Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer “Digital Micronics”
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Manufacturer Digital Micronics / Applied Magic, USA | Date 1994 | Amiga A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro III | Autoconfig ID 2129 / 6 |
- non-linear editing system
- true online broadcast quality component non-linear editing
- LSI Logic full-motion JPEG chipset:
- L64735 block DCT processor
- L64745 JPEG coder - stand-alone lossless DPCM codec, dynamic Huffman
- L64765 raster-to-block and colour-space converter
- 27 MB/s on CCIR601 frames
- 4:2:2 digital video resolution, 640×480 to 768×486
- realtime video capture (requires Fast SCSI 2 controller and hard disk)
- NTSC: 525 horizontal lines @ 30fps (60 fields)
- PAL: 625 lines @ 25fps (50 fields)
- selectable JPEG compression ratio from 15:1 to 70:1
- frame-by-frame recording is also supported
- the Sunrize sound boards are fully integrated using SMPTE time code for simultaneous digitizing and editing of both audio and video tracks
- realtime video display and recording to tape
- SMPTE time code reading and writing
- NTSC - PAL conversion
- component I/O breakout box
- inputs: component video (Y, R-Y, B-Y), SVHS, NTSC, PAL
- outputs: as above + RGB
- 32 bit DMI bus header - allows direct connectivity with the Vivid 24 graphics coprocessor card
- component digital 4:2:2 format throughout the board
- software transition effects (cuts, wipes, fades, dissolves, etc.)
front side
- DigitalBroadCaster.pdf
User's Manual
1417 kB
Manufacturer Digital Micronics, USA | Date 1991 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 2129 / 1 |
- RTG graphics card
- Texas Instruments TMS34010 @ 60 MHz graphics processor
- up to 1280×1024 non-interlaced
- up to 2048×2048 interlaced
- 256 colours from the 16.7 million palette
- 16 colour overlay
- two hardware cursors
- up to 4 MB video RAM - 32 ZIPs
- Resolver A - 1 MB VRAM, 1024×768, without double buffering
- Resolver B - 2 MB VRAM, 1600×1200, with double buffering
- Resolver C - 4 MB VRAM, 2048×2048
- up to 1 MB overlay video RAM - 8 ZIPs
- up to 8 MB DRAM for resident applications (2 MB standard) - 16 ZIPs
- 2048×2048 can be displayed even on a Commodore 1950 monitor that is 800×600 only
- 3 BNC output connectors
- SAGE (Standard Amiga Graphics Environment) driver
- X-Windows driver for Amiga Unix System V Release 4
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Manufacturer Digital Micronics, USA | Date 1992 | Amiga A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro III | Autoconfig ID 2129 / 2 |
- rendering engine
- TMS 34020 @ 40 MHz graphics processor
- up to 2048×2048 interlaced resolution in 24 bit
- up to 1280×1024 non-interlaced
- 32 bit pixel depth (including 8 bit alpha channel)
- up to four TMS 34082 coprocessors (optional)
- 32 bit math / graphics coprocessor
- 3D vector support and rendering engine
- parallel processing capability
- 40 MFLOPS per piece - 160 MFLOPS total
- 25,000 shaded polygons per second - 100,000 total
- 512 kB static RAM per coprocessor
- up to 16 MB video RAM (4 MB standard)
- 4 MB: 1024×1024 non-interlaced, 1024×1024 interlaced
- 8 MB: 1280×1024 non-interlaced, 1600×1280 interlaced
- 12 MB: 1280×1024 non-interlaced, 2048×1536 interlaced
- 16 MB: 1280×1024 non-interlaced, 2048×2048 interlaced
- the video memory can also be used as system memory by the Amiga
- up to 8 MB DRAM for resident applications (4 MB standard)
- upgrade modules:
- single graphics math coprocessor upgrade kit (1× TMS 34082) with 128 kB of 32 bit static RAM module (max. 2 per board)
- double graphics math coprocessor upgrade kit (2× TMS 34082) with 256 kB of 32 bit static RAM module (max. 1 per board)
- video memory upgrade kit - 4 MB VRAM (max. 4× per board or 3× with video encoder module)
- program memory upgrade kit - 4 MB DRAM
- broadcast quality digital video encoder (NTSC, PAL, SVHS)
- allows high resolution graphics to be taken directly to video tape retaining their broadcast quality
- supports NTSC or PAL and SVHS
- genlocks the Vivid 24 using either a sync generator or any external video source
- plugs into the same location as a video memory module
- video effects generator (for use with the video encoder module)
- provides input for two video sources
- special effects
- allows the mixing of both sources based on the Vivid 24 computer generated graphics
- SAGE (Standard Amiga Graphics Environment) driver
front side
back side
- Vivid24.dms
Install Disk
sage.library v36.2 (1.5.1992), vivid.library Vivid 38.4 (16.7.93), Vivid24 Tweek v1.04
531 kB