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From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: SCALA MM and my Fairy Godmother FIX/WISH LIST
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:40:42 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <petter.0a3f@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org> cbmehq!cbmnor!pnilsen!petter@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.064248.6654@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland) writes:
>> I want the text to wipe in from the bottom and wipe out the top on a
>> fixed background, just like StarWars and Superman did for about 10 minutes.
>>
>> Anyone else know whether/how this is possible?
>
>That will be harder than you think, the program would have to leave the
>background unchanged which is quite a problem in itself. No, I haven't seen
>single program capable of this.
>Cathy, does AV Pro do this ?

AV Professional does not have a specific transition to do this.

You can simulate it using AmigaVision's Text/Variable objects. Text/Variable 
objects will hold one line of text each. These objects can be assigned a path. 
This means you can make the line of text follow a path up the screen. You can
have several of them moving up the screen at the same time.

Using Text/Var objects with paths will not give you that very smooth 
scrolling that you would see from a real transition.

Cathy
              ============================================
              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
              Authoring System Support Specialist        
              Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
              ============================================
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Professional
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:49:26 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED


>Catherine Godfrey - CATS (cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:
>>In addition, a freely redistributable [AmigaVision] Runtime Module has
>>been included

In article <C0IAD0.HKI@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci) writes:
>Does this mean I will have to pay $99 dollars to get the freely 
>redistributable Runtime Module...?
>...
>A suggestion for C=. If I am not able to use the runtime player without 
>upgrading to AV Pro, how about making the player available at an
>affordable price?

	Kevin, Cathy did say "freely distributable."  Unless the meaning of
the phrase has changed, that means the player may be distributed free of
charge.  I strongly suspect someone will upload it to an FTP site, or maybe
Commodore will give a copy to Fred Fish (as they did the RKM examples).

	This is my speculation based on Cathy's words.

                                                        Dan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland)
Subject: Re: av & scala mm
Organization: VisionSell Multimedia
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:20:25 GMT


>....I dont have scala mm. Amiga vision plays my anims back way too
>slow. Now, My question: Does the new amigavision give you control over frame
>speed when playing back anims? I am sure that scala mm probably does.

Scala does.

>But what audio capabilities are available through scala mm. 

Pretty reasonable if you have fairly static presentations you can 
spend time synching to a sequence of single songs (CDTV, sampled sounds,
noisetracker/protracker mods). With presentations that
need continuous music backing you can run into some strife. eg. inserting
a slide into the sequence or changing any slide timings will cause the
music track to finish at a different position. In practice, I have 
found using one of the good players from Fish through the SCALA mm 
CLI or Arexx ports works pretty well. (refer my FIX/WISH list on another
thread for more details).

>Will either of
>these programs now read anims straight from hd instead of having to load it
>into memory?????????? I would like to upgrade from my current situation to a
>more versitile mm program. Any feedback please! bob

Scala mm has a neat utility which converts standard Anim files to
a format that has the dual function of indexing them to make
them readable directly off a HD and/or converting standard ILBM's (eg. DPaint)
to 16 or 32 bit chunks for improved run-time performance (in some cases
though, this has doubled the size of the Anim file). You can specify 
whether you want to run the anim in memory or HD when you slot it in. It
seems to work well. 

And there's another great thing - the significance of which is not 
really detailed anywhere. You can easily setup a standard SCALA slide overlay
to appear dynamically on the anim on the first or last slide. This means
you can create a generic anim library, and easily vary them with overlays 
(eg. logo or text) depending on the presentation context. This is worth 
its weight in gold - think about it.

				---

If you want the quickest and friendliest authoring interface around, 
with power presentation capability, go for Scala mm.

If you want flexible interactive screens with programming flexibility, 
inbuilt database, or properly callable modules, go for Amiga Vision 
(but I've only seen the specs for the new Pro, this relates just to
a comparison version, 1.7).

