I finally got a way to digitize video at home!

This was something I did on my Amiga computer about 20 years ago. It's a 2D animation, done in Deluxe Paint, which was a raster-based paint program with lots of very cool automatic animation features that still haven't been equalled in any PC hardware. It's done at Amiga hi res, which was about 768 pixels wide and 16 colors (no, not 16-bit, 16 COLORS! :lol: )

http://www.inpayne.com/temp/trekdrek02.wmv

It was recorded on VHS 20 years ago with a direct plug-in from the computer, and digitized from the (deteriorating) tape last week with Studio 9.

:lol:

That's what I used to do on the FFG I was on in the USN during my time in the galley--dump garbage off the stern.

Cool animation! Quality is surprisingly good.

Amiga was a great graphics machine! My brother still uses his.

LOL! The humble beginnings of young Adam Quark! Excellent rendering on that.

...This was something I did on my Amiga computer about 20 years ago. It's a 2D animation, done in Deluxe Paint, which was a raster-based paint program with lots of very cool automatic animation features that still haven't been equalled in any PC hardware. It's done at Amiga hi res, which was about 768 pixels wide and 16 colors (no, not 16-bit, 16 COLORS! :lol: )....

Which Amgia did you have?
1000, 500, 2000?

At various points in time I burned cash and had one of each!

Sad how the machine missed it's chance so many times. Star Trek IV,The Voyage Home, OEM-SUN UNIX workstation, etc...

It's done at Amiga hi res, which was about 768 pixels wide and 16 colors (no, not 16-bit, 16 COLORS! :lol: )

Amiga? Amiga?? Get a rope....

Actually, that was high tech at the time...

I started with an A500, then graduated to an A2000.

The 2000 was a desktop computer with separate keyboard (unlike the all-in-one 500). Stock, it had no hard drive, 1MB of RAM, and a burning 5MHz processor. The program you needed to use was loaded into RAM from the floppies (750KB 3.5" disks) every single time you turned the thing on.

I upgraded mine with a "hard card" which was a single plug-in card that held a 25 MHz processor, 8MB of RAM, and a 240MB hard drive (which I never even came close to filling up!)

Which Amgia did you have?
1000, 500, 2000?

At various points in time I burned cash and had one of each!

Sad how the machine missed it's chance so many times. Star Trek IV,The Voyage Home, OEM-SUN UNIX workstation, etc...

But wasn't the Babylon 5 pilot and Seaquest DSV series' CGI done on Amiga's using Newtek's Lightwave and Toaster?

I remember going to a Trek Convention back when DS9 was airing and one of the FX guys was talking and someone brought up using Amiga's and at that time he said the CGI wasn't good enough and that the models were still better.

I loved Eric Schwartz' animations. Almost Disney or Don Bluth style drawing.

If you're interested, http://www.coax.net/people/erics/

I started with an A500, then graduated to an A2000.

The 2000 was a desktop computer with separate keyboard (unlike the all-in-one 500). Stock, it had no hard drive, 1MB of RAM, and a burning 5MHz processor. The program you needed to use was loaded into RAM from the floppies (750KB 3.5" disks) every single time you turned the thing on.

I upgraded mine with a "hard card" which was a single plug-in card that held a 25 MHz processor, 8MB of RAM, and a 240MB hard drive (which I never even came close to filling up!)

Yep, I did that on my 2000 and ran a BBS on it for a couple of years before the internet.

But wasn't the Babylon 5 pilot and Seaquest DSV series' CGI done on Amiga's using Newtek's Lightwave and Toaster?


Yup! The B5 production people worked hand-in-hand with Newtek to develop the Video Toaster and LightWave. We have B5 to thank for the the development and refining of that kind of CGI effects. When them young folk nowadays rank on early B5 as having "crappy effects", it's like ranking on the Wright Brothers for not coming up with a trans-atlantic jetliner for their first try.

When them young folk nowadays rank on early B5 as having "crappy effects", it's like ranking on the Wright Brothers for not coming up with a trans-atlantic jetliner for their first try.

Or ranking on TOS for the "cheesy" FX...

Great stuff John. Nice to know there were other Amiga users out there. I had a 500 then a 1200, which had a hard drive and extra memory.

When them young folk nowadays rank on early B5 as having "crappy effects", it's like ranking on the Wright Brothers for not coming up with a trans-atlantic jetliner for their first try.My problem with B5 was an impression that its effects were actually too good for the set design -- always seemed like they belonged to two different shows. Reminded me of the crappy Space Mutiny movie that ran on MST3K -- the one with "effects" that were just clips from Battlestar Galactica. :freak:

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