Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Computer Video (1992)" video.

  1. The Video Toaster was groundbreaking, but it was analog-only. Within just a few years, video production would move to digital, and leave the Toaster behind. Apple’s QuickTime was pretty cool: from the beginning it was supposed to be a generalized architecture for dealing with time-based data, i.e. not just audio and video. There were options for MIDI and text tracks, and custom media handlers that programmers could create. Unfortunately, the suits decided that they had to monetize this somehow. So the “QuickTime Pro” thing came in, and it all went downhill from there.
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  2. 16:08 Premiere was originally called “ReelTime”. It was written by Randy Ubillos at SuperMac, and bundled with the VideoSpigot as you see here. Then SuperMac transferred ownership (and the developer) to Adobe, who renamed the product Premiere. I had the version of the VideoSpigot for the Mac LC. I think it could capture 160×120 resolution at about 15fps, Ah, in those days we could only dream of 320×240 resolution ...
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  3. 20:50 Oops, the player software has failed to keep the video overlay aligned with the GUI window ...
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  4. 25:23 That overlay player window having to always be in front to hide the fact that the video overlay cannot be clipped ...
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  5. 27:51 “1-800-DO-MY-GUI” Heh.
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