Video Master Film

Video Master Film is an animated graphics format associated with Video Master (also written "VideoMaster"), a video capture product by Microdeal. There were versions for Atari ST and Amiga computers.

Format Specification
Video Master file format: (VID,FLM & VSQ) -

Header (32 bytes) size   name            Description - long   header          Contains 'VMAS' word   version         Contains '1x' for version 1.x word    no_frames       No. of frames of video... word   frame_rate      Playback rate of video (see table) long   sample_size     Amount of audio in file... (0=no audio - VID ) word   sample_rate     Sample playback rate (Hz) word   seq_length      Size of sequence data... (0=no seq - FLM ) word   no_keys         How many keys there are... . . . Padded to 32 bytes

Video frames

16 words of palette, 1 word for each colour 0 to 15 (the palette data is in the AMIGA format... xxxxrrrr/ggggbbbb). 8000 bytes of picture per frame, no. of frames in header.

Audio data -- 8 bit signed samples, size of sample in header.

Sequence data - No. of bytes given in the header. Each byte represents 1/10s interval. 0 = no event, 128+key = event

Key data

No. of keys as given in the header, each key definition contains the following:

word   start_frame     First video frame for this key word   last_frame      Last video frame for this key word   video_speed     Speed of video for this key (see table) long   audio_start     Offset to start of audio for this key long   audio_length    Length of audio for this key word   audio_rate      Sample speed of this key (Hz) 0=audio off byte   video_loop      Flag - loop video byte   audio_loop      Flag - loop audio

Speed of video playback --- Value  PAL     NTSC    Units - 0      25      30      frames/second 1      12      15      frames/second 2      8       10      frames/second 3      6       7       frames/second 4      4       5       frames/second 5      3       3       frames/second 6      2       2       frames/second 7      1       1       frame/second 8      2       2       seconds/frame 9      3       3       seconds/frame 10     4       4       seconds/frame 11     5       5       seconds/frame 12     6       6       seconds/frame 13     7       7       seconds/frame 14     8       8       seconds/frame 15     9       9       seconds/frame

Software

 * Video Master Amiga v1.2 software
 * (Can extract images.)

Sample files

 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/video/videoMasterFilm/
 * → Videomaster_v1.2_1992_Microdeal.adf → VIDEO/DEMO.VSQ