This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Don't forget the Infinite from the now chapter 11 Chyron. IMHO they deserve to be in trouble, an arrogant company who treated their customers poorly and traded on their name, not their technology for years. Keith
Walt; I am the general manager of a fairly large video post house (6 edit rooms, 4 studios, 2 Telecine bays, 3 Graphics suites), and let me tell you first, THE COMPITITION IS STIFF! The graphics people tend to come from either an art school or film animation background. Getting…
Victor; It is easy to not go bankrupt with the Amiga, or, as an alternative, go insane with the IBM Pee Cee. The Amiga is the best of both worlds in some respects, inexpensive software, graphics intensive, multitasking and still somewhat a hackers paradise. Have fun, go Amiga!
Pete; Even the 5850 can be modified to use address track code by adding the alpha audio mod. VITC can be carried by any deck since it is on a line in the vertical interval of video, however, special readers are required to seperate the lines and decode the SMPTE…
Marc; There are seperate gain and chroma level controls for each input, but, unfortunatly, the problem is internal to each of the channels. We were disappointed, even for a low price unit. Again, maybe the thing was just not adjusted right from the factory, that is, if there are internal…
John; We pay about $50/hr for 1" premium grade stock, which in Sony is, I believe V1-K, not sure about V-16SP. D-2 digital stock started out at about $110/hr almost two years ago but is now down to $63/hr. Isn't it wonderful when things go down in price? Videotape almost…
Bill; They brought it in yesterday and it was….. well dissapointing. At first glance it passed video and the TBC did fine with a non capstan locked 3/4" machine. It even did OK in shuttle and search modes where some TBCs just give up. On the signal processing side, though,…
Christopher; Yes composite degrades pristine RGB 24 bit video, however, not in the same ways as less than 24 bit schemes. The result is unaceptable quantizing errors and severe color distortion in subtle shading situations. All our graphics originate in full 24 bit, with the exception of Amiga real time…
Dan; If you mean to use an optical disk for real time playback of color pictures, I'm afraid you will have to wait either for MUCH higher throughput or very efficient compression hardware. Currently, there are some offline editing systems which use the optical drives to record real time video,…
Dennis; Yes, somewhat shabby treatment, but, not that unusual these days of over or preselling product. A client is bringing the Shomi dual TBC/Framestore for evaluation tomorrow. Our engineering dept. will check out its signal handling and stability. Let you know, Keith
Whap!
Message #2659
Betty; I'm on with Whap!, thought I had already tried deleting the SEC file, but, tried again and we're on the air. Thanks for the help. Keith
Bill; Another comment here, beware, the toaster takes over the Amiga video when it plugs into the video port. Our engineering dept. had to make some major mods to our Omicron genlock to get the two working together. The toaster is by it's nature a genlock and has first dibs…
Access
Message #92911
John, Oh so it is directly above the vertical line…… that would help explain why Access didn't seem to know the script even existed, I was putting it one to the right of the mark. I'll move it over and try again, thanks. Keith /exit ith your format, thanks again.…
Access
Message #92907
Gary, Thanks a lot for the sample script, one thing that I have been doing which may have been messing it up is putting the | character (if this didn't print on CServe it was ) withing the same quotes as the line of text. I'll try again with your…
2400 Baud
Message #87034
To All; I am using a Supra Modem 2400 (external) on a 2000 with Diga! software. When signing onto local BBS everything works great at 2400 baud but when I sign on to Compuserve it always goes to a 1200 baud connect. All the public domain software works OK. I…