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Title: DiscreetFX Presents - Open Video Toaster: No Amiga VT4000 Hardware Required!
Post by: Pyromania on April 14, 2017, 05:21:18 AM
DiscreetFX Presents - Open Video Toaster: No Amiga VT4000 Hardware Required!

NAB 2017 Release version 0.1


Thanx emufan for all the hard work on this release!

Thanx clusteruk & emufan for giving us that gentle but required nudge to update this projects website.  

Download from the two links below

http://discreetfx.com/openvideotoaster.html

http://discreetfx.com/DownloadToasterlessSwitcher.html

Requires Amiga Virtual Machine available from the following links below

http://www.amigaforever.com

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1196


Please read included .Readme file in the download archive for more information.

No donations to Open Video Toaster Required!

Thanks to testers and feedback suggestions on English Amiga Board.

If you want to provide direct feedback to Open Video Toaster find us at

Website: http://www.discreetfx.com

e-mail: discreetfx AT gmail.com

Google Voice: 1 (424) 239-9656

Requires Amiga Forever/WinUAE/P-UAE or any modern Amiga Virtual Machine running on AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS, AROS, OS X (macOS), Linux & Windows.

Also requires version AmigaOS 3.x or newer to run software and Video Toaster 4.3 Install.

http://discreetfx.com/DownloadToaster.html

Lastest version of AmigaOS

http://www.amigaos.net

May also work on MorphOS

http://www.morphos.de

May also work on AROS

http://aros.sourceforge.net

Sincerely

DiscreetFX
Title: Re: DiscreetFX Presents - Open Video Toaster: No Amiga VT4000 Hardware Required!
Post by: Matt_H on April 14, 2017, 04:15:27 PM
Well it sounds exciting, but how does it work? In other words, how are the Toaster's inputs emulated? Does *UAE emulate Toasters/Flyers now? (I haven't been keeping up with development)
Title: Re: DiscreetFX Presents - Open Video Toaster: No Amiga VT4000 Hardware Required!
Post by: Pyromania on April 14, 2017, 05:50:34 PM
Quote from: Matt_H;824531
Well it sounds exciting, but how does it work? In other words, how are the Toaster's inputs emulated? Does *UAE emulate Toasters/Flyers now? (I haven't been keeping up with development)

This is a very early Alpha version. Toaster inputs are not emulated yet. Be thankful that some development has finally started on this exciting Emmy Award winning Amiga add-on card. The Video Toaster is probably the most famous add-on the Amiga platform ever had.


http://mentalfloss.com/article/49562/video-toaster-4000
Title: Re: DiscreetFX Presents - Open Video Toaster: No Amiga VT4000 Hardware Required!
Post by: cgutjahr on April 14, 2017, 06:20:14 PM
Can you provide more information please? I don't get it: AFAIK, the Switcher is used to switch between various video inputs - which are part of the VT hardware, no? What does a software switcher that doesn't actually require the VT hardware actually do, i.e. what does it switch?

The readme seems to indicate you can compile a list of effects (to be used for switching, I guess) and save those settings - that's about it, unless you have a toaster?

Also: what license has the source code been released under? I downloaded the iso you offered a few days ago (thanks), but it doesn't contain any information regarding licensing.
Title: Re: DiscreetFX Presents - Open Video Toaster: No Amiga VT4000 Hardware Required!
Post by: Pyromania on April 14, 2017, 07:49:54 PM
Quote from: cgutjahr;824546
Can you provide more information please? I don't get it: AFAIK, the Switcher is used to switch between various video inputs - which are part of the VT hardware, no? What does a software switcher that doesn't actually require the VT hardware actually do, i.e. what does it switch?

The readme seems to indicate you can compile a list of effects (to be used for switching, I guess) and save those settings - that's about it, unless you have a toaster?

Also: what license has the source code been released under? I downloaded the iso you offered a few days ago (thanks), but it doesn't contain any information regarding licensing.

These are early times in this Alpha software release. There is no way to do hardware switching yet. This software allows to you run the Video Toaster's interface and hopefully soon 3rd party software that came out for the Amiga Video Toaster. Consider yourself an alpha tester with this free software. If you enjoy it and want more features/functionality added send us an e-mail with your requests.