Except in 1992, it wasn't tacky, it was cutting edge to have all those "advanced" effects in one relatively cheap and easy to use device that interfaced to your home computer... Seriously, a lot of home-user standard video editing packages still don't feature half this stuff. One of the main feelings of retro tack that comes off this is the fact it was recorded on an NTSC VHS tape, which affords it a certain softness, grain and colour-washout - and the rather simplistic-for-2013 3D renders.
20 years on and the effects look a bit dated and cheesy (especially those silhouettes and spinning cubes), but being able to do this in the early 90s on consumer grade hardware was a bit special.
Maybe I'll sound like someone who lived in the woods for 20 years... but this looks so amazing! A few typical 90's effects, and slow rendering, but it's so freaking cool. I'd buy this anytime (if I actually needed it).
OK, some weird trivia (it's 3:30am, and I'm a bit bored) - the first Video Toaster prototype was built by Brad Carvey, who is Dana Carvey's brother (Garth, from Wayne's World). The character of Garth was loosely based on Brad. You can see Garth wearing a Video Toaster t-shirt in Wayne's World 2. That is all. :) There sure are some weird videos on YT nowadays... /watch?v=aDlnqV3npNY
when I get my own video toaster I am going to be the top video editor in west Oklahoma!!! I already make the top auto sales video for Beaver, OK.!!! From there Hollywood will be calling!!!
@Superbatron The Amiga's greatest strength as well as it's Achilles heel is that it worked with analogue video. Most computers (including PCs) use frame buffers for video. The audio equivalent is like comparing a sampler to an analogue synthesizer. The Amiga is the synth, the PC is the sampler. The Video Toaster is a software controlled hardware solution that takes advantage of the Amiga's analogue video system. (and it came with Light Wave)
This is great, but I only have one thing I'm wondering. Some of the effects have jagged edges where it looks like the resolution is causing it. I'm wondering why they don't implement hardware anti-aliasing, I thought it had this...
Really? That's what happened is it? I mean, do you think stuff up and then believe your own bullshit so type it here as fact? The first version of Windows came out in 1985. The first Amiga came out in 1987. So exactly how much did Microsoft pay in your imaginary world?
LightWave 3.0 was a bit slower on the Amiga in raytracing mode than Imagine 4.0, but had significantly better anti-aliasing and lighting effects than Imagine. The slightly higher computing time of LightWave was gladly accepted.
@@MirekFe You misunderstand. The inovation that was the Amiga and it's designers, supporters, users is lost. That the PC can do it now is nothing by comparison. Pity the PC still can't do screens....
"Created Entirely with VT 2.0" They're almost right. You still need two VCR editing decks (one for playback of source tape and one for recording title popups and transitions onto the second tape), three monitors (two for the VCR outputs, one for the video toaster's interface), and a stereo system for adjusting music levels on overlaying it on top of the source video.
Hurts the brain, but in a good way, to realize that this software suite, Toaster, Lightwave produced Babylon 5... and all this was in 1992. Those last frames showcasing the LW interface and performance are utterly cringe worthy and awe inspiring at the same time.
@tanpal333 Fantastic machine I still have an operational A4000/040 and a A500 with a 50mb HD and 4Mb FastRam. Does anyone know where I can get a PSU for a GVP HD, the one that slid on the left hand side of the A500???
MICROSOFT BOUGHT WINDOWS OFF COMMODORE BECAUSE they invented it they had a patent on it so they sold out i had an amiga 2000 and i wore it out wide open it was great back in the year 2000 i bought 1 for 1500 dollars it had point and click windows killer graphics for the time and good speed for a 1 meg game on 3 `1/4 disk drive with a whopping 16meg ram hard drives were just coming out the and pc were obsolete as soon as they came off the drawing board
No, that's just called having a typo because you use a tablet's virtual keyboard. I must've send that before actually checking the contents of the message. Also calling someone names isn't really adult behaviour either if you want to start about 'age limits'. My appologies for my typo and for having offended you or something.
@app0the WinUAE (or UAE if you have a Mac) is one of the best Amiga emulators. However, the only legal way to get the ROMs (required for any Amiga emulator) is by buying the Amiga Forever package - Cloanto (who make Amiga Forever) have the rights to distribute the ROMs. You can probably download the software from some retro Amiga sites, but I'm no expert with the Video Toaster. I have only owned Amiga 600's (both broken) and WinUAE (for my laptop). Long live the Amiga :) &eB
A quick google reveals that the Newtek Video Toaster was a combination of special hardware and software. I have no idea whether you could actually use the Video Toaster with an emulator. Perhaps it would be best to stick with modern day software, unless you get your hands on the original hardware? *shrugs* &eB
Hmmm.....nope, I'm dealing with one little freak who apparently believes he can actually convince people about this stuff. You're very funny though. " illitaracy and punctionation"? You've made two spelling mistakes in three words there... where are these videos you've been making then? Hurry up. How about telling me where I live? That would be a nice demonstration of your l33t hacking skills for a start.
remember your dealing with cut throat underground hacker world when you talk to me there are at least 1000 or more other people checking you out oh yeah we are not worried about illitaracy and punctionation
I bet it is Check this demo. 060, 50 Mhz. This won the combined amiga/pc demo compo (ASM06). AS THE ONLY AMIGA ENTRY. watch?v=AUXOEfG1LN8&feature=related
@zoidburg111 It was 1992 (see end credits), but the Toaster dated back even earlier than this. This promo was for v2.0 of the software. It was such a shame Newtek never produced a PAL version of the Toaster. Lightwave did eventually become a separate product, however and the OpalVision 24 hardware ended up being king in PAL territories.
@Nvidiaguides one of the cool things was that you could hook up multiple Amiga's to work on rendering the same scene. Such a renderfarm dramatically decreased rendering time. THey must have used something like that to render the 3D scenes for Babylon 5.
Actually Newtek was late to the raytracing game. The original version of Real3D, Turbo Silver, Imagine and Sculpt-Ainimate 4D all had raytracing before Lightwave got it. But when they got it, all bets were off...
Major difference, it lacks path tracing, it lacks light transport, today's raytracing is a whole different beast. Here it just follows mirror like reflections and checks light occlusion for a simple and not physically plausible shading model.
@@SianaGearz People seem to think this is the same "ray tracing" as today despite a factor of maybe ten thousand in relative hardware performance, while also believing that this was used more for local TV than porno production, as if the bikini behind the perky Bond silhouette isn't making it entirely clear where the principle revenue stream originates.
@@cubdukat funny enough it's been so far I've forgot about it altogether indeed! RMC is soon to have a demo of the videotoaster on their channel it seems though, looking forward to it so much
Be nice if someone were finally able to cobble together some kind of Zorro card interface, but I suspect the few who have tried have been stopped in their tracks by whoever owns the rights to the Amiga hardware...
