The Amiga Desktop Video Workbook [Laser printed] [Hardcover]

Jay Gross (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1990

Welcome to the world of video. Please bring your alphabet. TBC, ENG, EFP, DVE, EDL, VTR, SEG... This is but a small taste of the  alphabet soup that bombards you as you peer, puzzled, through the opening door of opportunity into desktop video.

The video business embraces a number of disciplines, and with its vast complexity it's a world which has remained out of reach of mere humanoids. That is, until the current invasion of its hallowed halls by a band of dedicated computerists now called "desktop" videographers. The emergence of the concept of desktop video forms a turning point for the video industry, which has only reluctantly adjusted itself to a new breed of videographer, to a new level of expectations in the art and technique of the medium, and to a new marriage of small computer technology with the traditionally analog world of video production, editing, and manipulation.

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From the Author

The video business embraces a number of disciplines, and with its vast complexity it's a world which has remained out of reach of mere humanoids. That is, until the current invasion of its hallowed halls by a band of dedicated computerists now called "desktop" videographers. The emergence of the concept of desktop video forms a turning point for the video industry, which has only reluctantly adjusted itself to a new breed of videographer, to a new level of expectations in the art and technique of the medium, and to a new marriage of small computer technology with the traditionally analog world of video production, editing, and manipulation.

This book, one of the first on the subject of "desktop" video, showed what the video world was like, and had been like prior to the invention - by none other than Amiga - of desktop video. In this book, I tried to cut through and cut out the video industry's excruciatingly abecedarian jargon. This is a book about the Amiga as a video studio in a box, about how to put it to work for you to make your way in the world of video, and about how to deal with the mechanics of opening your own video business, if you want to. I decrypted the buzzwords and endeavored to bring it all down to the desktop - or should I say "Workbench" - where you can
get at it...

Note: As published by MicroSearch in 1990, the book came with an Amiga-formatted floppy disk containing freely distributable programs, utilities, and video test graphics.

                    Jay Gross
                    Lexington, South Carolina, October 1990

About the Author

Jay Gross is a cynical humorist, a former newspaper reporter and editor (but I've reformed!) and a magazine editor, as well as a four-times-published non-fiction author, a freelance writer and a commercial photographer. He's also a geek (not planning to reform anytime soon), and most recently a novelist. He lives in and hails from South Carolina, but admits to having lived in other places.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Amigadget Pr (September 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879211009
• ISBN-13: 978-1879211001
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,444,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jay Gross is a cynical humorist, a former newspaper reporter and editor (but I've reformed!), a magazine writer and editor, a non-fiction author, a freelance writer, and a commercial photographer. He's also a geek (not planning to reform anytime soon), and most recently a novelist, with two published novels to his credit. A native of Aiken, South Carolina, he's called central South Carolina home since the 1970s, but admits to having lived other places, even North Carolina. He loves cats, books, art and classical music.