This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Mike, We have a list of compatible sound cards which work under Windows NT on our Web site: http://www.in-sync.com/in-sync I would recommend Turtle Beach over the other cards you mentioned, and drivers are available now for their cards. You can pick up the drivers from our Web site. Jamie Carr…
Mike, There are no drivers for the PVR or the PAR for Win 95, and DPS have not and my understanding is that DPS have not announced that they will support Win 95. The most basic difference between Razor PRO and Speed Razor is that Razor PRO has to render…
Jack, The reality is that Microsoft have not made it easy for hardware developers to develop drivers for Win 95. The driver scheme is different for Win 95 and Win NT, the driver scheme for Win 95 and Win NT is changing in a few months time, so that there…
Jack, Sorry Razor PRO can not access the PAR under Win95 for the same reason that it couldn't access the PAR when 32 bit file access was turned on in Win 3.11. Although there is a switch to turn off 32 bit file access in Win 95, it doesn't seem…
Jack, Munch, Munch, Munch ! (the sound of man eating his hat!) What I should have said was that Razor PRO works in Win95. PAR.EXE works in Win95, however they can't work together because of the 32 bit file access problem that users who were using Win 3.11 would know…
Jack, Razor PRO does work with the PAR under Win 95. If you haven't got it to work talk with Eron (301) 320 0220 and he will help you out or email him at eron@in-sync.com. Jamie Carr in:sync
Darrin, Thanks for stopping by the booth. It's great to put a face to a name. Seeing faces instead of names on ASOFT was a welcome treat at the ASOFT party. Jamie in:sync
Tom, As Windows 3.1 is fading fast (enter Windows 95 and Windows NT) driver writers and application developers have moved their attention to the new 32 bit operating systems rather than support a flagging hard to program O/S. We have put deck control into out Windows NT version of Razor…
Peter, We have had our heads down for a while working on our NT version and the Perception version in particular. All will be revealed shortly. We are having a major rollout at Siggraph. You will be able to see the Perception running on a variety of machines from Intel…
Craig, Yep, that Aspen is a real smoker ! The timings I quoted were for a single frame of video. Most DVE moves that we do are for 10 to 15 frames, however when the image gets smaller it takes less time to render so you probably will see a…
Gary, There are two ways to keep an image on the timeline for a number of frames. 1) Stretch the image along the timeline. A still can only be stretched in one direction. Try the other direction to make this work. 2) Use the freeze frame effect. This effect allows…
Christie, You need to make sure that you have 530k of conventional memory in DOS. Go into DOS, at the prompt type MEM. If your conventional memory is less than 530k use MEMMAKER to fix this. Type MEMMAKER at the prompt and this should work. Jamie Carr in:sync
Bob, Actually under NT there will not be a new file created with either the PERCEPTION or the PAR. If you doing a straight cut with two files then once you have placed the two items on the time line you will be able to hit play and see the…
Brendan, We are absolutely supporting the existing PAR/TBCIV system. We released a new version of our Windows 3.1 version two weeks ago – version 1.0f. We are releasing another upgrade to our Windows 3.1 – version 2.0 in the next two weeks. This version has been developed alongside our existing…
Andy, DPS has released the PAR VCR which allows you to record and playback video from Windows. See their BBS, our BBS or our Web page: in:sync BBS (301) 320 0338 in:sync web page http://www.in-sync.com/in-sync Jamie Carr in:sync
Craig, We took our most complicated effect, the orientation effect which allows you to adjust the rotation of an image in the X, Y and Z axes (amongst other things) and we applied it to a 640×480 image. I should explain that we have more than one type of orientation…
Mark, We are waiting not for the release of Perception but the release of the NT drivers for Perception. They are being tested by DPS as I write but they are not yet complete. As soon as they are ready we will be implementing the final piece of the puzzle.…
Doug, OK. I have done some research on the gamma stuff and here's the lowdown. 3D Studio is an image generation program. Razor PRO is not an image generation program its a compositor and editor. When images are generated (eg rendered) it is best to do any gamma corrections at…
Paul, The good/bad thing is that we have been working with some sound cards that are proprietary to the machines which we are working with. eg DEC alpha sound cards, PowerPC sound cards, proprietary cards for a dual Pentium machine we have. Creative Labs and Media Vision have drivers shipping…
James, There is a file called MSNT.ZIP in the Classic section of the Turtle Beach BBS. The driver only does the midi stuff right now but the guy who wrote it said that he was going to work on the wav stuff as well. Turtle Beach say on their BBS…
Paul, We just heard on the grape vine that a ingenious person outside of Turtle beach has written drivers for their cards for NT – I will try and find out more information tomorrow during the day and let you know what the latest is. Jamie Carr in:sync
Doug, Here is a copy of the reply that I sent to you last week: Tolek, Very sorry to hear that you are having problems with RAZOR PRO. I hope that I can help you resolve them. If you are not already using version 1.0d of RAZOR PRO you will…
Mitch, the best way of seeing this problem is for you to send me a few frames from the piece you have captured. I am very surprised you are not getting the results you expect. If you could send me perhaps 5 frames from the whole piece to my compuserve…
Alan, In the old days – a large part of any IBM system was the air conditioning system. PCs haven't had heat problems in the past because of the slow speeds at which the ran, but now with the faster clock speeds and the increased amount of circuitry in a…
