Pro video production on Amiga?

[leirbag28]

@orb85750

Don't listen to some of these People.

The Amiga can do 480i  1440 x 480 (its called Super HiRes mode)
Just put it in Overscan

But this mode is best suited for Slide SHows and Overlaying Graphics, lower Thirds and animated logos over Video with a Genlock.

Listen Carefully: Get SCALA MM300, 400, or InfoChannel 500 and a SuperGen SX genlock and a CHROMAKEY PLUS if you can get it.

All Cheap.  You will be amazed!  and YES you can do DIGITAL Video (Not internally) but externally with Amiga Hardware and a 3CCD Digital8 or MiniDV Camera that has S-Video input.

this allows you to professionally record Amiga's output as well as the Video that is being Genlocked onto professionally in Digital Format. You can then Edit it further if you like with iMovie. (I try to d everything on the fly in Amiga)

@bloodline
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Digital Video work requires Hispeed Harddrives, Powerful CPUs and 32bit GFX all of which never made it to the Amiga.
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Wrong.... Digital Video only requires a Digital Recording Device... both for genlocking and Recording a Master of all Amiga's output.......it doesnt have to be an INTERNAL Harddrive in the Amiga...it cna instead be external like a DV Camera or Deck with S-Video inputs.


@orb85750

Look at this Video I did with an Amiga 1200 with Genlock, ChromaKey, SCALA MM300, and Converted www.digitaljuice.com bakgrounds. The Dancers I hired.  No Special Video Card....just an A1200 with a Blizzard 1240 and 128mb RAM (will work the same with 16mb)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hEbs6FX0cM

[leirbag28]

it should be working....it works for me....just play it right on YouTube

anyways i prefer you Don't download it, as the dancers didnt want this up on YouTube.

[leirbag28]

@stefcep2

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Very Nice. Goes to show that often its lack of talent and creativity thats the limiting factor, not necessarily the hardware or software you use. So what exactly was done on the A1200? I'm assuming the background moving images were, but what software did you use to animate the bacgrounds?
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The Animated backgrounds are Running in SCALA MM300 in Anim8L format and HAM8.  They were NOT created on the Amiga.... But I do hae other backgrounds they were in some of my videos. The ones in that video I purchased from www.digitaljuice.com  <-----highly recommended.  They Started in the industry by Creating Toaster Flyer Motion backgrounds. They still support the Toaster Flyer is some ways.


THe video was done with Dancers dancing infront of a Bluescreen........then the Amiga's ChromaKey Plus, and Supergen SX  can add aany Amiga Graphic behind the dancers and whereever there is the Color Blue on the screen. This is done instantly and live and recorded to DVD on the Fly or DV and then transfered to DVD via FireWire (My Standalone DVD recorder has FireWire input.

I worked at a Club as a VJ (Video Jockey) using my CD32/SX32 Pro at the time, throwing up and mixing visuals live on the projector screens for 4 hours straight non stop!  gotta have a darn lot of content. But luckily I have the SUPER rare MindEYE for the Amiga.  Generates Visuals on the fly (kinda like WinAMP or iTunes Visualizer but more 8-bit looking). Elan Performer and SCALA is what I mostly used to throw Visuals up Quickly.

Elan Performer was Amiga's Motion Dive Tokyo in the 80's.