This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Gary: Will you be putting an announcement on the forum the next day listing new features of R3, anticipated ship date, and upgrade cost? I'm sure I speak for all who can't make it to the grand affair at Siggraph.
Thanks, you answered me by confirming that it has no advantage in frame accurate animation rendering/recording.
DQ-50P for 5-6 is used price as was the 2750 for the 5850 ! dummy! Dittos on quality difference and I did want your opinion on the +64 thing. I just don't see it as an option in the recording environment I previously mentioned and didn't understand why the big…
I take it from your comments that you've worked with this bandit board. Is it capable of using house sync? If not, what is the stability if its internal sync generator for use as house sync? I'm making assumptions that from what I've heard it will output animation TGA's like…
OK I got a little confused with all your res vs res stuff but having all that in print from true vision I do understand what your saying and it's really no different than what I said previously. The difference in the +64 vs +16/32 is zip for rendering 3DS…
PMJI- I have a little rule I use for this choice of frame vs field rendering. If your animation has lots of fast movement use fields if not much movement or slow movement use frames because it's faster. You see, the fast movement can be broken up into 60 movements…
Doug- Define Broadcast quality. The signal quality from the Magni is certainly acceptable for broadcast purposes. In fact, in a pinch, I've used the Magni to produce house sync for on line production of a TV commercial. Although 8 bit color and non frame accuracy animation has its technical problems…
I've been burned in this computer hardware/software tech revolution too many times to buy too far into the future. I don't buy more than 6-9 months future now. If I would have bought 250 MB capacity in a tape drive when I settled for the QIC-40 in 1990 at $250…
#The remaining Taga+64
Message #50595
Paul: I'm just curious. Why do a large percentage of forum members recommend the Targa+ 64 as opposed to the Targa+ 16/32? It is my understanding that the +64 does nothing more than cost a couple hundred more and does nothing more for frame accurate recording resolution at 24 or…
JM-what has happened to good tech support? I'm sorry for not getting back to you sooner but I spent all weekend trying to resolve a bug in Excel running on Windows for workgroups that MS says doesn't exist. Now they say it was fixed in a maintenance release! You got…
Thanks much for the info, some of your charts were valuable to me and I have printed them for my files on this SCSI drive project. I won't know probably, until end of next week whether I will be adding the drive as it depends on the go status of…
OK, More specifically, you do have the original VGA producer, not the pro model which has many more features. I verified your number 5108-01 Rev C. I'm not sure whether the director software will work with your model as I've never tested it. The director software was introduced with the…
Nice try, Paul but I believe Brad beat you to the correct answer to the question. I don't recall asking what type of "bug" was "exterminated", just who and what branch of military was involved. Anyway, no prizes for runner-up. I'm surprised Greg P. didn't jump in on this one.…
Got it! I'll send it tomorrow. It will be in a SCUBA TECH INC. Envelope and I will put it to your attention-personal etc. I know it's missppeelled, I'm just feeling kind of goofy today after being up all night trying to resolve a bug in EXCEL on a network.…
Just received your response and I do not have the older manuals infront of me now but to get you started here's some background info to consider. The original Magni (not PRO) hooked up to the VGA card via a RAMDAC adapter board only. Magni supplied two versions of this…
Here ye, here ye, here ye! Let it be known to all that Paul Lind(ANIM8 INC.) had the first correct answer to the simple trivia question and is the proud winner of my Autodesk "Backstage Pass" If you will E-mail your "safe" address I will US Mail it to you…
#Trivia Contest
Message #49565
Since these Siggraph/Autodesk tickets seem to be at a premium and I won't be able to make it this year I will offer mine up for a prize to the first one who can give me the correct answer to the simple question: On a 17" monitor with a .28…
Just browsing and read your question about the Magni? VGA producer. Are you having problems? Maybe I can help. I have used them since the begining and am also one of their beta test sites for hardware. They do have alot of features on the card that is not documented.
You never cease to amaze me, Professor Pyros. The square solder convention is a piece of trivia I never observed or heard of before. I read this and immediately grabbed a couple of boards from the junk box and don't ya know everyone of them has a square solder foil…
#HSC Morph
Message #49386
Ben, I just received the HSC Morph on Friday but haven't had a chance to install it yet. Between family obligations and an unbelievable work load I don't think I'll get a chance to play with it until this weekend. While my wife drove me to Orlando Sat. AM I…
> Is this true in all cases? I once made this statement to a friend of mine who just purchased a BUS Mastered EISA-VLB MB and he told me that on BUS Mastered EISA the slot does run at CPU speed. I'm not clear on just what BUS Mastered EISA…
No problem, Ana, I appreciate your views. I can look them up and get specs via fax backs from the distributors. You just give me good starting points. I really need a VLB with EISA slots too. I just hate to retire my 12 slot MB with 11 boards getting…
I don't believe it was on the market. It was shown at Comdex as an example of a mini capacity/ speed computer in the size of a standard tower case. The demo showed 20 open windows with operations just flying by. three were acad 3d wireframes rotating in real time.
