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[News] New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & PegasosANN.lu
Posted on 22-Sep-2002 05:26 GMT by Bill Panagouleas18 comments
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DiscreetFX Announces Wild Flyer For The Amiga Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos systems® FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DiscreetFX Announces Wild Flyer For The Amiga Video Toaster Flyer® Our beta testers have reported no major problems with the latest build of Wild Flyer so we will be shipping it shortly to our Video Toaster Flyer customers. What is Wild Flyer you ask? It is a Front End application to the very powerful and often misunderstood program Wild Fire. Wildfire 7 is a ADO animation sequencing, 3D effects, transitions, and animation package by Andreas Maschke. It can be compared to SGI Flint or Flame systems and it is capable of creating amazing 3D effects by mapping video sequences.

The bad news about Wild Fire has always been the steep learning curve and very difficult to understand user interface. Wild Flyer changes all this. It uses all the power of Wild Fire as its background render engine. Wild Flyer gives this amazing German application an easy to use storyboard interface. All actions happen within the Video Toaster Flyer screen. Users can just drag and drop the ADO animation sequences within their Flyer and Wild Flyer takes care of the rest.

Imagine the power of an SGI Flint or Flame system but on your Amiga VT Flyer! And it is very easy to use unlike these high end SGI ADO solutions. WF attains its speed by using the power of a PowerPC processor as its rendering effects engine. The PPC processor does not have to be in your Amiga. It can be a networked Amiga One or Pegasus computer. If you already have a Phase 5 CyberstormPPC card in your Amiga this will also work but will be slower. One of our beta testers reports on the SharkPPC card he is getting near real-time ADO Effects from Wild Flyer.

Wild Flyer features include

1. Height-field deforms, cubes that automatically unfold and fold again.
2. Lightwave object support.
3. 3D magnet effects, 3D transitional morphing, unlimited mathematical deformations, twists, sphere mapping, twirling, water transitions, perspective transforms and more!
4. Easy to use interface that opens on the Video Toaster Flyer screen.
5. All effects are pure 24bit, no pixelizing or jaggie edges.
6. Full support for all Amiga PowerPC solutions.
a. Amiga One running Amiga OS 4.0
b. Pegasos running MorphOS 1.0
c. SharkPPC
d. Cyberstorm PPC running PowerUP
e. Another PowerPC solution that has not been announced yet.
Minumum system

Amiga 4000 with CyberstormPPC card, Video Toaster 4000 & Flyer card, 18MB RAM, 1 GB Harddisk.
Recommended system
Amiga 4000 with Mediator PCI busboard and SharkPPC card, Video Toaster 4000 & Flyer card.

Or Amiga 4000 with Video Toaster 4000, Flyer card and Network card that supports TCP/IP networked to Amiga One or Pegasus computer system.

