EXTERNAL LINK Great Video with lots of amazing & fun details, it would be interesting to see the performance comparison of such a A4k machine & its card vs. aV4 Standalone, for example. Since the salvaged, historical data, setup and the original files & footage are available as .hdf files for anyone to download from The Internet Archive: Here: EXTERNAL LINK such a performance comparison is indeed possible. Additionally the whole A4000, Cards & 3 Hd's is currently being offered through Ebay EXTERNAL LINK - More details in the description of the auction of "The Commodore Amiga used to make Titanic: Wow. It's hard to know how to put this find into words... This incredible once-in-a-lifetime discovery is the actual Commodore Amiga 4000/040 that was guaranteed as used (and photographed - see picture with yellow arrow pointing to it) on the sets of major motion pictures including: Titanic (James Cameron) - the #1 movie of all time until very recently Apollo 13 (Ron Howard) The Abyss (James Cameron) and more! Unbelievably extensive footage from "Titanic" was found still intact and 100% working (at the time of this listing) on one of the three hard disk drives. This felt somewhat like discovering The Titanic itself. It is believed the 3rd hard disk contains footage from "Apollo 13" starring Tom Hanks. This is more amazing because, as the story goes, most of the original footage from the making of Titanic was lost when the backup tapes were stored in a room right next to that building's UPS (power supply). The magnetic field wiped the tapes over many years. This information comes directly from the machine's previous owner, an employee of Digital Domain, who worked on the movies using this very same machine. These hard disks in this listing may therefore contain the only footage left in existence from the making of one of the biggest motion pictures of our generation. To see the recovered Titanic footage, and the story of this machine's discovery, on set usage, and partial repair you may watch this video: EXTERNAL LINK This machine was used on set to: Record from the "video tap" for instant playback of test shots on set. A number of these never-before-seen test shots are still on its 1.02GB hard disk. Interface with the "motion control" camera on set using Amiga ARexx scripts, so as to coordinate repeat camera movements for adding multiple layers of the same moving shot, such as people, then fog, then effects, etc. More info on this process is in the video linked above, but essentially the Amiga would tell the camera when to start moving, the camera would tell the Amiga when to record, then the Amiga would tell the camera when it was done and to continue moving/tracking for that shot. This machine was integral to the making of Titanic, Apollo 13, etc. Using this machine, the Directors (James Cameron/Ron Howard) were able to immediately watch shots back, which otherwise would only be possible after waiting to develop the film reel from inside the camera. This technological leap was imperative on the set of these special effects laden movies."
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