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NewTek in Conference!
Message #122349
Folks, We are pleased to present another formal conference with NewTek, Inc. featuring Tim Jenison, Chuck Baker, Jim Parsons, and this time, Marty Fleckinger, one of the Flyer's programmers. Please join us September 24th in the DeskTop Video Forum (GO DTVFORUM) at 9:00pm Eastern time for this occasion. We will…
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Byte articles on 3D
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hehe -John
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Byte articles on 3D
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Thanks for the pointer John! I'll have to read a Byte. I don't think I've even read JP in years. -John
Michael, Why do you want to use both the Flyer and the FAST to edit the video? If you are thinking that you need to redigitize the Flyer edited video to remain in the digital domain for M-JPEG conversion, and love the Flyer's quality/interface I guess I can see it,…
Ron, There are dedicated sound-board/software combinations that many pros use, on of the most popular is made by a company called digi-designs. However, previously here on this forum, some folks have said that a product called SAW, which works with a variety of consumer level sound cards does a good…
Tim, You might also post some of the problems that you are having with the VM Lite here. I am pretty familiar with it and there are lots of others here too. -John
Patricio, DPS's phone number is (USA) 606-371-5533. They have a European office in Surrey in the U.K. at 01252-718300. -John
Thanks a lot, James! -John
Jeff, I am trying to say that you can buy a good M-JPEG board for two thousand or so and then use a non real-time MPEG encoder, like XingCD, to create MPEG files as opposed to spending the $15k+ to buy a real time MPEG encoder. For the folks that…
oops, I didn't mean that the OS itself "can be recompiled for a whole number of CPUs" but applications. -John
Peter, Have you tried your word-processor? If you can set your background color (page color) to black or whatever your screen border color is, and your text to white (or anything other than black), it should work with most overlay genlocks. Windows itself provides True Type scalable outline fonts that…
David, I am not sure about wether or not the Alladin will work under Windows 95 now, however by release I am sure that it will. Currently it does not have a driver for Windows NT, which requires that all hardware devices have a software driver that does the low-level…
Nice catch, Jeff. Yes, the double encoding to digital format will degrade the quality compared to a straight-through MPEG encoder. However, if you can keep the quality high on the first encoding, it ?probably? isn't a too significant loss and as I understand it, real-time MPEG encoders are $15k+ while…
Steve, One of the best "broadcast quality" video capture/playback cards on the market is the DPS Personal Animation Recorder. The card itself is about $2k, the TBC-IV which gives you the video capture is about a grand, and a nice 1GB or so HD, (about 5-7 minutes on-line) is about…
Try Library 3, news and reviews, here, and check your dealers for New Media and Digital Video magazines. -John
Kevin, IMHO S-VHS done well is entirely broadcastable. However most broadcasters do require 3/4-1"-Beta now-a-days. You could pick up your machine and take it to a post house that has beta, or rent a beta deck for a day. Or get a good hi-speed modem… :-; -John
Paul, Look in lib 8 (Windows/NT Tools). There are a number of .avi etc., players there. -John
John, MPEG and M-JPEG are simply to digital compression/encoding formats. Theoretically, once you get the (video) data to a digital form, it can be converted from any format to any format. Now, that said, it does sound like MPEG is going to become the standard for digital video playback via…
David, For professional looking results, in a non-linear editing environment, you will need a video capture/playback card that works at resolutions greater than 640×480 and that can capture 60 fields per second with 24bit color resolution. The DPS PAR card is a good choice in this range of capture cards.…
Patricio, You basically need a better capture/playback card. I have had good experiences with the DPS Personal Animation Recorder combined with their TBC IV and Razor software. The hardware will sell for somewhere around $2900 + dedicated IDE harddrive and I think the software is about $700. -John
Timothy, While there is probably good shareware do what you ask, I thought I'd just drop in a plug here for WinImages FX/Morph from Blackbelt systems. It is an awesome product at 10 times the price. The price, $99.95 retail. -John
Michael, Re: the FAST interface to the Alladin. Theoretically that is in the 2.0 release of the FAST software (available on MultiBven). However they do not seem to document the connection. I assume that it is GPI, meaning I have to get FAST's $1300 or so GPI box, but I…
Welome to the DTV Forum, John -John
David, Two devices come immediately to mind, the Pinnacle Alladin (very toasterish) and the Fast Video Machine. Both are excellent products and each has different strong points. The Fast Video Machine works very well as an edit-controller and the Alladin's integrated graphics (integrated CG and Paint) as well as its…
