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Hi.  ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) wrote a note 
about SuperMac's digital film.  Briefly, its a VERY loaded multimedia board.  
30fps full-screen (640x480) quicktime capture & playback.  44KHz stereo sound. 
24-bit on up to 17", 8-bit beyond.  Lawrence asked if anyone saw it at 
MacWorld.

Yep, I saw it and had a chance to "play" a little.  VERY impressive.  They say 
it will ship in October, list $5995.  Yes, it will ship with Premier 2.0.  
Also with QuickTime 1.1, which some say is required for full-screen grabs 
(some say it isn't required, whichever).  At a rather lossy compression rate, 
30fps, 24-bit, 640x480 movies are about 30MB a minute.

Premier 2.0 was shown all over the show.  Looks great.  Plenty of new F/X, a 
great text handler, etc.  Pros can use it to create edit decision lists, then 
automate editing of real video.  

A similar product (to digital film) was pseudo-introduced by RasterOps.  They 
showed QuickPak in a back-room at Bayside.  There was no armed guard at the 
door, so I dropped in.  They also served very good chocolate chip cookies.  
The board was a daughter-board for their current capture boards (24stv, 
24xltv, mediatime, etc).  It will allow for 30fps, 640x480 quicktime grabs.  
Nobody really knew when it would ship for sure, but "in the fall" was muttered 
a few times.  Also no definitive price; those at the RasterOps booth either 
told me $995 or $1995.  One other note - the board demo'd in the back-room was 
doing 24-bit on a large screen with sound, meaning they'll probably introduce 
a 24xltv that does sound.

Wouldn't it be great if MacWorld was held once a month?


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