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Dear Reader,

this is a request for information/advise/expertise experience from a
newcomer to the topics of this group. 
Background: We are going to setup a first project in the Multimedia area.
Knowledge about available hardware is low. As a result we need to have
Hypermedia applications on PC basis, with integrated videos and sound. There
must not be a video-disk or something the like used in the resulting
application - therefore we need videos to be compressed in digital format on
a harddisk. 
Additionally we have a group here, that wants to work in the hypermedia area
on a MAC/QuickTime basis. 
A feature we need also is to cut new films out of digital videos and put
them back out of the computer.

We welcome any information about available hardware/software and other
hints (including where to get -in germany if possible- from our experience
dealers in dortmund are not well informed in dortmund..)
Actually we have the following questions:

what is the status of VideoMachine - which features will hard and software
offer?

Is there something comparable to Quicktime on PC basis (which would best
work together with hardware data compression of viodeo)

is there a way (standard format) to port videos in digital (and compressed
if possible) format PC <-> MAC(QuickTime) -what are the implications on
soft- and hardware we should buy?

Thanks very much in advance.
I'll summarize the results, of course.

tom.
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dettmer@ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
phone: +49-231 755 6323, FAX: +49-231 755 6555
Thomas Dettmer, Dortmund University, Computer Science I
Post Box 50 05 00, W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany