This is the February 1995 issue of the U.K. mac magazine, MacFormat.
The PDF was scanned on a Kyocera Taskalfa as a JPEG at the highest
level. The images were manually corrected for straightness with the
ruler tool and cut to the ratio 1:1.33 The images were then reduced by
batch job in Photoshop CS3 to 1614x1200 at 72dpi. The PDF was made in
Acrobat 8 from these images. The version was set to Acrobat 4,
bookmarks were set and OCR was applied. The final size of the PDF is
98MB.

The future is being glimpsed at in this issue: FireWire is introduced
as a concept and Apple are talking to Sony (amongst others) into
fitting FireWire sockets into video recorders and cameras. There are
barely digital cameras and video cameras are large. This is the era of
SSW 7.1 and VHS. DVD is unknown.
Will the Internet make the CD-ROM obsolete? We will have to wait and
see. Certainly, the Macintosh Garden has kept my use of CDs very much
alive. The Internet is the Next Big Thing. Unfortunately it is sloooow
(28K modems, if you are lucky, and 40MHz processors aren't nifty.
MacFormat does have an offer of �5 per week to join the Internet.

The theme this month is desktop video. There is a demo version of
Adobe Premiere 4.0 on the CD. There are reviews of the aforementioned
[Adobe Premiere 4.0][1] as well as VideoFusion, VideoDirector,
[VideoShop][2] & MediaFactory. There are reviews of editing extras as
well: [Gryphon Dynamic Effects][3] & [CoSA After Effects][4]
Further articles list tricks of the trade, give recommendations (one
gigabyte of space is fine...) as to all of the hardware that will make
your life easier. One of the ads unhelpfully suggests the Performa 460
and CD-150 for �1000 as a 'Multimedia Starter System'. It does have
8MB RAM though.

As always, the prices of things are eye-opening: an grayscale A3 laser
will set you back �2,100, a 2-speed CD-ROM (CD 300e) is a snip at �200
and the RasterOps MoviePak NuBus card (it provides full-motion capture
(30 fields per second) and full-screen at 60 fields per second for
�2000. NuBus is almost dead and I'm not sure people were aware that a
whole new architecture was just around the corner: PCI.

There is also an article on removable drives - opticals, flopticals,
DAT and recordable CD-ROMs. Disks for the latter cost �20 and the
drives cost between �2,000 and �7,000. This was a time when it was
cheaper to fly from London to the US, by the same items at the same
price but in dollars, fly back again, cheat customs and still save
money on buying the same things in the UK.

I learnt that the Internet provider CIX has a network of 56GB (oooh!)
all on optical disks. That is a lot of optical disks. The largest ones
at the time were 1.3GB. It is one of the best places on the Internet
to find shareware and freeware, but you have to be registered with
them.

The CD-ROM, inlay cover & booklet can be downloaded as an image
[here][5]. The floppy image can be found [here][6].

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC (Carbonized) x86 (Intel:Mac) x86 (Windows)

  [1]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/adobe-premiere-40
  [2]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/avid-videoshop-203
  [3]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/ppc-audio-software-os7-osx58-some-68k-apps
  [4]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/cosa-after-effects-11
  [5]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macformat-1995-cover-cds
  [6]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-format-floppies-94-96