Digital Video - way back when
One of my hobbies is audio and video effects. I use a DPS “Perception” Digital Disk Recorder with over 2.5 hours of Component Video Storage.On the audio side I use a Mackie 1202VLZ with a 96 kHz LynxOne Studio audio card. If ya got time check out the following 250Kbps video streams. You’ll also find other streams throughout the web site.
Best damn indie karate movie you’ll ever see!
Below: Cool commercial produced for a school project:
I produced this Sound Blaster commercial for a community college project. Budget=$0.00. The 30sec commercial was shot with a Panasonic 456 and run through VidTech Scanlock on an Amiga 2000 for a composite effect and then finished on a 486 (that’s right, a PC 486) with a PAR (Personal Animation Recorder) by DPS (Digital Processing Systems) using Razor Pro editing software. Oh, yeh, that was in 1994… Digital Video on 486. The teacher absolutely did not get it, but the class screamed, yelled, and clapped. Effective? I’d say yes.
P.S. I know, that’s not even a Sound Blaster Card, just something from my junk pile.
These are some of the software packages I currently use… and own: Adobe After Effects, Premiere, Video Action Pro, Razor Pro, Transjammer, Imagine 3D, Lightwave 3D, Animation Master, Scala Multimedia, Acid Pro, Crystal 3D Impact Pro and Macromedias Director.
I’ve built a few Digital Video Workstations and Video Servers for myself and other people including Discreet Logic’s edit* systems, Pinnacles Targa 2000 and 3000 systems, Matrox DigiSuite systems, DPS systems, including SDI and 1394 systems. The high performance SCSI arrays used are by Rorke Data and Medea. Many, many Seagate Cheetahs. Most of these systems sported dual Zeon processors and dual monitor setups. In the near future I will be talking about these systems along with my very first very cool video server I built, ya… it’s a PC too!
