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COLORBURST  -  24 Bit Video Engine

At Last! An affordable 24 bit colorcard with high resolution
and great flexibility. ColorBurst delivers 24 Bit color - 16.8
million colours *per pixel* in full overscan. With a
resolution of 768*580 pixels this is a professional graphics
card at a consumer price.

ColorBurst is more than just a display card - it includes a
powerful graphics coporcessor that generates many real time
special video effects.

ColorBurst is a complete ready to use system, including a
Slideshow Program, Sculpt, Silver, and Digiview loaders, and a
24 bit IFF paint and image processing program.

ColorBurst allows you to freely mix Amiga and ColorBurst
Video, (Workbench could be run with a 24 bit picture of the
Amazon behind it, because ColorBurst has its own memory, it
doesn't tie up Amiga Memory).

ColorBurst is compatible with all Amigas, and is fully
transparent allowing your Amiga to work in normal graphics
mode. ColorBurst gives the impression that the new graphics
modes are an inbuilt part of your Amiga. ColorBurst is
available in PAL and NTSC and is fully Genlock compatible for
extremely high quality Broadcast Video. No special monitor is
necessary - use your standard Amiga monitor.

ColorBurst has 1.5 megabytes of memory built in for its own
use. Pictures can be loaded into this memory and use no Amiga
Chip RAM. Up to 4 full screen overscan 24 bit images or twelve
8 bit screens can be stored in memory.

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ColorBurst's Video Coprocessor makes many realtime video
special effect possible, including:

  * Continous scrolling in 24 bits (for video titling and
    games)

  * Dual playfield displays with stencil, freely mixing Amiga
    graphics in front or behind ColorBurst graphics. Video
    priority can be set for every pixel on the screen, eg an apple
    and an orange could be displayed overlapping side by side and
    an Amiga-displayed man could walk in front of the orange and
    behind the apple.

  * Dual 24 bit display - two 24 bit images can be stored in
    memory and switched pixel by pixel with stencil.

  * Change graphics modes, pririty modes, display modes and
    palettes on any scan line.

  * Double buffered and page flipped animation.
  
  * Explodes, dissolves, wipes in any shape or pattern between
    ColorBurst, Amiga and live genlocked video.

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Because ColorBurst is true RGB, it is vastly superior in
reolution and picture wuality to composite video. For video
production you can output in high quality composite or Y/C
video woth over 700 lines of resolution, by using a Genlock or
Video modulator. The visual difference between RGB video and
composite video is like the audio difference between Compact
disk and low quality Audio cassette. Unlike some composite
display cards, a special attachment is not required to use
ColorBurst with a Genlock. ColorBurst has 3 times the
Horizontal resolution of DCTV.

ColorBurst picture quality is sharp and clean. Image
manipulation and processing is a lot faster than Hold and
Modify (HAM) graphics because each pixel is purely described
by its own 24 but number, avoiding the bleeding, dithering,
streaking, innacuracies, and slow processor intensive
algorithms required for HAM picture manipulation. ColorBurst
has twice the pixel resolution and far superior shading to any
HAM card available. 

Once loaded into Amiga Memory, picture update is instant,
allowing fast realtime image processing and painting in full
24 bits before your eyes. ColorBurst is capable of Partial
Screen continuous, double buffered, full overscan, glitch free
24 bit animation at 20 frames/second or full screen 60
frames/second in 8 bit mode. ColorBurst also supports hardware
24 bit Virtual sprites; allowing you to move 24 bit brushes or
images (even as large as the screen) around in real time.

Some display cards such as the Video Toaster and the Mimetics
frame buffer require you to edit and paint your pictures in a
HAM paint program because they cannot update their pictures
fast enough, then you must do a SLOW transfer and wait before
seeing your picture. ColorBurst updates the changes to your
screen Instantly so you can paint and Image process with 16.8
million colours in real time. See your results as you go!

All of the display modes are palette-mapped and can be updated
at 60 frames/second. This makes many more real time special
effects possible. These include:

 * Complex color cycling animations.
 
 * "Smooth as butter" digital fade in/out to any palette or
   color.
   
 * Solarizing, paint effetcs, negatives, color schemes
   smoothly growing from one palette to the next.

 * Realtime gamma and white balance correction.

ColorBurst is set to become the standard for the Amiga because
of its low cost, universal compability, powerful features,
very high quality, and accessibility by the Copper, Blitter
and Inuition for Amiga friendly access to the device.

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Technical Specifications

Maximum Resolution        768 * 580

Video Compability         NTSC/PAL/SECAM

Video OutPut              Separate Red,Green,Blue & Sync

Broadcast Video           Genlock,Y/C,S-VHS,
compability               Composite Video

Conecction to Amiga       Passthru from 23 way 'D'
                          video connactor

Memory                    48 bit internal 1,5 MegaBytes

Stencil Control           2 Hardware bitplanes for complete
                          dual playfiled and video priority
                          control on a pixel by pixel basis.

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ColorBurst har EVERY video format capability covered, not just
Composite.

Just imagine viewing your workbench, spreadsheet or desktop
publishing package with ColorBurst's clean, sharp, clear 24
but RGB video output. It opens up som many exciting new
possibilities such as 24 bit Desktop Publishing, MultiMedia
and Illustration. Isn't your Amiga RGB monitor so much sharper
and clearer than Composite? Why then limit yourself only to
the inferior world if composite video? ColorBurst gives you
the best of both worlds and allows you to select the video
encoder for your budget and application. You are not limited
to the mediocreencoder that's built into some devices. With
ColorBurst you can choose to go composite, Y/C, or S-VHS in
NTSC, PAL or SECAM with the genlock encoder of your choice. Or
plug straight into your studio encoder for highest quality
broadcast video obtainable. ColorBurst excels both in the
worlds of Desktop RGB and Composite Broadcast Video.

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