This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#Dealer deserving thanks
Message #121739
I want to commend Hank Teller for excellent work repairing an ailing and 4000 with a troubled history and many boards. His service was excellent, he kept me in touch with the progress daily via Email and kept trying to solve the trickier specialized problems. Notable mention to John Foust…
#4091 & Exabyte
Message #119189
John, Still trying to unarchive my 100 gigs of Exabyte. A US dealer is working on my 4000 machine but cant get the 4091 back working with the external Exabyte drive. I have sent him a spare 2091 which is easier to set up; but do you happen to know…
4091 & Tape Backup
Message #119188
Does anyone know the right settings to make a 4091 controller work with an external Exabyte drive? There is no Flyer involved. Just an ordinary backup–4091 with external SCSI. The manual settings are not working. It is a tricky setup as previously only the 2091 worked. This did work with…
Orange Screen on Start]
Message #47531
My Amiga 4000-040 networked to two MIPS for animation rendering timed out unusually. Now only orange screen flashes on startup then nothing. The HD light flashes at regular 3 sec intervals which is abnormal. And the se4cond HD doesnt kick in. 4000-040, SCSI II adaptor, 4091, megachip, Ethernet, Toaster card,…
Orange Screen on Start
Message #47486
My Amiga 4000 timed out while networked, as usual, to two MIPS machines for animation rendering. I now get a flash of orange screen on start-up, then nothing with the hard drive light flashing at regeular 4 second intervals instead of its usual noise followed by loud whirling of the…
Thanks,I will try that. But I found that if I combined my dozen(s) of short clips (totalling 3-4minutes) within PAR when I knew they were to be cut straight together anyway–then in Razor, I absolutely had no problem. But I will try your suggestion. Chris/Technofilm
Thanks, John. I will try that version–there are several listed in "find file". Let's hope it is straightforward. Thanks, Chris
John, Just got your message about TAR-no you didnt answer that question a year ago–but I should have asked it. One that I know has been often discussed–but I didnt note down– cant find and I know you'd know if anyone does–tho its a different kind of file transfer–is do…
Thanks for the info Mike. Sometime, off the record, I would be interested to know what sort of work you do. Thanks for all your great help. Chris/Technofilm
Thanks again. I will try. I also shortened the audio and had success–when you have a minute, I'd like to know what drive(s) you have on PAR but thats not urgent–just curiosity. Thanks, Chris
#PAR-Razor RAM
Message #176684
Mike, Your help again. I am having memory problems loading 30 second PAR clips with 6 minutes worth of music WAV file. I have only 24 MB RAM on this Pentium 90. Do I need more RAM or is it just not being assigned properly? What precisely do I need…
You could have fooled me–you've been a great help. Ive got the latest PAR but my current backup software doesnt see extra or network drives and it doesnt see the PAR drive. I will try to setup my Exabyte but for now I will just transfer the files to another…
Almost, Mike. I should have paid more attention to all those PAR backup messages. I have Colorado Lite QIC 80 on this PC–I usually use my Exabyte Drvive but I had trouble in the 2 seconds I spent set it up. Can I get the QIC 80 to work if…
Mike, The problem may be that I havent seen Razor-PAR comb work except for mine and I am expecting something wrong. I just assumed (WITHOUT THINKING) that all my previews would play on my huge "PAR" screen. Not just the final output. As if I want to take the time…
I tried Mike's suggestion. I changed the preview compression from Microsoft 1 to same as final being PAR. No luck, error messages: Specified final output settings are not supported by this new file format, unable to wrrite file: c:\RAZOR\PREVIEW.AVI" and "AVEDITOR caused General Protection Fault: AVIRZF.RZF. Any suggestions, Thanks, Chris/Technofilm
Dear Mike, Just checked the In:Sync settings. I was on Microsoft 1 compression. I have changed to Get from Final settings which are for PAR. This still isnt working for previews–I get the following error messages: "Specified final output settings are not supported by this file format. Unable to write…