PMJI, but you've hit a pet peeve of mine. Define Broadcast Resolution. Actually there is no such specific definition. It will vary depending on who answers the question: BE's, news men, ad agencies. CG directors, producers, etc. If the ATvista didn't exist targa+ would be it by most on this…
Kevin, Thanks for your comments re the Illuminator PRO. I'm filing them for future reference. I hope your source of info is accurate and you've verified the specs with Matrox. I was on the beta test team for Magni producer and experienced a similar problem with one of their earlier…
Thanks for the views from Europe. I believe the choice was made for me yesterday. I learned that IDE has an upper limit of 504 Meg on a single drive letter due to standards. There are higher capacity drives on the market but I learned that these require logical partitions…
Since your dreaming.. What about the Wyse system with the 5 pentium processors. And , get Yost to write the special software to do the split processing.??
John – Let me run these by you. Benchmark 1. Build a directory of sequential TGA's (1 Meg) for a total of 100 Meg. Then transfer them to the slave drive measuring the time with a stopwatch. eg. 100 sec = 1 MB/sec, Right? Benchmark 2. Transfer the files to…
Hey, thanks for the info on jpeg. Here's the scoop. I need to make a decision within the next week on a 1+ G. drive for a lot of framegrabbing of 32 bit 512×486 tga's. (995k ea.) I guess the free stuff I got in will work for this resolution.…
Thanks for the reply. I'm getting closer to the SCSI decision. It's no longer SCSI or IDE decision since I must have more than 500 meg per drive/directory. Now, which is better? Quantum, MIcropolis, or Maxtor? What's a good ISA cache ctrl. card ?
I was curious as to whether you were using a national standard that I hadn't heard of. I used to have a test by norton but it doesn't do cache and special formatting and doesn't do this and that etc. so I stopped using it. I thought of creating several…
It's possible to have superblack higher than 7.5 ire in a system wiring that has improper termination among other problems. To be sure of rgb 0,0,0 is indeed 0 ire a waveform monitor and proc amp (TBC) IS necessary. I've never had a complaint on my work but then I…
Follow up on my privious comment. John, I made several calls and have verified that the largest IDE single partition is 504 meg. The drives advertised that are larger must be partitioned or divided as two drives so that each is less than 504 meg. Guess I'm looking at SCSI…
No sarcasm was intended. Really! I've been accused of that before. I've never been accused of being a diplomat. I guess that goes with having been a plant manager with average of 50 people responsibilities for 15 years. What I meant was now that I've apologized and admitted my error…
David, I owe you an apology. Recently I told you that I felt this forum was for subjects of and for comments related to Autodesk multimedia, 3DS etc. I told you I would only respond to your political questions on the appropriate forum. I was wrong. After following these threads…
VLB MB is short lingo for Vesa Local Bus Main Board. This bus is a special slot that VLB cards plug into that allow the card to access the CPU direct by way of a 32 bit data path and at CPU speed. These slots are available on MB's with…
Thank you for the reply. With your comment about the 1239 Seagate— Iguess I should watch out because I've been using them now for over three years. I have three on the controller now. You're right about Smartdrive getting very high speed results but then that is really not accurate…
#Image Alchemy
Message #48925
Some time back you mentioned a product called Image Alchemy. I recently ran across it as shareware, requiring 50 minutes to download @ 2400. It said it does JPEG. Would you recommend it to me for the price of downloading? I believe I'll need some compression software in the near…
Thanks for the info, John. I'm currently using 4-IDE drives on a ISA coprocessed 4Meg Cache ctrl. Speed is about 1.3 meg/sec using special block mode transfer. The next move is to go to a VLB MB and I'm considering switching to the SCSI -2 route but I've heard so…
>> PLUS, the CORRECT way to do this is with an alpha matte in an ABC-roll environment by shoving the matte into the switchers key channel. 3D Studio produces a perfect matte by rendering in 32-bit mode and turning Alpha-Split ON
Yes, you and I agree even on the RAM and HD. Buy now what you need now. Ana, what do you think about SCSI-2 vs IDE (present state of art)? Your opinion to include the controllers w cache available.
Steve– The only satisfactory way I found to do this is one of the following methods: A. If doing an 8 bit flc. use a Magni VGA producer or similar VGA overlay card to mix the video. Your Targa can do this but I don't have that much experience using…
I don't belieE you are refering to the US market when you refered to megas and Hard drives being a good investment. Most computer hardware is not a good "investment" I consider it a necessary evil to do the job. Since I've been buying computer hardware circa, 1977, there has…
OK Robert, Let me give you an inventory: System #1 Graphics work area( notice I didn't use the term station for fear of tickling someone's nerve): 486-66 32 meg ram wMetheus928 S3 4 meg VRAM, targa+ Diaquest DQ50p, 3DS running panacea driver. System#2 for database, desktop pub, spreadsheet accounting: 486-33…
Thanks for the low down. I might give it a try some day.
Agreed! I really was shocked at Comdex after searching for their booth and only finding a lady with a Corel badge standing next to a wall. She told me Corel decided not to have a booth this year. This was shocking to me because Canada was the honored country at…
Metheus S3928 w 4 Meg.
Message #48284
Three weeks ago I reported my observations on the Metheus S3 928 4meg Vram card. We found the Windows drivers worked fine in true color at 1024-768 but had reported video trash in the windows wallpaper and disruption of color in the icons. Also, I found the feature connector was…
From what I saw at Comdex I'd say the the DEC Alpha is only being held up by Windows NT release and if Windows NT then DEC Alpha and Intel Pentium will be left in the dust. Personally, I'm holding off until this three way speed race takes a pit…
So Email me when it's for sale, if I'm not broke by then with all these upgrades I'll buy it. You sold me!
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