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[rodspurethoughts]

🎬 How the Video Toaster Changed the Game for Creators

Image Created with chatGBT Before Final Cut Pro, before Adobe Premiere, and long before TikTok filters and AI-driven editing—there was the Video Toaster. In the early 1990s, this revolutionary piece of hardware and software combo cracked open the world of video production, giving indie creators and small TV stations access to tools that once cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. What Was the…

🎬 How the Video Toaster Changed the Game for Creators

[taylorlynn-art]

🌙 “Team Angel” 🌙

10/30/2020 ✍🏻 Digital drawing

Do you know about the American Sailor Moon that never was? It’s quite laughable, and yet I really want to see that pilot episode that’s floating around out there!

I included an animation cel pic from the cartoon. Unpopular opinion here: I like the designs! 😅

I love that we get a little more diversity. But don’t get me wrong, the show is super cheesy and even though I’m sure I still would have loved it as a kid, I’m grateful we got the DiC dub instead (also cheesy, but had awesome music).

Anyway, I wondered how they would look in the anime style, thus this drawing was born! I haven’t seen hardly any fan art for this version, and I like doing stuff you don’t usually see often.

I added details of my own, like the chokers, earrings, and cyborg Mercury (because I love Cyborg Saturn from the manga/Crystal).

What do you think about the cartoon that never happened?

[contac]

[josie-and-the-pussycats-2001]

Revolution - A Demonstration of the Video Toaster (1992)

“The Video Toaster can take you beyond the realm of effects. Way beyond into the realm of video illusion.”

[koney-scanlines]

AmiGA 2000 vidEO tOAstER

[mr-sinjin-smythe]

NewTek Video Toaster

Next Step (1991-1996)

Richard Hart profiling the NewTek Video Toaster on his technology show ‘Next Step’ that ran on The Discovery Channel.

[swarmik]

LightWave 3D running on SGI Indigo2

LightWave 3D started its life on Amiga as a part of the NewTek’s Video Toaster editing system. It evolved in a good stand-alone 3D modeling software and was very popular. However, when Commodore filed for bankruptcy (1994) nobody in the professional market believed in bright future of Amiga. NewTek needed to find a different OS for its products which resulted in support for Windows NT (x86, Alpha) and SGI IRIX (MIPS).

LightWave on SGI was not a very long story. There were only few versions released. The main problem was in price/performance ratio. SGI hardware was expensive and usually it didn’t make much sense to buy it for generic software that is also available for other CPU/OS platforms. LightWave offered way more performance for the same price on Alpha-based Windows NT workstations which was a preferred option for some time. One year later the market shifted to Intel Pentium Pro CPUs with similar performance and broader software support (Windows NT could run only 16bit Intel-x86 software on Alpha).

I have LightWave 3D 5.6 installed on SGI Indigo2 with 250-MHz MIPS R4400 CPU and the rendering performance is only slightly better than on my 133-MHz Pentium MMX-based Toshiba laptop. NewTek apparently didn’t optimize the program to take advantage of SGI hardware.

[contac]