February 8, 2004

Video Toaster - open source

Back in the dim recesses of computer pre-history, there was a wonderful machine and operating system called the Amiga. One of the key advantages was that the hardware was very 'television friendly" in that it could record broadcast quality TV, generate it and play it back. In 1991, a couple of people at a company called NewTek wrote the "killer app" for the Amiga called the Video Toaster. For about $5K for the hardware and software, you could replace about $250,000 worth of dedicated video editing gear. Now (as they say in the review): "the Amiga Video Toaster allowed anyone that could afford to buy a car get into video production." The source code for this software has now been released into the public domain. The link for this is here The forums for the various modules are here Very cool to see... The code was written for the proprietary Amiga Operating System and hardware but it should not be long before trees are spun off for other platforms. Posted by DaveH at February 8, 2004 4:30 PM