Video Toaster (1990)

[luigi90900]

Chunk. Mmmm Toast!

[charlessmileyvideo]

It was impressive for the time. Even to this day, I see text- crawls on Windows based "infotainment" LCD screens in stores and supermarkets that are glitchy and jerky.

The Amiga had a very good real-time OS that made smooth video crawls possible way back then. I can list a bunch of companies that never got Windows to reliably work with serious, real-time multitasking applications for their product development back then.

[nirvanafrik]

Sony Vegas 1.00

[alienhddna]

we could had youtube back in the 80s if we want it

[ChristopherSmith2010]

1595$? ....*too ebay*

[ChristopherSmith2010]

now we have shitty windows movie maker.

[shinjiseiko]

I love toast! I love video! video toaster, meh.

I kid. I kid! so amazing. amiga changed my life!

[Nvidiaguides]

I'm still amased by this, and it's 20 years old.

[Raunchola]

whoah... i just learned that the Video Toaster came with 45 Installationdisks... aah, good ol' (disc-changing)times :)

[Raunchola]

intense what the Amiga could do as a serious multimedia-tool back 20 years ago! Still got my A500 ;)

[notanfningain]

i just used to drool over this kind of hardware, still do.

[toranamunter]

@HRHShawnPendragone you are talking complete shit. I really dont think you should be taking part in computer related discussions, you wont impress anyone just throwing around numbers and words you don't understand.

[mesostinky72]

Absolutely mind blowing for the time.

[cm79ca]

They are both cute.... forget the toaster,,, give me them!!! WooF!!

[02daft]

fucking rOCKSSS!!! newtek it's great, it's independent!, those lightwave screen , amazing!!

[jcdinkins]

The video toaster was ahead of it's time. Even today it can still hold it's own to standard def rendered video from much more recently created applications - with much less memory and processing power. The guys who put this thing together were geniuses.  The Amiga was a beast too.

[rtbvhsrip]

Did Video Toaster exist for PAL systems?

I need some cheap way to do live video editing (not rendering!)

I am currently struggling and the only thing i have is an old SONY monochrome framestore and lumakeyer device and some self-built crappy character and graphics insertion generators (based on EPROMs, shift registers, etc)

[BrianAStier]

The complete package.

[javachipman]

indeeeeeeed

[persiacom]

All this stuff that we now take for granted, it all began here. It may not look like much today, but no Mac, no PC could do any of these video tricks back then. Amiga died and it still took a good five years for Mac and PC to overtake them.

[NeverwaY]

I remember when the Video Toaster came out.. i was blown away. I know at one point they werent talking about creating a stand-alone unit, i will have to check that out and see what happened with it.

[tkoizumi]

lol... now kids with webcam is a star... thank you amiga for bringing youtube

[khisanth75]

Wasn't Babylon 5 cgi stuff done on Amiga Toasters?

[carbonKitten]

If I remember right Babylon 5 and seaQuest DSV cg animations were done in the beginning with NewTek's LightWave 3D using one of the very first low-budget network rendering solutions called also something like Video Toaster... I read an article about the making of seaQuest many, many years ago that told modellers were using A4000s and sending the render jobs to a cluster of 20 A2000s which processed one single frame (or field) in about 6 minutes. But as said... not sure. ;)

[jkeelsnc]

The Amiga was quite a machine in its day. Its too bad it didn't become more mainstream than it did. A Multitasking, Multithreaded operating system that could run from floppies and use less than 4MB of RAM comfortably. I'd like to see M$ do that! hahahaha :)

[jingling30]

@jkeelsnc Profoundly said.

[smiljanicn]

Unbelivable, i am an Amigan.

[jimsimac]

You know what else is unbelievable? My dad knew Tim Jenison before he went on to create the Video Toaster.