If you want the best of all worlds, mix and match them together!!!!
You can get AV Pro+Scala mm+CanDo combined with change from $1000, 
still under the price of even decent single authoring programs in
the Mac or PeeCee world!!

Jest me own opinyon of course, for the little its worth.

Regards.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Professional
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:55:47 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Catherine Godfrey - CATS (cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:
> Commodore Announces the Availability of AmigaVision Professional
> 
> In addition, a freely redistributable Runtime Module has been included,
> enabling flows created in AmigaVision to be played back without loading
> AmigaVision.

> Current users of AmigaVision can upgrade to AmigaVision Professional for
> only $99.00, plus shipping, by contacting CommodoreExpress TM at
> 1-800-448-9987.  Users will be required to return their original
> AmigaVision disks to CommodoreExpress within ten days to receive the
> $99.00 upgrade price.

Does this mean I will have to pay $99 dollars to get the freely 
redistributable Runtime, Module or will it be legal/possible to use the
Runtime Module without upgrading to AmigaVision Professional?

I have a hard time justifying spending $99 dollars on the upgrade when the 
current version of AmigaVision is meeting my needs and all I want to do is 
distribute a few educational flows I have written. It hardly seems worth 
distributing them if I don't have a runtime player. 

A suggestion for C=. If I am not able to use the runtime player without 
upgrading to AV Pro, how about making the player available at an
affordable price?    Say $20-$30 dollars. 

As a side note, I did see the the demonstration of AmigaVision Pro at the 
WOC in Pasadena and the improvements/additions look great, but I can't 
justify spending the money to upgrade right now.


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From: scott@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Only a runtime player? R U Kidding?
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:40:27 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

	We have been using AmigaVision Pro for four seperate funded R&D
projects and one gimme project for Commodore for some time now and I have to 
tell you folks who don't think it is worth the money to upgrade just for a 
runtime player that is free anyway that the upgrade is *considerably* more
than a runtime player.  It is very much worth the money if your into anything
ambitious with AV/AVPro.  
	I will be showing some of our projects on JAN 17 at the AECT conference
in New Orleans and when I return we eill be uploading several flows on the
NEXUS.ED.USU.EDU FTP site....Please check them out.   

---Scott Hart---
Research Assoc.
Utah State University
Department of Instructional Technology
Laboratory for the Experimental Study of Instruction
(LESIN)




Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland)
Subject: Re: SCALA MM and my Fairy Godmother FIX/WISH LIST
Organization: VisionSell MultiMedia
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:57:01 GMT

In article <petter.0a1u@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org>, petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org (Petter Nilsen) writes...
>In article <1993Jan3.024214.12505@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland) writes:
> 
>> 0. Need El-cheapo SCALA Player Dongle.
>>
>>    C'mon. A$500 for a full copy of SCALA MM to get another key (dongle)
>>    for player-only versions to run on delivery machines is really off.
>>    Sure, we like the software, but not that much! Howabout a SCALA
>>    player encrypted to work with its own key for $25 or something for
>>    registered SCALA MM owners? (BTW, the new AmigaVision Pro has a
>>    general player now for nix).
> 
>There are available an extra dongle for ScalaMM for NOK 1500,- which
>translates to about US $200. This was the information I got when I called
>them up some time ago. I don't think this option is generally advertised.
> 

My local distributor told me something similar yesterday ...  I have to buy the
Upgrade kits to get another dongle, at something around this exorbitant price.


>> 6. SCALA goes to the movies?
>>
>>    We seem to need a VERTICAL scroll text wipe a'la Movie credits?
>>    Am I missing something??. Aint no instructions anyway.
> 
>One of the page wipes will do the trick. 'A->B' it's called...
> 

Thanks. Will this scroll text off the top of the screen 
continuously? (I'll try it). 


