V-Lab Motion & MovieShop

[merlinkv]

Hi

I want to start some little Amiga video productions with my V-Lab Motion & Toccata boards.

I have the Movieshop 4.3 software but I read about some updates available 4.6, 4.9..... Anyone knows where is possible to get this updates?

Also the help/guide of MovieShop software is very small.... a good manual is available?

My idea is to use this hw:

- 68k at 66Mhz
- System RAm > 400MB
- V-Lab Motion 1.2
- Toccata
- Two UW-SCSI HDD's one for Video, other for Audio

Any special recommendation?

Thanks

 

[LTAC]

Perhaps you already have these links...

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54862

ADFs of MovieShop 4.3 (latest) on my webserver here:
http://amiga.serveftp.net/temp/MovieShop_4-3.lha

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=200188&postcount=3

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=265

I think that updates 4.6 & 4.9 & 5.0 are only for AMIGA clone (Draco only?).

Any special recommendation?

...buy a Draco

 

[salaxi54]

@merlinkv: I think it's like LTAC said, you need a Draco to use the latest versions, or -from what i heard- a dongle of some sort for Amiga..
My Draco setup includes an early version of the MovieShop, but the documentation is in German.
I could start scanning, but dunno if it would help anyone!
http://www.amigahellas.gr/uploads/photos/643.jpg

 

[merlinkv]

@LTAC

Thanks for the links m8.

...buy a Draco :-D

Is a good option , but I don't want to make Studio Productions on my A4K, only some home-quality amiga videos

For HD Video production I use my PC-Tower.....

Thanks again & Best wshes

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@salaxy54

My Draco setup includes an early version of the MovieShop, but the documentation is in German.
I could start scanning, but dunno if it would help anyone!

Thanks for the offer m8. But my knowledge of German languaje is .....

I know is difficult but I'm looking the English version (I don't know if exists).

Best wishes

 

[salaxi54]

Check my reply to the wrong thread! (VLab)

 

[jaesonk]

For the Amiga with VLab-Motion, you can use MovieShop 4.x versions. MovieShop5.x is for DraCo hardware only. I believe that the latest version for use with VLM NTSC systems is MS4.8, and for PAL it's MS4.9x.

MovieShop files and documentation can be found here:
https://www.mediafire.com/?d0ecmh1ne7gc3

MovieShop5.x requires an activation code that is based on your hardware serial number. One person's MS5.x won't run on another system. Since the software is so old and you can't get new keys from MacroSystem, it would require someone with coding skills to hack it.

 

[jaesonk]

When setting up your MovieShop edit system, remember that your MovieShop audio & video partitions MUST be within the first 4GB of any drive used. If you go above the 4GB, MovieShop will wrap around to the start of the drive, overwrite your RDB, thus wiping all drive structure information and your partitions. MovieShop & VLM bypass any AmigaOS system patches you may have that permit AmigaDOS to break the 4GB barrier.

I'm using an externally accessible CF drive for MovieShop partitions. You can then use a different CF card for each project. If you use an 8GB card, you can have your MovieShop A/V partitions on the first 4GB and have any other project related files on an AmigaDOS partition in the upper 4GB of the CF card. By default your project & timeline info is saved in a sub-folder within the MovieShop application folder, but this can be changed to any other AmigaDOS folder in the settings. Having everything on one removable CF card is convenient.

I set up 3.5GB for video & 512KB for audio on one card. You could of course use two cards and get a full 4GB for video and 4GB for audio but even with setting the JPG quality to 75%, usually 3.5GB is plenty for me. I'm using a 50MHz 060. With my system, i can peak at 85%, but 75% is pretty solid without playback/record errors. The ZORRO-II bus is the real bottleneck on quality levels. Remember that the JPG quality levels are fixed once you start a project.