Mac video goes upscale

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Radius, Pipeline Digital, and Abekas showed new digital-video products for the Macintosh at the Macworld Expo in January 1995. Radius's VideoVision Telecast rackmount add-on box for its VideoVision Studio card provides Betacam SP component I O as well as composite and S-video, SMPTE EBU time-code support, and professional-quality audio connections. Radius has licensed the Macintosh operating system and will be one of the first Macintosh 'clone' vendors. Pipeline Digital's Studio Recorder software is used with VideoVision Studio and Telecast for frame-accurate recording and re-recording to decks with 9-pin RS-422 Sony-protocol connectors. Abekas's Diskus digital disk recorders record, store, and play 30 or 60 seconds of uncompressed 10-bit CCIR-601 digital video; the recorders are available with a Premiere plug-in for the Macintosh that converts Diskus contents into editable Premiere clips. The 30-second Diskus version costs $17,400, and the 6-second version costs $22,400.

Design and construction, Radius Inc., Desktop video software, Digital video, MacWorld Exposition, RDUS, 1995 AD, Product Information, Pipeline Digital, Abekas Video Systems Inc., Radius VideoVision Telecast (Video processing equipment), Radius Studio Recorder (Desktop video software), Abekas Diskus (Video processing equipment)

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Trinity upstages Video Toaster at NAB

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NewTek and Play Inc both introduced new PC-based video editing systems at the Apr 1995 National Assn of Broadcasters show. Play, founded by former NewTek engineers, is offering the Trinity nonlinear editor and production switcher. The hybrid analog/digital device offers amazing special effects and a low price. Trinity is an external device with an open architecture. The base system, selling at $5,995, includes a character generator, dual-channel still store, chroma keying and two time-base correctors. Buyers also enjoy substantial paint and animation effects, and timeline editing and compositing software. The optional Warp Engine provides real-time 3-D effects. NewTek's PC-based Toaster for Windows is available now at $7,995. The NewTek hybrid is also full of features, including 3-D modeling, animating and rendering software. The system includes a character generator, single-frame animation recorder and eight tracks of digital audio and nonlinear editing software.

Computer hardware, Product introduction, Hardware product introduction, Graphics accelerator/display board, Display adapters, Newtek Inc., Play Inc., NewTek Video Toaster for Windows (Graphics accelerator/display board), Play Trinity (Graphics accelerator/display board)

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The NewMedia 1996 Hyper awards

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The best multimedia-oriented or -related hardware, software, technologies and services are selected. The criteria include technical excellence and innovation. The overall best software product is the Netscape Navigator 2.0 Web browser. The overall best hardware product is Iomega's new 1GB Jaz removable disk drive. Sun's Java Web-oriented scripting language is selected as the best new technology. It is important to understand that underlying these and other outstanding products and technologies are significant advances in IC, fast bus and system technologies. Of particular importance are buses with far higher bandwidth capabilities; ever-faster Pentium, PowerPC and SPARC microprocessors; 32-bit operating systems and software; and multiprocessing systems.

Electronic computers, Computer storage devices, Achievements and awards, Multimedia systems, Web browser, Web browsers, Netscape Communications Corp., NSCP, Removable-media drive, Removable media drives, IOMEGA Corp. (Roy, Utah), Review of past year, Business conditions, Multimedia Technology, Product evaluation, IOMG, Top rating, Iomega Jaz (Removable-media drive), Netscape Navigator 2.0 (Web browser)

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