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Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s by gregsadetsky on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:49AM (#27344031)
The Video Toaster “Revolution” video demo’ing the Toaster’s features is beautiful, inspiring (consider the year / tech leap) and is full of gentle self deprecation. The voice over is by Ken Nordine, famed vocal jazz musician.

Recommended, even for the first few minutes!

https://youtu.be/OtYLx6z2eeg

Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s by jamal-kumar on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:09AM (#27344243)
My favorite example of video toaster has got to be tribe called quest's (ft busta rhymes) classic 'scenario'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TLWqn82J4

they made the entire user interface embedded in a music video back in the early 90s, fun stuff

Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s by gregsadetsky on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:36AM (#27344467)
Thanks for sharing, it’s really great!
Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s by gmueckl on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:55AM (#27344665)
It's funny that the appended video for the System 2.0 update contains shots that seem to be very early Babylon 5 scenes. Not sure if these are earlier versions of the models or deliberately altered ones. The copyright date on the video is a year earlier than the show.
Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s by ChainOfFools on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:16AM (#27344862)
they are early models indeed, used for the pilot and for storyboarding with stills. J. Michael Straczynski worked closely with NewTek while developing the show, and contributed a lot of improvements and suggestions to the first editions of Lightwave (included with the toaster..)

The exterior 3D shots were 100% Amiga generated, at least for the first few seasons. Though they did farm the bulk rendering off to Alphas using ScreamerNet (also a NewTek platforms controlled by Amigas) almost as soon as they became available.

other fun Hollywood tie is that the chief engineer of the toaster was Brad Carvey, the brother of Dana Carvey

Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s by bitwize on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:15PM (#27349136)
Brad Carvey was the inspiration for Garth Algar. In Wayne's World 2, Garth can be seen wearing a Video Toaster T-shirt as tribute.