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IDEO STAR I
ondon company, Connections, have a solution to your
MP
video making problems. If you can't afford the equipment
or you don't know how to make a video, then they are offering
a range of services to help. Various training courses are avail•
able with free offers for the unwaged. You can also hire the
equipment which includes Lights-Sound-2, Machine S-VHS
and three Machine Beta Cam Edit facilities, Vision Mixer and
Computer Graphics. Connections are based in r
Hammersmith and can be contacted on 0181-741 1768.
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home or professional
video o production, you may
like r to know that Diskotech
have t announced the release
of htheir
new collection of
animated o titling fonts.
Following s on from the original
MovieFonts, e it works with all
Amigas i with 1Mb using
Deluxe n Paint or similar.
Available t as a 10 disk pack,
MovieFonts
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2 costs E40 and
contains r 18 original colour
fonts which share the same
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palette
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for mixing and matching
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without colour conflict.
The set is available now from
Diskotech,
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Builth Wells, Powys 1D4 4AW
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alovieFonta 2 la now D
available for both horn.
and profe ssiona l vide o use rs
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Find out how to ma ke • vide o
at London-ba se st C onne ctions
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WHITE WEBBING
The first wedding to be broadcast live on
the Internet is about to take place in
Istanbul Virtual guests can link up for the
ceremony or even chat to guests at the
actual reception.
Apparently, the site will be running
after the event with a Baby Album being
promised for the near future!
EXPOSED
A new initiative has been set up to allow
the public to use the Internet as on anonymous
way of blowing the whistle on any
dangerous or illegal practices that are
being covered up. The team behind it,
called simply Whistleblowers UK, is made
up of journalists and industry people who
aim to make the site a safe way of
employees speaking Out against employers,
where previously they had little
protection for doing so.
The Internet site is based outside the
UK so that the sender cannot be traced.
Post your worries and Whistleblowers UK
will then investigate. Find them at
httal/uk-commerce.com/whistiel
OFF THE RAILS
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Technologies regarding Escom's shares. After ploughing
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through all the jargon, the gist of it is that [scorn have now
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got some more funding but have had to give up some control
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terms of shares...we think
e Apparently, ESCOM AG have increased their capital with a
rcash
outlay of DM59,994,000. Escom explained: The new
11 eshares
have been taken over by Commerzbank AG for the
company acquire new resources amounting approximately
DM100 million: Manfred Schmitt, the principal shareholder
in ESCOM AG, has transferred 16 per cent of the base capital
to the BV Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH, a subsidiary of the
Bayerische Vereinsbank AG, and a further 2.5 per cent of the
base capital to Siemens Nixdorf Infotmationssysteme AG. This
in effect means that Schmitt's share has been cut by nearly
30 per cent
British Rail are joining the Information
,Super Railway by launching their own
Web site. Called British Rail International
it will have information including major
rail networks in Europe with plans to
include accommodation and restaurant
advice.
4 The pages cover UK, USA, Europe and
Rest of World and by clicking on the
cissue
consortium and will be offered to shareholders at the
eearliest
possible date after presentation of the 1995 annual
Jn
report.
The company gave this official statement: "By this action
shareholders and banks have created the right conditions to
give ESCOM AG a more solid financial base and an extension
country you are in, you can then access
various options to get the required info,
whether it's booking details, prices or
t The increase in capital is part of an agreement between of its circle of shareholders enabling it to develop its business routes. BR are stationed at httpWwww
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company, its associates and bankers by which the successfully,"
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e r loanto are gearing up their products for the ex/cony/0 io.lha, for CompuServe GO AM1GAUSER, Kara Computer Graphics and is the first time some of this
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Internet as their Personal Paint 6.4 is induded in Library 8, CIF JULHA
material will be available to the public Ideal for pictures,
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Amiga Internet Surfer Pack They claim that Personal Cloanto have also been busy on new DataTypes to be animations, presentations and titling effects, the collec-
ePaint
proves ideal for Web publishing as it offers profes- included in the Surfer Pack. The DataTypes which are for tion will house 80 ColorFonts and AnimFonts which can
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sional colour reduction, dithering, quantization and the GIF, Veg. PNG and XBM formats, support 24-bit be used to create animations with any Amiga package
a antiafiasing algorithms. The package also supports new DataType tag extensions, and can pass true colour data to that supports Anirn-Brushes. It will also contain Starfields
nWeb
graphics formats such as PNG.
applications like the CyberGraphx software. They can also animations with moving stars from different perspectives
N e Check Out the Aminet and Compuserve for Cloanto's process around 99.5 per cent of pictures on the Web -a and Plaquegrounds with textures such as marble and
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new CIF I/O module ('personal_sifialibrary' version 5.0) higher percentage than comparable Mac and PC systems. wood.
for their Personal Paint package which they've just A new CD-ROM is on the horizon too. Called The Kara For more information e-mai• Cloanto at