Via Video System One

01/01/2025

Remember LightSpeed, a well-known Via Video competitor?

I know what you’re thinking.

09/21/2015

Around 1984:

Join the Leader in Electronic Picture Processing

In eight cities across America, Via Video is introducing Electronic Picture Processing technology to customers in seven separate industries.

This major undertaking needs your help in demonstrating, training, supporting and producing visual communications with Via Video's family of Picture Processing systems.

If you have a minimum of five years experience as an illustrator, animator, graphic designer, video producer, photographer, art director (or preferably a combination of the above), please call or write the Via Video office nearest you to discuss career opportunities.

What Picture Processing Is:

Picture Processing is an important new technology in visual communications. A Picture Processor is like a word processor for pictures, intended for use in creative environments everywhere. A Picture Processor provides for the easy creation, editing and transfer of still or moving pictures in video, photographic and computer graphic media.

What a Picture Processor Can Do:

A Picture Processor saves time and/or reduces the cost of producing visual communication materials in many industries.

A Picture Processor increases the productivity of the creative process, by allowing existing personnel to produce more ideas for less cost.

A Picture Processor provides better control over the creative process by reducing the number of outside steps involved.

What a Picture Processor Can't Do:

A Picture Processor can't think, talk to clients, create ideas, turn lead into gold, or predict the future.

A Picture Processor does not obsolete jobs, but makes existing personnel more productive.

A Picture Processor cannot do anything without a trained, motivated, creative person to use it.

SANTA CLARA 408-980-8009
5155 Old Ironsides Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95050

ATLANTA (404) 953-0082
100 Galleria Parkway. N W
Tower 1, Suite 965
Atlanta, GA 30339

NEW YORK 212-980-8282
437 Madison Avenue
Suite 2001
New York, NY 10022

WASHINGTON, D.C. (703) 827O640
7777 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22043

CHICAGO (312) 944-0414
676 N St. Claire Street
Sute 1920
Chicago, IL 60611

DETROIT (313) 528-2787
799 Stephenson Hwy
Troy, Ml 48084

LOS ANGELES (213) 277-5072
1800 Avenue of tha Stars
Suite 410
Century City, CA 90067

DALLAS (214) 901 1606
845 Two Lincoln Centre
5420 LBJ Freeway, LB 59
Dallas, TX 75240

09/21/2015

Elaine Genovese, Al Barris and Barry Meyers in the Via Video Eastern Regional Office. Notice Ken Knowlton's Chicklets image, created on the Via Video System Two. Taken around 1985.

09/21/2015

Via Video Electronic Picture Processing Workshops
Created by Connie Chronis and team in October 1984
(Six years before the release Adobe Photoshop in 1990)

Who Should Attend:
Design professionals: graphic designers, illustrators, art directors, AV specialists, storyboard artists, art educators

09/21/2015

Jim McBurney's innovative marketing strategy for the System One focused on five markets. (June 20, 1983)

Presenter's Advantage
Instructor's Advantage
Advertiser's Advantage
Retailer's Advantage
Designer's Advantage

09/20/2015

Photographed in 1983 in the New York office with the System One's black and white video camera and enlarged in UltraPaint. One of my first selfies.

09/20/2015

Chicklets, 1984
Dr. Ken Knowlton
Via Video System One
http://www.kenknowlton.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Knowlton

The Via Video image, made up of 90,000+ spheres, was created by Ken Knowlton on the Via Video System One in 1984. It is posted on Facebook with Ken's permission.

09/20/2015

Via Video System One Brochure, ~1983

09/20/2015

Photographed in 1983 in the New York office with the System One's black and white video camera and colorized in Via Video's Ultrapaint. One of my first selfies.

09/20/2015

I remember making this, my first figurative digital painting from life, in the demo room at Via Video's office behind McWhorter's Stationery. Rebecca Newell and Galen Caspers were there. Were you in the picture, Jason Danielson? Looks like the late Larry Puppo on the right. I painted Via Video software engineer Jules Minsky after this.

09/17/2015

Mind Over Media ad