From pk-asdg@cup.portal.com Wed Mar 17 18:26:48 1993 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.1) id AA02961; Wed, 17 Mar 93 18:26:47 PST Return-Path: Received: by nova.unix.portal.com (5.65b/4.1 1.234) id AA29884; Wed, 17 Mar 93 18:26:46 -0800 Received: by portal.unix.portal.com (1.492) id AA11720; Wed, 17 Mar 93 18:26:44 -0800 Received: by hobo.corp.portal.com (4.1/4.0.3 %I%) id AA04965; Wed, 17 Mar 93 18:26:42 PST To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu From: pk-asdg@cup.portal.com Subject: ASDG Press Release Lines: 71 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 18:26:41 PST Message-Id: <9303171826.1.4782@cup.portal.com> X-Origin: The Portal System (TM) Status: RO ***** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***** NEW ADPRO JOINS AMIGA'S MOST IMPORTANT APPLICATIONS In an exclusive first, ADPro now reads and writes images in the NewTek Video Toaster Framestore format with full broadcast color and fidelity. Taken together with a direct memory link to Deluxe Paint 4.6, ASDG's recent ADPro upgrade ties together several of the Amiga's most important applications. Madison WI, March 8, 1993 ---- ASDG Incorporated, the leading innovator in color processing technology for the Commodore Amiga, announce a major upgrade to their award winning product, Art Department Professional. The new release contains several exclusive firsts which increase the level of integration of the Amiga's most popular imaging tools. ADPro 2.3 is the first third party product to offer complete support of the Video Toaster Framestore file format. The new release provides a loader and saver which can read and write Framestores in full broadcast color and fidelity. ADPro's Framestore support does not require a Video Toaster, which dramatically increases the processing options available to those using Toaster images. For example, Framestores can be directly manipulated by all machines on a network including non-Toaster equipped machines. Batch processing using any of ADPro's extensive manipulation and conversion capabilities is now quick and easy. Videographers now have a direct Framestore-to-D1 digital video connection using ADPro's ABEKAS digital video driver. This is today's most effective means of moving video data to and from the Amiga and has been used in such high profile productions as Quantum Leap, Babylon 5 and The American Music Awards. ADPro 2.3 also provides an exclusive direct memory link to the newest version of Deluxe Paint from Electronic Arts, as well as OpalVision's 24 bit-plane paint program. These links effectively fuse ADPro with the best painting programs available today. Said Perry Kivolowitz, President of ASDG, ``Our customers didn't want yet another image processor with mediocre painting capabilities. They want great image processing and great painting. We've delivered exactly that.'' ADPro has direct access to DPaint's memory including its primary, secondary, and animation buffers. A similar capability is provided for Centaur Development's OpalPaint. Users of either paint system can directly load and save images in any file format which ADPro supports. The same is true for any of ADPro's image processing capabilities. For example, a Toaster Framestore can be loaded into OpalPaint, touched up with both programs, and saved to a film recorder. Said Mr. Kivolowitz, ``We call ADPro, Image Processing's Common Ground. That title is more true now than ever. We've provided our users a way of joining their best tools together, making them more productive.'' ADPro 2.3 adds many other new capabilities as well. To learn more about the 2.3 upgrade or any of ASDG's other image processing tools, contact Ms. Gina Cerniglia at 925 Stewart Street, Madison WI, 53713 or call her at (608) 273 6585. Art Department Professional is a registered trademark of ASDG Incorporated. Video Toaster is a trademark of NewTek, Incoporated. Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.