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i <br />• * <br />% <br />i <br />» <br />}. <br />♦« <br />I <br />] <br />» <br />\ <br />r< <br />• I <br />I <br />I ^« <br />1 <br />*>< <br />I. <br />I • <br />I ■! <br />>: <br />8D <br />P"^ —. < <br />Thurscay/Vav 9 "991 Star Tribunp <br />Spotlight/Computers <br />Toaster Condaocd from page ID <br />.l>reid that was being toasted. Even <br />■when the product ’s true nature be* <br />tcame known, the toaster name stuck. <br />■!CMrge Johnson, president of Alpha <br />Video, said his company is betting <br />'that the Video Toaster can help cre­ <br />mate a new “desktop video" market <br />:that wilkcatcb on in the same way as <br />!thc “desktop publishing" market, in <br />which personal computers print pro- <br />'fessionaUlooking newsletten and <br />‘.other documents. He said the prims* <br />ry desktop video customers writ be <br />'spools, corporations and indepen* <br />;dent video producers. <br />• <br />iSerious home video users can do <br />•aome*speciai effects work with the <br />,*Video Toaster if they have both a <br />’videoT’cairtera to play uped images <br />«intothe'Toaster and a VCR to record <br />!the Toaster ’s output <br />More, sophisticated special effecu <br />workTequircs a SIS.OOO package of <br />.equipment that includes the Video <br />•Toaster. Still, even that appears to be <br />^Cheaper than ofher special effecu <br />tModucts. <br />A year ago Business Week said the <br />Video Toaster turns the Amiga com ­ <br />puter “into a studio-quality video- <br />effects machine as capable at gear <br />normally costing S60,000." <br />In February, PC magazine said that <br />the Toaster-Amiga combination <br />"brings to the PC most of the same <br />functionality at professional video <br />editing and switching equipment thatig <br />costs from 10 to 50 times the price.' <br />Paul Montgomery, a NewTek vice <br />president, said the Video Toaster it <br />cheaper than other special-effects <br />equipment because it was created by <br />enhancing the existing video technol ­ <br />ogy in the Amiga computer. 'Diat was <br />far less expensive than building a <br />video special^ffecu product from <br />scratch, he added. <br />Yesterdayi demonstration provided <br />plenty of eye-catching specif effects. <br />A woman made her TV image appear <br />to .hatter like glass. Later the disai^ <br />peared from a TV screen, onlv to <br />rematerialize a bit at a time as if the <br />had been beamed down by the Star­ <br />ship Enterprise. More conventional <br />features tupehmpoaed text over the <br />TV picture or made credits scroll <br />acrou the screen the way they do at <br />the end of a movie. <br />Animation also is one of the Toast ­ <br />er’s video tricks, and in the demon- <br />ttration*it showed a car frying over <br />San Fmciaoo's Golden Gate Bridfe <br />and a futuristio-looking spaceship <br />heading toward Earth. <br />I <br />NewTek also showed an MTV music <br />video by pop singer Todd Rundgren. <br />which Montgomery said was made <br />entirely with the Toaster. In the vid­ <br />eo, images of Rundgren float around <br />the screen. <br />Mon^omery predicted there will be <br />growing derna^ for products like the <br />Video Toaster because of vidco<am- <br />era sales, more business and educa­ <br />tion use of videotape and the TV <br />show “America’s Funniest Home <br />Videos." . .. <br />"This is the start of a revolution." <br />Montgomery prediaed. “Within five <br />years, this tedinology will be com ­ <br />monplace."" <br />^s«’» »•/ttadn/haek <br />^ i ^ • <br />I * <br />« • r. <br /># m <br />? . * <br />I V <br />* % %*• <br />•K* <br />^ - '•*. .*1/ kM <br />* ^ . <br />a V <br />^INTEREST! <br />n EQUAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS! <br />NO DOWN <br />PAYMENT! <br />With Light <br />-Save <br />•1 <br />lllllpwi <br />^709 fleq.«*«.oo ne-803 <br />uw A» szs ■ Rying Erase Head ■ 2-Lux <br />nw «sw«ui. ^ Accasaortoa <br />mmsrs <br />gift <br />IDMS!