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3ds to video

    19-Mar-93 21:57:51
Sb: #37645-3ds to video
Fm: buck crowley 71031,2770
To: Brian Rudolph [Adesk] 71722,170
I just bought the RocTec Video Card from Tiger Software (1-800-888-4437) It is high color (65,536 colors) up to 800×600 and up to 1024×768-256. It has S-VHS output(to RS-170 spec) and Video Genlock input overlay. Cost is $399.00 It has an external fader (between Video in and VGA) slider control ($99.00). I have been using various VGA-to-NTSC converters (cheap ones for two years with good results). When 3DS2 renders a still it shows the results in high color. So I do all my action shots in 256 colors and put all my pauses in hi-color. I do all my output in real time from RAM (16Megs) or from a 10ms 1.2Gbyte drive ($3000) and a 8 Meg smart disk cashe($2000). I can render 5 to 10 seconds in real time without a disk seek glitch. I just hook these segments together to make the final video. By putting my money in Disk and cashe I get a fast developing system too. Buck