Posted by TonyP on 09/18/05 02:58

AnthonyR wrote:

> Yes, It is a shame what happenned to Amiga and also how newtek didn't do as
> well on the PC side
> as all us Toaster owners had hoped.
> They are actually selling a complete product now called the TriCaster,
> available at videoguys of all places,
> http://www.videoguys.com/tricaster.html

Yeah... the PC toaster with it's uncompressed video offered a lot when
it first came out. But now, with the price and quality of NLE's
dropping, NewTek I guess was caught in a rock and hard place.
I personally don't need a live switcher.

> For $5,000 a complete staion in a box with live switching etc, like the
> original toaster but
> I would have preferred a simplier AGP type card, or 64bit PCI slot and
> software for
> around $1500 since I already own 2 powerful PC's that i built myself and
> don't want
> to be tied to proprietary hardware ever again.
> Maybe the software only solution of LE6 is the way to go?

I ran with a hardware NLE (DV500) and it served me well. But I decided
this time to not go that route and choose Liquid because it was software
based. The faster the computer, the faster the rendering, etc. outside
of it's realtime operation.

>
> TonyP, I didn't know about the offshore Bahama money bleeding, no wonder!
> Has anyone written a book or made a movie on it yet, would be a nice story.

Yeah. I was an AVID (no pun in tended) Amiga person. And when it went
belly up, the information started to come out has to the hows and whys.
Dave Haynie had a video out called the "Deathbed Vigil" about the last
days at Commodore.
Amazing how a company with so many forward thinkers could end up gone.

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