>> 11. Fix the SCALA Anti Anti-Alias.
>>
>>     Ze anti-alias colour button, she no work! I presume the idea is
>>     to select the colour you want to antialias to, no?
>>     So, wotz the secret?
> 
>Have you turned on the Anti-Alias and chosen an AA level ?
> 
Thought I did, but I'll have another go.

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From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Professional
Keywords: AmigaVision
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:25:41 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <C0IAD0.HKI@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci) writes:
>
>Does this mean I will have to pay $99 dollars to get the freely 
>redistributable Runtime, Module or will it be legal/possible to use the
>Runtime Module without upgrading to AmigaVision Professional?

You may use AmigaVision Professional's runtime player without buying 
AV Professional itself. This player will run applications written in 
AV Professional and AmigaVision version 1.7.

Cathy
              ============================================
              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
              Authoring System Support Specialist        
              Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
              ============================================
From: jheald@hydra.unm.edu (Jerry Heald )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: new CDTV gadget?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 01:33:31 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.unm.edu


In the Jan. 93 issue of NEWMEDIA magazine, Creotec Corp. of Irving, TX
ran an ad for their VidDISC CDTV Authoring System. Their ad said that a
CDTV with an AVM graphics card was required. Supposedly AVM stands for
Commodore's Advanced Video Mode graphics which let users display 64,000
color graphics.
What do you suppose this is all about??
Jerry


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From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Professional
Keywords: AmigaVision
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:13:52 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1ik7g1INNbhv@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> fritsch@fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de (Lothar Fritsch) writes:
>cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS) writes:
>: Commodore Announces the Availability of AmigaVision Professional
>[...] 
>: Current users of AmigaVision can upgrade to AmigaVision Professional for
>: only $99.00, plus shipping, by contacting CommodoreExpress TM at
>: 1-800-448-9987.  Users will be required to return their original
>: AmigaVision disks to CommodoreExpress within ten days to receive the
>: $99.00 upgrade price.
>
>What do 10 days mean? 10 days from this posting?

You have 10 days from the time you order your AmigaVision upgrade
to send the disks in to Commodore Express.

>And how will I upgrade in Europe? CBM germany didn't offer AV1.7 at all,
>and I think they won't have AV2.0 ready for a while, but sending my AV to
>the US and sending back a whole package will be quite expensive :-(

The upgrade policy I posted was given to me by the Commodore sales company 
here in the U.S.  It is valid for AmigaVision owners who live in the U.S.  

To find out the upgrade policy for a country, contact the Commodore sales 
company for that country.  In Germany you can contact:        
               Wolfgang Trompetter
               Commodore Buromschinen GmbH
               Product Marketing
               Lyonerstr. 38
               6000 Frankfurt/71
               Germany


Cathy
              ============================================
              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
              Authoring System Support Specialist        
              Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
              ============================================
From: petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org (Petter Nilsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: SCALA MM and my Fairy Godmother FIX/WISH LIST
Date: 5 Jan 93 03:23:13 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmnor!pnilsen!petter@cbmvax.commodore.com
Organization: Ultima Thule Software
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1993Jan3.024214.12505@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland) writes:

> 0. Need El-cheapo SCALA Player Dongle.
>
>    C'mon. A$500 for a full copy of SCALA MM to get another key (dongle)
>    for player-only versions to run on delivery machines is really off.
>    Sure, we like the software, but not that much! Howabout a SCALA
>    player encrypted to work with its own key for $25 or something for
>    registered SCALA MM owners? (BTW, the new AmigaVision Pro has a
>    general player now for nix).

There are available an extra dongle for ScalaMM for NOK 1500,- which
translates to about US $200. This was the information I got when I called
them up some time ago. I don't think this option is generally advertised.

> 6. SCALA goes to the movies?
>
>    We seem to need a VERTICAL scroll text wipe a'la Movie credits?
>    Am I missing something??. Aint no instructions anyway.

One of the page wipes will do the trick. 'A->B' it's called...

