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I would like to hear from folks who have used Ivory based machines for
video work.

> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 10:00:46 +1000
> From: Tom Ellard <tome@next.com.au>
> 
> >What would you recommend for a cheap but effective video processor? 
> 
> Well, the words CHEAP and VIDEO are actually oppposites. The only faster wa
> to lose money is have a girlfriend.
> 
> The Blue Screen Thing in video is Chroma Keying - that means you have to mi
> two video signals together and superimpose one of them - which in turn mean
> you have to synchronise them. Videotapes have electronic sprockets just lik
> film, they have to be synchronised before they'll mix right.
> 
> Traditional solution: 2 time base correctors, mixing console with chroma
> keying = very expensive. What you can find today are all-in-one mixers such
> as the Panasonic series - the MX10, MX12, MX30, MX50. They take at least two
> videos and mix them together with the synchronisation taken care of. The
> MX10 is the cheapest, it fades b/w two composite signals and that's it. The
> MX50 will do just about everything but it's going to cost you. How much I
> cannot say because in America you pay such a different price to here. Ring
> Panasonic.
> 
> You can do all this with a computer too. You capture the video and treat it
> and fire it out again. Let's say you're a hobbyist, and you have a Mac, both
> true I think. Then you need a Video Spigot 2. and a copy of Premiere. The
> spigot will capture your videos and Premiere will compile the effects. The
> result will be choppy. The problem is with the Mac that there's no middle
> ground - the professional version of this - the Radius Video Studio is again
> very expensive and we're talking Powermac and SCSI2 disk array.
> 
> Here's my honest advice. A Pentium 100 with 16M memory and a PCI SCSI card,
> Soundblaster 16, a few G of storage. FAST's MOVIE MACHINE 2 will allow you
> to chromakey two videos real time and will also capture full screen 60 field
> per second for you to create digital effects. They give you Premiere and
> Photoshop with the card and you also can create/view MPEG video.
> 
> Mail order from New York it'll cost you very little.
> 
> Tom Ellard. Severed Heads.
> The Chocolate Pizza of Music.