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Started by Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Tue, 11 Aug 1992 01:55
SuperMac's DigitalFilm
Author: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 01:55
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 01:55
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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 Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00
RE: SuperMac's DigitalFilm
Author: mcohen
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:54
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:54
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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? /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | \ / \ / | | / \ From the Desk and Mind of Mitch / \ | | /\ /\ | | \ / MCohen@Vax.Clarku.Edu \ / | | \/ \/ | | Any opinions expressed are clearly someone else's! | \__________________________________________________________________________/
Re: SuperMac's DigitalFilm
Author: Stefan Hartmann
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 20:19
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 20:19
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In <11AUG92.14545837@vax.clarku.edu> mcohen@vax.clarku.edu writes: >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? >/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ >| \ / \ / | >| / \ From the Desk and Mind of Mitch / \ | >| /\ /\ | >| \ / MCohen@Vax.Clarku.Edu \ / | >| \/ \/ | >| Any opinions expressed are clearly someone else's! | >\__________________________________________________________________________/ Hi, as it seemed you were going to hit every door on the MAC exhibition, you may have seen Quicktime for win3.1 on the PC ? Is it already out ? Can we on the PC have a look at Quicktime video clips under win3.1 or OS/2 ??? Anybody who knows is welcome to drop me some mail. Best regards Stefan Hartmann. email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de -- ************************************************************* * Stefan Hartmann This is how to contact me: * * EMAIL: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de * * Phone : ++ 49 30 344 23 66 FAX : ++ 49 30 344 92 79 * *************************************************************
Re: SuperMac's DigitalFilm
Author: jstern
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:33
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:33
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In article <1992Aug11.135536.10002@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes: >I picked up a press release for SuperMac's DigitalFilm product off AppleLink >a couple of weeks ago. Anybody know what the advantages of DigitalFilm are over the New Video EyeQ DVI stuff? Why would I want to pay $6000 for DigitalFilm, when I can pay $4500 for the EyeQ authoring system? Also, right now there's not playback only board for DigitalFilm, whereas there's a $2500 playback EyeQ board. I asked this of the folks who were showing DigitalFilm in Boston, but they played dumb about it... Thanks, Judy Stern Instructional Technology Program UC Berkeley jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu
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