John, You seem to want a device called an "overlay genlock". This device will allow you to overlay whatever you can get up on your rgb monitor onto an incoming video source and then output the combined signal for recording on video tape. Many of the current "Windows Video Capture…
Bernard, You might take a look at a new product called the Perception board with the AD-2500 Input module from DPS, Inc. This is a PCI based video capture board with broadcast quality input and output from Composite-Y/C-Component sources. It should work with Adobe Premiere when it is released and…
David, There is a device called the Movie Machine from Fast Electronics that I believe will do what you want to do, create a main and inset picture. It takes two video inputs and I believe that it comes with software that would allow you to create a picture in…
Hi Tammy, welcome to the DTV Forum! -John
Mitch, While others here may give you some tips/tricks for getting better quality out of the Miro DC1, I thought that I might point out that at its very best the DC1 and other boards that capture at 320x240ish or so with high compression algorithms will give you a much…
Steve will jump in if I am wrong here, but I think that the sysops do not have the power to credit a user for usage time. I think that the proper procedure for you to follow is to "go feedback" and leave them a message explaining what has happened.…
Chris, The Perception is going to be a PCI based Playback board (with the optional real-time video capture daughtercard it is also a recorder) with composite, component, and S-video outputs and (optionally) inputs. They say that their 10bit, 2x oversampled video encoding will provide >60db bandwidth video for very crisp,…
Doug, I am not sure about this (at all) but you may have a problem using 1024×768 and an encoder for video. All of the encoders that I have seen for PC's pretty much require that the host system be running in 640x480ish resolution. -John
That's good news for Toaster lovers! -John
If the machines are located close to each other a network would be the best solution. If they are not close to each other, but all machines sport a scsi interface, I'd get a nice external 2giger or so that I can carry from machine to machine.
James, Thankfully there are lots of choices today for broadcast quality Desktop Video Production. If you can find them in your area I would definately have a look at the NewTek Video Toaster, Fast Video Machine, Pinnacle Alladin, DPS PAR/Perception with Adobe Premiere or Razor. Fast and NewTek can be…
Thanks a lot John! -John
Drew, I have seen promotional literature and video tapes on the ChromaKey+ but have never tried to key with it myself. The promotional video looked o.k., not totally proffesional, but usable. I am pretty sure that it does not require a toaster, but it probably requires an overlay genlock device…
Welcome to the DTV Forum, Rob!
Steve, A Video Capture device like "Snappy" from Play, Inc. or the Movie Machine from Fast Electronics would allow you to "snap" a picture from a video source like a camcorder and then save the result into a file. This file could then be accessed by various programs, including databases,…
Aha, William. You need "sequencing" software, I'll call it. Packages like Adobe Premiere, Curtain Call, and others (that I can not think of now) will do this for you. Someone else may jump in with more constructive suggestions. -John
John, To capture video for Multi-media and or Video applications you can buy anything from $500 cards to $5000 cards. The resulting digitized video can be converted in a digital form down to a common denominator format for mass distribution while the original data retains its highest resolution. You probably…
Craig & Bob, PMFJI, When you say plug your camera into your TV (and it looks o.k.) and then look at the tape (and it is noisy) does that mean that people that shoot Hi-8 and possibly SVHS are going to get a huge boost in quality by recroding straight…
I'm sorry to here that, Tim, good luck in your future projects!
I believe that I have heard here that "Video for Windows" version x.xx will allow you to record Windows screens to .avi/etc. as you navigate applications. I think that this feature is included in an online version available _somewhere_ here online. Hopefully someone will come up with better information.
John, There are a number of CD video encoding formats available. Some are used for multi-media (distributed via computer) applications and some are made for watching on TV. What is your application for this CD-ROM? -John
Michael, Why not take the images in digital format (floppy disk, syquest, etc.) over to the Flyer/Fast for editing? Save the whole digital to analog conversion process for your final output to tape. -John
I can't think of a cost effective way to use an RGB monitor as an NTSC monitor, an encoder would cost more than a new NTSC monitor.
If you want to overlay titles and graphics onto existing video tape then you want to look at video boards that have an "overlay" capability. There are Overlay Genlock cards that do only this, and there are Video Capture Cards that also have an "overlay" functionality. The Fast Movie Machine…
Thanks for the information, Dean! -John
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