Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!purdue!decwrl!mejac!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser
From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ouch in advertising
Message-ID: <9174@gryphon.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 88 09:40:32 GMT
Sender: news@gryphon.COM
Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA.
Lines: 45

rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes:
>
>Just thinking back on the killer demo contest, I don't believe that
>I saw anything at all produced using the Zuma TV Show or the Aegis
>(presentation-video) thing.  Are these two packages not as good as
>The Director (I have Director, but have not taken any time to learn
>it thusfar, and I don't have either of the other two).  Do these
>other programs NOT come with a freely redistributable player, or
>are they just too hard to learn, or what?  I am curious -- fellow.
>
>Rob Peck


Hiya Rob. Yup both the Aegis Presentation Thingy (you thinking of
Lights Camera Action? or VideoTitler/ShowSeg?) and TV*SHOW come with
freely distributable players.  HOWEVER (underline that) neither one is
really capable of the kind of power and flexibility of The Director. 
HOWEVER (put a yellow line over that) both of them are much easier to
use since, basically, they have user interfaces and The Director
doesn't.  It's a trade-off.  The Director can do these wonderful
"blit this brush over there" type off stuff that really nothing else
on the market is capable of.  In other words, you couldn't duplicate
something like the Probe Sequence or RGB with any other piece of
software of which I'm aware, but you COULD duplicate the output of
most ANY other package with The Director.

There was a wonderful Killer Demo from last year's group of entries
by Robert Wilt called "Killer" in which he lampooned other makes ov
computers vis-a-vis the Amiga to a soundtrack of Beatles tunes. As far
as I can ascertain, Wilt created Killer the "old fashioned way" - he
programmed it from scratch and didn't use any off-the-shelf "demo creation"
package.  This is something that probably COULD be duplicated with
The Director, given enough time and knowledge of its hundreds of
commands. 

TV*SHOW gives the novice user just about the easiest and most painless
way of creating very good looking slideshows with simple brush moves
that I've ever seen.  It has a terrific interface you can learn in 
about 10 minutes.  But I doubt anyone will be creating "Killer Demos"
with it... 

Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone.  Plink: CBM*HARV
UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser
INET: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com
<---open            Push down while turning           close tightly--->