Thanks Eron, The hard drive, external, just seems to be step-down transformer sensitive. I am getting the final render playback via PAR from Razor. I will double check the compression but I think the settings are fine. As long as I can get the final, I can keep working. I…
Thanks, Mike That sounds like a very likely fix. When I do render the final from Razor it connects and outputs via PAR just fine. The external hard drive seems to work when it is getting its own power supply–no power intensive exabyte drives on, etc. (Working on US NTSC…
#PAR-Razor fast previews
Message #175760
Problems have developedon my new PAR-Razor with fast previews. It worked once. Now only the first sequence in the editing composition window shows via PAR. When the preview is rendering, each frame jerks on the screen but no change. The preview only plays via the player and not via "par".…
Gaps 'tween PAR seqnces
Message #174514
For final output, until now all my animation were under 2.5 minutes recorded from PAR or exported D1 via tape to the post house. I now want to assemble 40 minutes of a animated programme from PAR to tape–just an SVHS recording test(Panosonic 7750) but how to I record the…
NT IRQ Easy Fix
Message #173714
We solved some installation problems–IRQ problems in a Pentium 90 with lots of cards: Monterey sound, Future Domain SCSi adapter. PAR, etc In case anyone has a similar problem—briefly: There are 4 ISA slots–old, standard, IRQs set on board. There are 4 PCI slots–new, IRQs assigned at the slot. The…
We are having similar WinNT set-up problems but with WinNT not recognising a Future Domain SCSI card, the Monterey(which is part Tahiti board) has an IRQ set at 10). All our boards are recognised WinNT boards but still problems. This doesnt help you much but obviously it is a common…
Dear Jamie, I also did not receive the TransJammer transitions?FX for the Razor Pro purchased two weeks ago from NWTech near Seattle. Razor Pro is fantastic even without them and the product needs to be made even better known… If you can do anything… Chris Horn Technofilm 29A Whitcomb Street…
Need PAR
Message #168314
I am having trouble finding a dealer with a new PAR (in the USA) available within the next week and a half. Preferably in the Seattle area. Email me, or Scott Horn via CompuServ asap. Thanks, Chris
Thanks Bob for the info. It sounds a possible but as I must order the board today I may go with the Monterey. I too have hours of lip sync ahead under the same impossible circumstances–so when am I going to have time to play games anyway…thanks, Chris
#Turtle Beach/Razor Pro
Message #166991
Is there an alternative to Turtle Beach Monterey for PAR/RAZOR PRO that is Soound Blaster compatible with a built-in CD-ROM controller? Thanks, Chris
As they say, watch this space. In SYNC says Turtle Beach sound card but that is before the PAR, PVR, etc NT drivers are out…. Chris
Thanks, Mike. If you hear any differently keep us informed, we are all listening. Christie
Scott, Thanks for the info–I immediately E-mailed the IN Sync rep about sound cards.. Thanks, Chris
Jamie, Thanks for the info. It was suggested I check with you about what sound cards you suggest for NT? I am trying to suss out incompatibility problems for WinNT before ordering a system in two weeks. Any suggestions are invaluable. Thanks, Chris
Mike, I would love to wait for the PVR to come out, but I have 30minutes–minutes of animation frames that need editing now (since a dealer "broke" my Amiga PAR). Converting to PCs running WinNT, I want as many NT elements as possible. The compatibility questions were a different thread…
Could you larify for me? If by some chance PAR/NT comes out before RAZ/NT can I run RAZ/Win 3.1 with PAR/NT? Also I am just purchasing a Pentium PC ; are there any obvious board incompatibilities you know of with the PAR board and the SCSI ii(prob Adaptec) board,wavetable sound…
#Razor Pro/NT PAR
Message #165770
Is Razor Pro WinNT–will it work with the soon-to-be-released WinNT PAR? Thanks, Chris
Thanks for the super info. Chris
Thanks for the info. Asking around it does seem that TAR is pretty old– I had heard it was being used by hi-end post houses to transfer particularly 3D animation files…if anyone has any ideas on any multi platform readablility to use DAT or Exabyte between different platfoThanks, Chris
