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The NewTek Video Toaster is a combination of hardware and software for the editing and production of NTSC standard-definition video. The plug-in expansion card initially worked with the Amiga 2000 computer and provides a number of BNC connectors on the exposed rear edge that provide connectivity to common analog video sources like VHS VCRs.
Kiki Stockhammer (left) at the 2013 NAB trade show. Kiki Stockhammer (born c. 1965) is an American spokesperson.. She became well known in the late 1980s as a trade show "traffic stopper" first doing live demonstrations of the capabilities of the Video Toaster from NewTek.
Brad is the brother of Dana Carvey, who based the Garth Algar character (from the Wayne's World comedy sketches and movies) on his nerdy older brother. [6] [7] [8] Dana wears a Video Toaster "test pattern" T-shirt during a scene in Wayne's World 2.
The company found widespread fame and started the desktop-video revolution by releasing the Video Toaster, an innovative system for low-cost video switching and post production. [7] [8] The company was featured in high-profile magazine articles such as Rolling Stone and was also featured on NBC Nightly News. In the early 1990s, a proliferation ...
After the lecture, Alan and his friends visited the toaster article on Wikipedia, where one of his friends, Alex, edited the article to replace the lecturer's friend's name with Alan MacMasters, claiming he invented the toaster in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1893. [1] [2] [3] A year later, Alex contemplated the extent to which he could escalate the ...
Early users of the Video Toaster included Todd Rundgren, Herbie Hancock, Penn and Teller, U2 and Oingo Boingo. [17] Montgomery's leadership and marketing skills helped NewTek and Play obtain major national press attention for its products, including feature stories on NBC Nightly News and an article in Rolling Stone Magazine .
Video Toaster, a live video-production suite from NewTek used on Amiga; EMD AEM-7, an electric railroad locomotive commonly nicknamed Toaster; Toaster, in Microsoft codename jargon, a hardware equivalent of fictional entities used in documentation and sample code as placeholders to be redefined by third-party developers
One of the most notable hardware items of the era is the NewTek Video Toaster system which became popular in the 1990s for amateur and commercial desktop video production of standard-definition broadcast quality video, consisting of tools for video switching, chroma keying, character generation, animation, and image manipulation.