I totally forgot about the tape-to-tape editing era.... when I
started to produce videos I shot on Hi-8 and did the editing in a
post production suite equiped with Betacam recorders, the only Amiga
computer they used was for titling, using a genlock. Those were the days... :-)
So in what year was Amiga capable of doing NLE (harddrive captured) video?
At 3-10-2010 22:11, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>The Video Toaster did most of the work. It controlled two or more
>professional type tape decks. Effects and transitions had to be
>fairly short due to the limited RAM and storage capacity.
>
>Texas Instruments built some prototypes of a video controller for
>their 99-4/A. It was intended to control video disc and tape players
>and overlay text and graphics. It would've beat the Video Toaster by
>some years, but of course wouldn't have been able to do things like
>a "shattered" image with motion video on all the broken bits as they
>rotated and fell. (I bet that effect took several hours to render on
>an Amiga with a toaster.)
>
>Going forward some years, the Media 100 hardware worked in a similar
>fashion. The computers of the time didn't have the processing power
>to work with broadcast quality (640x480 30 FPS for NTSC, 640x576 25
>FPS for PAL) without assistance from special hardware.
>
>In the past decade, CPUs have become powerful enough and RAM and
>storage cheap enough that computers don't need any special video
>processing hardware, though with nVidia's current GPUs some software
>can utilize their power to assist.
>
>For several years GPU chips have been made with several times more
>transistors than their contemporary CPUs, but the GPU's have been
>designed specifically for dedicated tasks. The latest GPUs are more
>capable of general tasks and open to running code for things other
>than pumping out pretty pimped-out pixels.
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