Dennis. DPS have massively increased production to cope with the demand – you shouldn't see a shortage of boards… Jamie Carr in:sync
John, We are running the PAR MCI drivers version 1.11 without any hitches. Its very important to note that the PAR installation program for version 1.5 incorrectly changes the AUTOEXEC.BAT so that the second forward slash is removed even if it was correctly installed before you ran the installation program.…
Craig, Aspen Systems contact: Randy Perry randyp@aspsys.com (303) 431 4606 x107 > By the way if your alpha version really works as fast and effecient as I hope >it will how would you like some testamonial advertising/marketing from the guy >who traded his VideoCube for RP? Made you smile, now…
Mitch, Ummm, if the blue on the edges is not being caught by the chroma key effect that it is not in the same color range as the background. This would suggest that the edges are getting contamination from light reflecting from a surface in front of the actors/actresses which…
Alan, There's more benefit to aiming a fan at the Micropolis drive than the PAR card. The drive is the thing that generates the most heat. Jamie Carr in:sync
Alec, Intermittent problems like the one you are describing point to a fault of some sort in the hardware. Have you thought about asking DPS to check the card and drive for you ? If you could spare to have them test it for you they could probably narrow down…
Mitch, > Sounds great, but this project has a lot more than cuts-only editing. It is a >very complex 8 minute piece. Is it possible to make the end section a separate >.ani and then create a new project joining the two without creating a new file? >Is this feature…
Andrew, Massive changes are in the works for our NT version. The June release will include EDL output, machine control, real time playback of cuts only edits, much,much faster performance (even on equivalent machines) a project based library. 3.1 users should note that we will be releasing a new improved…
Craig, The longest video tape that we have seen edited with RAZOR PRO was 1 1/2 hours. As the editor was using the PAR he had to string together each 10-15 min segment using the GPI trigger. (Of course once you can use the SCSI drives, this problem goes away)…
Craig, When you weigh the fact that the amount of money you spend on the AVID or the IMMIX is several times the amount you would spend on a RAZOR PRO system then there is no reason why if you want near/real time performance you can't up the processor for…
Mitch, I see that Mike has explained the relative mode so I'll help you with the chroma key. Set the blend value to zero. Then adjust the threshold value. Once the threshold is set correctly then adjust the blend value. This will give you great results. Jamie Carr in:sync
Patrick, Your bundled transitions are on the way…please hold on Jamie Carr in:sync
Brendan, Globe trotting is right – I think I've been in a different city every week since January. The new PAR VCR works great…see the DPS bbs. Jamie Carr in:sync
Craig, Yes, RAZOR PRO does keep the audio and the video together once it has been captured together and yes people are dropping AVID systems like flies to move to RP. But you ain't seen nothing yet – wait till you see the new release. (June 1) Jamie Carr in:sync
Carlton. Putting RP on a 486 will not affect the speed of editing only the speed of creating (rendering) transitions and effects. Jamie Carr in:sync
Alec. Are you still having crashes now ? Did anyone help you with your PAR crashing problems ? Maybe I can help – I've been using the PAR for a while and I'm pretty familiar with it. Could you let me know your system specifications (hard drive size, what software…
Mitch The new version of RAZOR PRO handles this easily. It doesn't build a new file when you make a project with only straight cuts or frame freezes and so it will solve this problem… Stand by for the new release…around June 1. Jamie Carr in:sync
John, RAZOR PRO does the compositing your asking for… "alpha channeled objects that are keyframable around the screen (like old Rio Animator, but 90's), with automatic dropshadowing. Interactive levels, transparency, etc. with a positional light source. So you can put a dot somewhere on the screen, and it'll move the…
Tim, "I think that if a good compositing program came out on the PC, something to rival Aftereffects or Wavefront Composer" We have Wavefront Composer users call us all the time saying that they used to run Composer and they're now running RAZOR PRO because its got the same features,…
Andrew, You will be able to run the PAR on an NT machine once DPS release the drivers for NT. The current version of RAZOR doesn't run under NT but we are working on a new version which should be ready June 1st which has been optimised for NT. Its…
Andrew, "What kind of rights do you need for the Demo reel. ?" All we would be looking for is the ability to show the work at the show, we wouldn't be after a lifelong commitment or anything like that. Let me know if you are interested. Jamie Carr in:sync
John, We have been adding a lot of new features to the NT version as well as some fairly considerable improvements to the speed. Obviously we will take advantage of mutliple processors if your system has them as well as parallel processing (DEC style). You will see some really massive…
Don, We have a really powerful chroma keyer in our current version. Because its not having to work in real time we do some special calculations which make the result look better than most studios chroma keyers. Jamie Carr in:sync
Mike, Thanks for providing Carlton with the info – FYI – NT version June 1 Stand by for the specs….they really kick… Jamie Carr in:sync
Carlton, If you have internet access we have recently started our Web page: http:/www.in-sync.com/in-sync which contains the latest information on our product, FAQs and an easy way to contact our techical gurus. Jamie Carr in:sync
Don, Sorry its been a while before replying, I've just about dug myself out of all the post show work. Thank you very much for your kind words about RAZOR PRO. We have seen a fantastic response to the product and we are being deluged with tapes from people who…
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