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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Amiga graphics to video (In n)
Keywords: graphics animation video
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Date: 4 Mar 91 19:42:30 GMT
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In article <5665@tahoe.unr.edu> tucker@tahoe.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker) writes:
>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.

You would be nearly crazy to try to do this. At 30 frames per second
you will cost yourself more pain and frustration than the savings could
ever be worth.

>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.

I can't speak for the Harlequin board because it is not available in the
US but neither the Colorburst or Firecracker24 support composite or
component NTSC output so you will not be able to videotape from them
without extra costly hardware.

>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.

In a professional system, I wouldn't waste my time with these tiny little
hard drives. A thiry second 24bit animation can easily chew up 640 Meg. If
cost were an issue, I would get the largest hard drive I could afford
and use 250M 1/4" streaming tape for portability of data. Otherwise, the
Ricoh rewritable 600 Meg magneto-optical drive from XETEC would do nicely
at $3600.

>"Anything else would be unprofessional."

Alright, time to fes up....you don't really do this professionally
do you? :-)
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