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Any Toaster users in here?
« on: January 04, 2008, 01:55:33 PM »
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Re: Any Toaster users in here?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2008, 03:19:16 PM »
Sweet! I learned video prod back in college on a Toaster. Then had a nice little setup with a 4000 after college doing weddings and commercials and stuff.

Recently, I started re-editing all my old college videos in Premiere and After Effects to fix up a few things. However, one thing that has eluded me are a few of the old Toaster wipes. Specifically, the organics: smoke, fire, pour, and clouds.

I've been keeping my eye on Craigslist and eBay hoping to get a Toaster for nostalgia's sake, and to use those wipes. But they all get expensive quickly. And for what I'd like to do with it, it's just not economically feasible.

Would you be willing to help me out? What I'd like to do is transition from solid black to solid white using the 4 different organic wipes I need. Can you wipe from black to white using those wipes and save that as an MOV or AVI? I could then use them as a luma track matte in After Effects to create old Toaster transitions.

Let me know, and thanks in advance either way!
 

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Re: Any Toaster users in here?
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2008, 03:41:38 PM »
That Pixelan stuff looks cool, but apparently it's only for Movie Maker.
 

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Re: Any Toaster users in here?
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2008, 09:36:14 PM »
Nice setup! I'd love to tinker around with one of those babies again.
 

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Re: Any Toaster users in here?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2008, 01:22:54 AM »
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Did you give up on buying some VT hardware then?


Oh no, not given up. I'm holding out for a price I can afford. It'd be a blast to use the Toaster again.
 

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Re: Any Toaster users in here?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2008, 08:59:17 PM »
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What can you afford?


Anyone else here interested in Video Toaster User magazines?

I also have other Amiga and a few Video related magazines I want to sell.


Oh man! I used to love reading VTU magazine. I was always looking for tips and tricks and tutorials.

As for what I can afford, well, I am a big poster on another forum and posted about the Amiga asking some of the old timers about the system and what I should look for. One of the nice members there offered me his 3000, once he digs it out of his closet. On the surface, it sounds like he'd send it to me for just shipping.

Once he finally gets around to it, if he wants a lot, I'll ping you again. For now, I'm hoping it's cheap! :)
 

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Re: Any Toaster users in here?
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2008, 01:54:12 AM »
Sweet! Thank you in advance. It's been a couple of weeks. But I'm certainly not going to rush this guy since he's being so nice.