***More information comming soon***
If you have questions please contact us @ discreetfx@yahoo.com
Get Wild Flyer and let your Video Toaster Flyer go wild.
Best regards
Bill Panagouleas
CEO
DiscreetFX
Video Toaster & Amiga developer
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 1 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by ID4 - tHe SuRvIvOr - on 22-Sep-2002 04:55 GMT
SharkPPC? You betatesters have the SharkPPC? Really?
I can't believe it, when OS4 team has reported that
they don't have none. ¿¿¿???
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 2 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Teemu K on 22-Sep-2002 05:58 GMT
Yeah!?! Indeed how come you have a sharkPPC? And does it work parallel with AmigaOS 3.9 at the moment?
How about photos of the system in action? :)
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 3 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Kronos on 22-Sep-2002 06:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Teemu K):
A company with a yahoo-email ? Developing and testing on non-existing HW/SW ?
Joke or hoax that is the question.
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 4 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by priest on 22-Sep-2002 06:18 GMT
Fuel to the rumor mill:
"One of our beta testers reports on the SharkPPC card he is getting near real-time ADO Effects from Wild Flyer." ??? How is that done?
"Another PowerPC solution that has not been announced yet." ??? Matay/sonnet? Merlancia? The AmigaNG HW that was announced/hinted by Amiga Inc ???
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 5 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Kronos on 22-Sep-2002 06:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (priest):
No it's a iWin, a PIOSOne with Hombre-chipset, an A/Box wit Caprihina (sp),an A5000,a BoXeR.....
Sorry but this "news-item" is just so pathetic !! Such a development (which would have costed
$$$$$$$) but no Website ? No real info ? But still the want to tell/hint us some super-secrets ?
ROTFLOL
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 6 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Elektro on 22-Sep-2002 06:36 GMT
Yes this will rock! Just as much as that DVD/VGA/holographic projector/monitor/ holodeck thing that was mentioned a while ago...
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 7 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 22-Sep-2002 06:58 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (ID4 - tHe SuRvIvOr -):
They have SharkPPC _and_ secret DCE Microserver test samples! ;-)
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 8 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by ehaines on 22-Sep-2002 14:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Kronos):
It's not like Bill Panagouleas and DiscreetFX haven't been around for
years, Kronos you total dumbass.
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 9 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Franklin Cheney on 22-Sep-2002 17:16 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (ehaines):
...this was hinted at earlier on the VTFML...but
since that ML is mainly serious professionals, and
top-notch video prducers, and truly nice guys who
are willing to help newbies and seasoned veterans
alike...and not just a pond full of mudslinging
trolls..."some" people here maybe will bleet their
skepticism...the truth being that a killer app
will be on the loose for Amigas near you, and sooner
rather than later...
Great work, Bill and all your team!
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 10 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Panagouleas on 22-Sep-2002 17:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Kronos):
Sorry about the confusion guys, my betatester has a Pegasos Betatester not a SharkPPC card. Just a typo on my part. Website is still being developed, sorry I want it to be nice and professional before I let it go up. The url is www.discreetfx.com but it will not be up for a few weeks.
Best regards
Bill Panagouleas
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 11 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 23-Sep-2002 06:26 GMT
Is Wildfire still on sale anywhere?
It would be nice to have a 68k version of this announced software for
use with Amithlon (or even 68060).
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 12 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Panagouleas on 23-Sep-2002 07:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Don Cox):
Don we have tracked down a few copies but we are trying to contact the author in Germany to get more. If he added support for Amithlon and or WinUAE we could also support these systems networked to a Amiga Video Toaster Flyer system.
Best regards
BP
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 13 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Panagouleas on 23-Sep-2002 07:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Don Cox):
We don't really want to promote it as such but Wildfire does support the 68020-040 CPU. It is not as fast as PPC of course but it does work slowly. Our product Wild Flyer is untested on Amithlon & WinUAE systems.
Best regards
BP
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 14 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 23-Sep-2002 08:04 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Bill Panagouleas):
Generally, Amithlon needs no special support. Any program that will
run on an OS 3 68k Amiga with a graphics card will run on Amithlon.
eg ADPro, Image Studio, Image Engineer, TVPaint, Personal Paint,
ImageFX all run.
Imagemaster will not run because it needs an AGA display.
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 15 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Panagouleas on 23-Sep-2002 08:51 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Don Cox):
I would like to test my software with Amithlon but it is not available for sale :(
If Bernie could get it to me I would be glad to make all my developments work with Amithlon.
Best regards
BP
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 16 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 23-Sep-2002 14:02 GMT
Will there be any chance to have this software work with other Video source in the future (TV cards digitizers, USB webcams, Firewire ...) ?
If the software is good it is a pity that only Flyer users (NTSC only) benefits from it.
I'am glad to see video software development on the Amiga.
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 17 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 24-Sep-2002 03:04 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (ehaines):
Just like IWIN? ;-)
New product for the Video Toaster Flyer, Amiga One & Pegasos : Comment 18 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Panagouleas on 24-Sep-2002 05:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Christophe Decanini):
I am always interested in any and all feature requests from customers. E-mail any suggestions or requests you have for Wild Flyer. We constantly strive to improve our software and make it better for our clients.
Best regards
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