCRs[*]... but we were doing also the "more special" transitions, or titling for example (Scala) and the killer was chroma keying, which the PC/Mac/Studio people couldn't believe their eyes every time they saw it (ImageFX) :-) > I think having the Toaster available would have driven the market a bit more. IMHO it could have had a huge impact, had it come right after the NTSC version. Like a year or two max. * - I remember how we recorded the first Real3D animation frame by frame on one of the new, hugely expensive at the time Betamax SPs and the studio owner was rather displeased ;-) -- SD! - http://e4aws.silverdr.com/ Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-11-05 16:04:31
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