#Product Search
Message #163753
I am looking for two products: TAR for the PC, Amiga and SGI that allows Targa files to be backed-up to DAT and Exabyte and read by any platformn running TAR. Also, less appropriate for this forum, software that allows Amigas to use PC-formatted external hard-drives. Thanks, Chris
#Product Search
Message #46457
I am looking for two products–TAR for the Amiga and for the PC, which Allow TARGA files to be written?read to DAT and Exabyte the read by any other machine (PC, Amiga, SGI) with TAR. And the software that allows Amigas to use external PC-formatted Hard-drives. Thanks, Christie
Sorry, David, to be obtuse, but are the NT drivers out already or do you mean that the Win16 drivers work well with PAR on WinNT machines. I'm based in London, but get my equipment in the States, UK DPS said the NT drivers were six months weeks off (they…
#PAR WinNT,PAR SCSI
Message #162976
Will the PC PAR card run now under Win16 in winNT machines? Is it just a matter of re-installing the new-to-be-released WinNT drivers or will it be more complicated? Also, is the SCSI PAR a near reality, will it have WinNT drivers, etc… Any idea how long the wait is…
Thanks Greg. On a net reading file is/or shouldn't be a problem–I havent set up the network yet (the experts I know crashed a local film studio net trying to set up TCP/IP with Amigas, MIPs, and SGIs–so I have put it off.) The agencies for file transfer in London…
Thanks for the info Greg? I will switch my LW output to Targa–but what program can I use on the PC to convert my IFF-RGBs to Targas? (I am new to the PC world–though I could convert on the Amiga with AdPro then send the files over.) I haven't decided…
#PC PAR–IFFs & LightWave
Message #158472
If?when the PC version of Lightwave is released (April) will the PC LW be able to render directly to PAR (as with the Amiga version previously). Will this be available immediately? Does the PC PAR accept only Targa or other formats, particularly IFFs, RGBs. Also is PAR available in either…
#Boot Problems with 4000
Message #42646
Thanks for the suggestions. Booting from an AmigaDos floppy doesn`t seem to help. Are there other ways –keyboard–to get into drawers to remove things….I cannot get the mouse pointer to work. It quickly changes from the pointer to the little clock as if it is working on something. Nothing seems…
#Boot Problems with 4000
Message #42627
By mistake I booted up my Amiga 4000 with a Dos disk in the floppy drive. Now when I try to boot up the workbench screen and icons appear but the pointer won`t appear–it stays the clock. There is a Video Toaster in the machine so English repair people will…
Wavelink Network Trouble
Message #77356
I re-booted and WaveLink worked perfectly. But if there is a good explanation to the error messages, I am always interested. Christie Horn
AMIGA to PC Conversion
Message #40164
Thanks for answering. I had trouble with that for some reason. In a real rush, I just bought the pre-formatted disks–PC, converted my Amiga IFF-RGB files to TIF and TARGA files took them to the agency`s Mac with PhotoShop and all was fine. I will go through the other way…
Wavelink Network Trouble
Message #77347
Does anyone at Axiom read this BBS? When installing WaveLink, two error meesages appeared on the Server machine–Network write error Net in Unit 1 and later, No disk present Net in Unit 209. Then everything seemed OK after another attempt until I tried to actually render a scene. I got…
Writing MsDOS on Amiga
Message #135285
Thank you everyone for the quick response. I will try again. Christie
#Writing MS-DOS on Amiga
Message #135202
Very basic question: writing MSDOS graphics files with an Amiga 4000. I have read the manual but I am still unclear. How do I take the Amiga formatted disk , turn it into an MS-DOS disk and write to it? Do I re-name it? Will it automatically reformat it to…
Writing MS-DOS on Amiga
Message #39947
Basic question. I need a step-by-step how to write MS-DOS graphics files to an Amiga disk. I am having trouble, or just don`t know if it is working with my 4000. From the Amiga-Dos formatted disk, do I need to reformat? do I have to change the name to PC0…
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