From: mue@piis10.joanneum.ac.at (Heimo MUELLER (IIS))
Subject: VIDEO MACHINE
Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 08:51:50 GMT


What do you think about the functionality of the "VIDEO MACHINE" ? (compared to
products like Newteks Video Toaster)

           Haimo


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       Functionality of "VIDEO MACHINE" as announced by FAST Electronics


Video Machine (VM) is a desktop video controller for the PC/Mac

o on/off line editing for A/B roll editing

o the VM  digities 2 input video signals (4:2:2 format) and synchronice these
  with two built in TBC's. The two digital images can be modified by digital
  effects and combined with a digital keyer/mixer/bue-box. Finaly the result is
  converted to an analog video signal again.

             +-------------------------------------------+
             | +-----+  +---+ +-------+ +-------------+  |
  IN 1  -----|-| A/D |- |TBC|-|effects|-|frame buffer |  |
             | +-----+  +---+ +---+---+ +-------------+  |
	     |                    |                      |
             |        +-----------+----------+   +----+  |   S/Video/Composite 
             |        |digital keyer/mixer/bb|---|D/A |--|-----
             |        +-----------+----------+   +----+	 |   Out
	     |                    |                      |
             | +-----+  +---+ +---+---+ +-------------+  |
  IN 2  -----|-| A/D |- |TBC|-|effects|-|frame buffer |  |
             | +-----+  +---+ +-------+ +-------------+  |
             +-------------------------------------------+

o 2D video effects in software: zomm, slides, curtain-effects, shrink, thumbles,
  etc.

o chroma keying, luminace keying

o antialaising for titles, support for alpha channel

o Input: Composite, S-VHS, YUV (optional)
         PAL,NTSC, SECAM

o Ouput: Composite, S-VHS, YUV (optional), RGB (optional)	   
         PAL,NTSC, SECAM

o It is possible to combine different video standards in the editing process.

o Supported timecodes: VITC, LTC (read/write)
                       RCTC, Rapid Timecode of GSE (read)

o Generates EDT (Edit Descision List) in SMPTE format. Converters to CMX, Sony,
  Ampex systems.

o with an additional digital recorder/player (compression board and xy GByte
  disk) it will be possible to perform non-linear offline cuts. (the output is
  then a EDL for the control of a analog linear online system)

o broadcast (?), commercial video quality

o price: about 6000-....   US$  

o VM will be shipped in Sept. 92 in two versions

  A. for "video user"  with an additional interface box holding 
     three RS422 (!!),
     S-VHS/Composite Video Input/Output,
     Sync-Input, etc. connectors,             and
      
  B. for "computer users" with only S-VHS/Composite Video Input/Output. In this
     case the VCR controlling is done by PC's/Mac's RS232 interface.
	 
	     
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All of the above statements are extracted from FAST information material about
the VIDEO MACHINE. Fur further questions please contact FAST Electronic directly
at

		     FAST Electronic GmbH.
		     Landsberger Str. 76
		     D-80000 Muenchen 2

		     Tel.: ++() 89/50206-0
		     Fax.: ++() 89/50206-199 

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Heimo MUELLER-SEELICH                 | e-mail: mue@piis10.joanneum.ac.at
Institute for Information Systems     |         mueller@joanneum.ada.at
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia