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From: tucker@tahoe.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Amiga graphics to video (In n)
Keywords: graphics animation video
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Date: 3 Mar 91 07:51:09 GMT
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Reply-To: tucker@tahoe.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker)
Organization: University of Nevada - Reno
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If you are going to be doing any type of high quality graphics with a 
ray-tracing package like IMAGINE, you should get three things:

1) An industrial grade VTR that is accurate to a single frame. You don't
really need a single frame controller to put down animations onto tape.
Just load up the frame, record it onto tape for two frames, back up one,
then repeat the process for each frame. Remember, a hires 24 bitplane
image takes up between 300k and 1.4MB, depending upon the complexity
and file format used.

2) A 24bitplane display board with a paintbox(software) that is real-time
24bit RGB! This means either a Colorburst, Firecracker24, or a 
Harlequin board. HAM, or regular HIRES just doesn't cut it anymore.

3) A removable media hard/optical drive. The popular brands are:
	Syquest, Ricoh, Bernoulli for hard drives.
	I am not sure for optical. You might call XETEC and find out
what they are using.



Juan Trevino

"Anything else would be unprofessional."