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From: andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick)
Subject: Re: DVI questions
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1991 22:27:33 GMT

In article <573@hydra.bucknell.edu> pinter@castor.bucknell.edu writes:
>
>Two questions about DVI technology:
>
>  1)  When authoring an application, what happens at the final step?
>      Let's say you have the application working on you 600 Meg
>      hard drive.  Is it a simple matter to transfer it into a format
>      that is acceptable for pre-mastering, or does this take some
>      special program?  If so, how much does such a program cost?

I am just a beginner with DVI, but I will try to tackle this one.  

The DVI boards you get for a PC allow you to do edit-quality capture
and compression.  Once you get your application working on a hard disk,
you will still need to submit your source materials (1" video tape I
believe) to be captured/compressed in the DVI lab.  My guess is that
you submit the video source material, a story board on how it fits
together, and the controlling software, but I am guessing here.  You
see, I have not got all the DVI docs yet.


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Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
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