Trans fats to be phased out in USA, Amiga edited Film about Trans Fats Update

[Amiga_Nut]

I am very interested in video editing at the moment and also interested in the Amiga but given the absolutely insane prices people are asking for pee yellow coloured 4000/030 machines these days I can never see myself editing analog video using Amigas no matter how nice an experience it is.

The hardware is too difficult to find and the Toaster is NTSC only and Analog so useless for 2/3 of the planet pretty much now.

Digital editing is an awesome concept but sadly needs CPU muscle, something no Amiga can provide at a reasonable cost to make this feasible.

Yes my post has nothing to do with the article, but then the article has nothing news worthy to do with Amigas as no new hardware being key to its production is mentioned

[Amiga_Nut]

You can always have a PAL Video Toaster, you just need to use a transcoder just like the GVP TBC+ or The Progressive Image TBC. Or you can alternatively use non Amiga cheap generic ones you find on auction sites.

With a Zorro II 68030 Amiga and 8 MB of fastmem I was able to do NLE with a Toccata and a Vlab Motion. No need for a power horse.

I understand, and agree that Amiga prices are insanely high, but you can always get good prices if you buy them out of the Amiga community (we have lots of hoarders and quick buck fuc*ers in this community).

There is no way you can convert NTSC video to PAL and not have it look like the terrible broadcast quality of Star Trek The Next Generation in PAL territories no matter how much you spend. Toaster is great for places where you have NTSC but even Babylon 5 DVDs in PAL look a bit ropey to me when stretch to 625 lines

There was two motion JPEG cards I can remember, VLAB Motion is one and P.A.R. was the other IIRC. Never seen either for sale since the 90s when they were reviewed in CU Amiga mag though.

As for getting an Amiga 4000, well that's my own fault for going to bed to 'sleep on it' when I say an 040 base unit only last Xmas up for £299 BIN on ebay which was not yellowed at all. Live and learn eh lol

[Amiga_Nut]

the only thing that killed Commodore was criminally bad management.

More like silly people buying NES consoles and PC AT EGA $5000 'home PCs' if you ask me. The EU side was quite profitable even when they concentrated on the ugly duckling CD32 right to the very end IIRC A 28mhz 020 4mb A1200 with optional PCMCIA CD-ROM drive was the only thing Commodore should have been selling in 1993 FACT. If they had to have a console they should also have spent more than 5 shiny pennies on the styling LOL

There's a lot of reasons why Commodore were forced into bankruptcy by their creditors in the US IMHO but I think the damage was just as much down to some really pathetic coding on most of the games software too..........if Amiga games had the same sort of talented coders and graphic artists/musicians as the Nintendo and Sega games had thrown at them then it would have been a massive struggle in the EU for the poncy Mac and crash-o-rific PC to get a foot in the door of homes this side of the pond (unlike Americans UK computer users wouldn't p1ss on a PC even in the days of 386DX £1000 bundles to be honest).

If only every game was as slick and hardware feature exceeding as the best Amiga games, common in the console world, things could have still been different.

Then again the managers that turned the $60 Commodore TED based computer project into the 'more than the price of a C64' Plus/4 cockup and the monumental disaster technically that the C128 was (which cost more than a 520ST FFS) probably still existed in the time of Medhi 'is he dead yet please' Ali so yeah doomed it was and not just by Doom on PC x86

[Amiga_Nut]

The more of us that leave the less people around to complain when the site gets sold to Butch Latina man-haters.

Why do they have to be butch and why do they need to hate men (as opposed to being incapable of loving them) ?

If Rebecca Linares is on the new Amiga.org I would definitely view the site...even by accident lol

[Amiga_Nut]

i'm sad to see trans fat phased out

Trans fatty acids have been banned for quite a while in the EU I think so they would just use the EU version instead (just as sickly with excessive cinnamon like the US ones don't worry lol)

[Amiga_Nut]

They're just silly in different ways I suspect

[Amiga_Nut]

That's easy for you to say 4 years after the fact. But the truth remains the same. Tedd was the only one that put real $ on the table to acquire the site. Anyone could have outbid him but no one did or even came close. Even the spanish lesbians showed no interest in 2009. Talk is cheap, dollars are real.

If many people fund one item controlling it usually leads to disputes I find.