weirdami wrote:
The commercial tapes for the VT say something about attaching a couple of VCR's as part of putting your television studio together. VT was invented to handle real-time whatnots, and nobody was doing non-linear until the Flyer came around. I'd say that the Video Toaster will be still useful as a broadcast quality switcher/real-time editing thingamabob until the current standard definition video becomes obsolete.
The VT and subsequent Flyer were very instrumental in bring the power of video editing to new levels of functionality and affordability, and nothing is ever going to change it's place in history
...however I do feel compelled to dispute some of the mis-information that appears at A.org with some regularity.
The first TRUE non linear editor was the CMX 600 in 1971..
although nowhere near as functional as what would follow it - it does have the distinction of being first.
LucasFilms Editdroid did come closer - in the early 80's
Quantel took it further around 1985 with a video effects editor
In 1989, however, the EMC2 and the Avid/1 (the first in the Media Composer line) were released.. it would be hard to dispute these as non-linear editing systems by todays standards.
This was before the Toaster came out (1990) - let alone the Flyer that would bring non linear editing to it.
Further - Adobe Premier was released in 1991 (although the initial version was far from useful...)
If someone already HAD one - I'd say sure, great cheap garage solution for switching.. maybe doing some editing... however, I couldn't (and wouldn't) recommend anyone wanting to buy or build a system going anywhere near the hardware.
It would be a very very poor choice and they'd end up wasting time and money.
