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I'll keep you posted. Do you have a spec sheet you can fax to me at 904-354-4055 of your product. They promised to ship by end of June and that's today unless thay meant '94 Their demonstration at Comdex was quite impressive with many more features than the Gryphon product.
Alan: I've been a Corel user since 1.2 and have yet to upgrade to 4.0. I talked to the Corel people at Comdex which was hard to do because they didn't even have a booth???? Does this indicate financial problems at Corel? Anyway, back to the tech stuff. I am…
Herc. and VTR
Message #48145
I thought I'd bring you up to date on my friend's venture into frame accurate recording with the Herc XP and the AG7750+ softVTR. He's got it to work but only as render to tape. Disk to VTR won't work. If he renders for long periods per frame he goes…
I'm using the Panacea driver and like it a lot. It seems pretty much bug free. It doesn't allow 24 bit in the VGA renderer (RCPADI) while maintaining 8 Bit in the Materials Editor(RCPADI) which, I think is required. I understand from ChrisE (Panacea) that they are working on that…
Sherwood, I have a genoa VLB card on another machine here on my network. I noticed it had a 3DS driver but havn't tried it yet because of that dongle thing. How do you like it and would it be worth my while to experiment with it? That machine is…
OK I think I follow what you.ve done and agree it is pretty slick for eliminating the jitter on a single still frame grabbed from live video for texture mapping. Your method would yield a sharper texture map but does it really have any advantage on animated texture maps (rotoscoping)?…
Art is in the eye of the beholder. Some years back I cut up a dropcloth from a painter and put it into a frame and turned it in for a grade in highschool art class. I got a A! To the painter it was trash, to my art teacher…
OK Greg I agree with you on this one , for graphics that is. Your diagonal line was a good example but if in your original image the missing line originally only had one x, how would your program know NOT to produce the other two in the blended image.…
>I think you are being unfair to Autodesk. There is absolutely nothing wrong with their policy. I work for a AutoCAD/3DS dealer and we do our best to offer top notch support to our customers.> Who me? being unfair? First of all I can understand your bias since you are…
Good luck! I hope the do it for you. Let me know.
Yes do your own test and be your own judge but I do believe the real advantage will show up in the VHS distribution copy from 3/4 vs the VHS copy from camcorder SVHS. In forensics wouldn't timing be a factor? Both the forensics service bureaus doing video here insist…
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Demo Tape
Message #47903
I've been using the Gryphon Morph product for two weeks and I would say it's just OK. It does what it claims very well and is not all that slow considering targa resolution. It does require some skill (experience) in the placement of the morph keys. With Targa 512x486x24 it…
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Sony EVO-9800A
Message #47902
I have some experience in the nature of your question since I have, over the past few years, gone through the same equipment decisions. I've used camcorders to record (VHS, SVHS, 8mm and Hi8). I use a Magni card. I also use a frame accurate setup with 3/4 Umatic 5850…
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Frame Grabing
Message #47845
Thanks for the detailed stuff of your IPAS utilities. Sounds like a great bag of tricks I will look into. Back to the field stripping question. Now I understand what you were refering to. Here's how I handle this IF I am the shooter and conditions permit. Shoot the moving…
Laurie: Be sure your file naming protocol is correct: FOUR letters (only letters) followed by FOUR numbers (only numbers). example: ABCD0025.TGA If you use less than four numerical digits the results are totally unpredictable. If you follow this naming protocol a series of files starting with ABCD0000.tga through ABCD0360.tga can…
FWIW and Larry Minton: I once tried a 3 meg Everex card in a 386-40 MB with 4 meg of 32 bit ram for a total of 7 meg. I assigned 2 meg to the smartdrive also. What a turtle of a machine. It was 6 to 10 times faster…
Wow! what a change in attitude! Your response was very logical, factual, and convincing. You must have gotten a good night's sleep or something. But, so there is no reading between the lines I will repeat and clarify my comments to you. I never said I agreed with Jim's views.…
Do you have any experience with the drop out symptoms and headwear with Betacam SP metal tape? I've asked many people about this but only a few engineers have admitted there is a problem just as in Hi8 metal tape. It also shows up in MII.
Here's a repeat: OK! It worked very well in still rendering. Here's what I've done to get the effect: I created an oversize box(larger than viewing area). Apply the Smoke IPAS as follows: Size: any number 1000 to 2000 works well Iterations: 2 or 3 Exponent: 1.5 Speed: 0.3 Color1:…
Actually to All: I've been developing a dosier on Gary's quick teasers about R3 and I'd bet he has a Wavefront he's attempting to copy feature for feature. Guess tomorrow I'll call up Wavefront and get a spec sheet to see what the future holds for me. TeeTee
>>close to my reference to the Great White Shark Irrelevant issue! I don't discuss the finer points of 3Dstudio in church sunday morning and likewise reserve my opinions on political, religous, sex issues for forums appropriate to the subject.
