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Strata Videoshop 3.0

pee-air

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I was looking through some of my old MacAddict CDROMs and I found this little gem. It is the full commercial version and it looks like it might be an interesting piece of 68k Mac nostalgia to play with.

I tinkered with it for a bit and haven't quite figured out how to use it. So I guess I'm going to have to read some documentation or something. I don't imagine it will serve too much practical purpose though, being that it's quite old and lacking many modern features.

Anyone have any experience with Strata Videoshop 3.0?

 

Unknown_K

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Stata videoshop is the same as Avid videoshop (purchased by strata). It is meant for capturing video using A/V Macs or 3rd party hardware and editing it.

They went on to make strata 3d videoshop for PPC machines.

 

Maccess

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It was Strata VideoShop, then it became Avid Video Shop, improved a little bit, then bundled with the Avid Video Kit for Performa 6400/6500 and their AIO kin.

Version 3.0 is FREEWARE! Woohoo!!!

It's supposed to have a VideoShop PowerPlug for use with PPC Macs. It's a library of PPC routines that speed up VideoShop on those machines.

I used to use it with an 8100 with a Radius SpigotProAV. Nice software, beats Premiere for its price ($0). ;D

 

pee-air

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I was playing with it last night. It's kind of interesting. I was playing with the tutorial clips that came with it. Mostly just fiddling with some of the transitions. Unfortunately, it's just a bit too slow on my Quadra 700 -- which has now found new life as a dedicated word processing/faxing/jouranlling machine.

Perhaps I'll setup one of my old PCI PowerMacs for some primitive video editing. I don't imagine I'll accomplish much with it, but it'll be fun to pass those boring hours that we all happen upon from time to time.

 
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