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I picked up a press release for SuperMac's DigitalFilm product off AppleLink
a couple of weeks ago.

DigitalFilm is an all-in-one, fully QuickTime-compatible card that does video
capture, compression/decompression and display. It does full-resolution,
full-frame-rate video compression and decompression in real time, using JPEG,
straight to/from disk. Simultaneous with video capture and compression, it will
also record stereo audio at up to 44K samples per second (no actual mention of
sample size). The display side of it is based on the same technology as SuperMac's
Thunder accelerated video cards. It will display 24 bits per pixel on screen
sizes up to 17 inches.

The card supports NTSC and PAL for both input and output. It also has S-video
input (no actual mention of S-video output).

The other interesting thing is that the card will come bundled with Adobe Premiere
2.0. This new version of Premiere "produces edit decision lists in CMX format,
provides the SMPTE time-code support professionals require for editing video, and
features a sequencer for rough-edit support."

The price mentioned for the card was US$5,999. The press release didn't indicate
when the card would be released. I gather it was to have been shown at Boston
Macworld about a week ago. Did anyone see it?

I have the press release as a Glue image file. It's only 18K, so I'm happy to
e-mail it to anyone who wants. You can view it either with the AppleLink software,
or with the @$%!# Glue viewer--whichever you've got.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-7-856-2889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
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