Though the Amiga outputs RGB to your monitor, and this is the basis of aü teievi-suai colour Systems, no video deck wilt took twice at this. This is because it wiü need encoding of some kind. The most basic encod ing is provided by the RF moduiator which wii! produce a fairly skinny image output for you to record. The real advantage of the Amiga's output is the range of rescisions, coiours and the interface option. The iatter is the most imper tact, as aii video pictures are made up of two interfaced fields. These consist of two sets of the other even, ftickering away 50 times a second. The fields subsequentiy combine to produ flames at the rate of 25 a sec ond. So* when you curse the migraine-inducing properties of some Amiga screen mode!; remember they are one of the things that set it apart. Pauia, Agnus, Denise and Cary aü work pretty hard together to provide you with a basic multimedia platform. They take the weight off the CPU atiowmg it to concentrate on computing and organisations! tasks. One of the machine'; unheralded strengths is, without doubt, its operating system. Workbench 1.3 & 2.0s' multitasking capabitities are something) would be loathe to do without, The abitity to shuffle between différent programs is essential when coordinating and refining animS, text and Sound in the way that video pro duction. at any ievei, requires. The occasional crash is weü worth the cost if you're avoiding the waste of time, energy and enthusiasm that would arise from repeatedly quitting and restarting programs. Much and made ôf the guru's visits by the Amiga's detractors but if you are sensible, ie don't muititask with games çr dodgy PD, then you are soon iikeiy to forget what a guru looks like, Finaiiy in this round up of the Amiga's attractions for videographers, aü our hats must be doffed to the people who produce the myriad range of quatity software and hardware for the Amiga range. Titiing, ani mation and paint packages are avaiiabie that can work with Video at any ievei and cost. Third-party hardware is appearing which aüows the Amiga to compete with the speed and capacity of dedicated video Systems.