I'm aware of the high quality of 3DS dealers here on the forum and NOW I have somewhere to turn. However as long as my dealer can handle the sales end of the product and I have this forum for EXCHANGE of support ideas and tips, I'll be happy. Remember,…
I didn't ask for apologies, David, I was very much concerned that you were coming unglued. Its OK to be passionate about something you believe in. I must admit though if I had to choose between you and Jim as my negotiator I think the choice would be easy. His…
Bob, Thanks for dropping in to offer your thoughts. Most of us are aware of the Autodesk policy but are not happy with it. I don't buy it that Autodesk is so financially strapped that they can only provide 4 personnel to offer tech support for all the multimedia product…
Yes Sony has a different machine for every technique. Other than source deck I can't see why anyone would want to do frame accurate editing with Hi8 anyway. Hi8 was originally intended for acquisition and as such specs were designed around that purpose.. Everyone demanded Sony convert the 8mm format…
A couple weeks ago I downloaded your driver and use it exclusively for 3DS with the new Metheus 928 S3 with 4 meg. I sent you a message and didn't get a reply. We were having problems with the deleted message CIS host bug at the time. Did you ever…
I'll have to reconfigure windows for 8 bit mode to check out the speed now that I fully understand what you did. The Metheus is working with windows ani PROand 3DS fine. I had to use the Panacea driver (downloaded) because their driver was real flakey. The only problem is…
I'm currently using the DQ50P with 3DS and a targa+ 16/32. The VCR is a VO-5850 3/4 Umatic. It works great! Never a dropped frame with over 20 hours of animation recorded. I also have the Diaquest Action Animator for full rotoscoping and it works great too. If you have…
Oh my gosh! Did I accidently get in with the wackos in the Whitehouse forum? David, really now, you need to get hold of yourself. Calm down, develop a sense of humor and make a life for yourself. Otherwise, the men in white coats will come and lock you up!
Great Danny! Now combined with the clouds and maybe a rainbow or two it'll look just like a summer afternoon in Florida!
Who knows? My dealer took 14 weeks to get mine to me.
I have an EVO-9800 and it does not support frame accurate insert editing. The 9800A maybe different.
TBC is used to correct minor imperfections in the playback of video from the less than perfect sync generated by the motor driving the head of the playback VCR. The proc amp will allow you to adjust thr black level, the white level, the burst phase, and chroma saturation level…
Don't mention it! PS: Is the check in the mail yet.
The latest update on Moving clouds: Used the settings in my previous message to render a 300 frame flc. The look was very bad due to 8 bit color banding. (I wasn't surprised) movement was a little fast. Horizon concentration of the clouds was very realistic. Now on to Targa,…
Sequential targas or just flics for animated morphs?
Benchmarks: Ferrari set to full screen windows at 1024X768X24 Bit mode using the Metheus 4Meg card was much less than a second in the "Better". It was slower as I kept zooming in but maxed to just under a second with five zooms. Maybe you need a faster video card,…
OK! It worked very well in still rendering. Here's what I've done to get the effect: I created an oversize box(larger than viewing area). Apply the Smoke IPAS as follows: Size: any number 1000 to 2000 works well Iterations: 2 or 3 Exponent: 1.5 Speed: 0.3 Color1: 10R188G233B Cyan background…
Thanks for the reply. It wasn't for my system but for the same guy that had the AMI SCSI problem. He's been trying to get it to work and I didn't think the card is capable of emulating a targa+ as a frame buffer. I use the targa – Diaquest…
Charles, Most of us with experience on the Autodesk TS policy know better but a neophyte shouldn't get the run-around by Autodesk staffers when they call in for TS. I also feel that Autodesk is shrugging responsibility by pushing off TS to the dealers. When the original Animator first came…
Thanks for the explanation. I guess there is no significant advantage to going to another software for simple short downloads. If my speed freak friend's (seems that's all he does is do benchmark tests and try to increase performance) theory is correct I will be using something like Procomm+ for…
#Hercules Graphics Card
Message #46698
Paul: Is the Herc Superstation XP a true frame buffer? It is reported to have 640X480X24Bit color out in NTSC resolution composite video. Can it be used as a replacement for the Targa+ in a typical 3DS disk to VTR animation setup softVTR etc. ? How would this XP differ…
I had some time late last night to load the Gryphon Morph. I installed it on my 486-66 with the new Metheus 928 S3 4 meg VRAM on a stacker IDE drive. I'm using Windows for Workgroups with QEMM DBF=2, RAM, EMB=31000 + X='s, (I've eliminated stealth because it slows…
Would you please explain how TAPCIS will save $$$. I currently use WINCIM and can download all current messages as well as the ones to me by marking them globally then Retreive marked and sign off all automatically. Reading and responding are done offline. I typically spend 1-3 minutes online…
Might work if the bottom of the box could be hidden behind some buildings or other visual obstruction and the top and sides of the box would be outside the viewing picture area. I'll try it this weekend. If it works you can buy the module with assurance.
John Faust: CD-ROM Demo Fax info to: 904-354-4055 Thanks Don Landis
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