>    b. Outline fonts are a potential speed death trap. Could these be converted
>      to bitmaps optionally at the time the script is created, automatically
>      calling FOUNTAIN or whatever?

Outline fonts are pre-calculated before run-time as far as I know.

> 11. Fix the SCALA Anti Anti-Alias.
>
>     Ze anti-alias colour button, she no work! I presume the idea is
>     to select the colour you want to antialias to, no?
>     So, wotz the secret?

Have you turned on the Anti-Alias and chosen an AA level ?

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 ////// Disclaimer: These opinions are ALL mine !               | /
////// ->    Save the whales -- collect the whole set !     <-  |/
From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Professional
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:19:36 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Keywords: AmigaVision

In article <hgm.726244767@news.ncsu.edu> hgm@ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) writes:
>cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS) writes:
>
>>Commodore Announces the Availability of AmigaVision Professional
>
>How about being able to run CDTV specific software on a CDROM based Amiga?

No, that would require special code that for now is only found on the CDTV. 

Cathy
              ============================================
              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
              Authoring System Support Specialist        
              Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
              ============================================
From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: New Amiga Multimedia FTP Site
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:44:15 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1993Jan1.221601.62385@cc.usu.edu>, scott@cc.usu.edu writes:
>>>>>>>>>>NOTICE<<<<<<<<<
> 
> There is now a new FTP site just for Amiga flavored multimedia.
> 
> 	I'd like to focus mostly on foreign language training and ESL; but
> anything significant will be gladly accepted for review.
> 	The FTP address is NEXUX.USU.EDU and will be on line by Jan 10, 1993.
                           -------------

I think Scott meant to say NEXUS.USU.EDU ...  that is the correct address.

> Any questions can be directed to me (Scott Hart) at the department of
> INstructional Technology at Utah State.
> 

James D.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: colins@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Colin Stuckless)
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Pro Upgrade Question
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:04:53 GMT

In article <8860@orbit.cts.com> marv@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Marv Gordon) writes:
>AV Pro, although announced in November, has not actually been released yet. 
>But don't worry, it's very close :)

  So close that my dealer received it a couple of days ago. But, this is
in Canada. Not sure if it's available in the U.S. yet.

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV & No Manuals Gripe
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:44:37 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1993Jan5.193855.21769@microware.com> leeg@microware.com (Lee Glenn) writes:
>
>I don't know about everyone else, but I think it really says something when
>an amiga user can figure out how to use CDTV without consulting the help
>function!  :^)

Well, there indeed are some severe differences in the CDTV and Amiga user
interface: The right button on the CDTV remote control (which corresponds
to the right mouse button) works as an Undo or Step Back key, which is
normally done by the Esc key on normal Amiga applications; while on the
CDTV, the Esc key is small and serves as a Help key. You see, this is not
at all obvious for a standard Amiga user, perhaps more for a total newbie.
So you cannot draw the conclusion that this could show flaws in the Amiga
user interface structure, as I suspect after reading your post.

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From: marv@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Marv Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Pro Upgrade Question
Date: 3 Jan 93 21:45:03 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

AV Pro, although announced in November, has not actually been released yet. 
But don't worry, it's very close :)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: SCALA MM and my Fairy Godmother FIX/WISH LIST
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 21:19:07 GMT

In article <petter.0a1u@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org> cbmehq!cbmnor!pnilsen!petter@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
>In article <1993Jan3.024214.12505@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> king@snoc01.enet.dec.com (Randall King, Sydney, Aussieland) writes:
>
>
>> 6. SCALA goes to the movies?
>>
>>    We seem to need a VERTICAL scroll text wipe a'la Movie credits?
>>    Am I missing something??. Aint no instructions anyway.
>
>One of the page wipes will do the trick. 'A->B' it's called...

  Okay, thanks.  I couldn't find it in the manual.

  By the way, I haven't tried it yet, but does the Scala 500 player
  they distributed with the sample scala demo disk work with Scala MM scripts?

  Clare
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