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#PAR Excellence…

    05-Mar-94 20:09:26
Fm: Don Landis 71673,3612
To: John Ellis 72440,3046
>> aren't you the spokesman for this product? <g> I'm just here to keep you honest. <BG> No! I'm not. If the PAR didn't perform I would have just as quickly come down on the other side on this device. But, I was pretty sure because I did a pretty thorough job of checking it out first and as you said with people like Greg and Gus in the development of this for the PC we were in pretty safe hands. >> Now if you'd said the PAR would replace Hi-8 or SVHS frame by frame, I think you'd have a strong case, but you didn't. <BG> Actually I never said the "PAR" was going to replace anything. What I did say was that real time animation recording was going to replace frame by frame. I never gave the PAR credit for anything other than being first to replace FBF at the lower end and I did say that the higher end is already being done by the Abekas. Of course the record on this in in my thread archives is clear and it has been said that FBF will never die and will always be the main way we record animation. Sure, I agree with this just like I agreed with an old professor in college that told me to "learn the slide rule well because you'll be using one the rest of your enginneering career. " What a joke! As far as the GPI trigger for playback goes: I didn't mean to imply that I actually had to do the insert edit too it's just that in order for the trigger to work "I" would have to set it up that way. Your deck is more suited for this purpose. To use it here would be just an inconvenience requiring too much setup. I do like your 0 wait for an option as well. I could see this as necessary in some cases. Such as Gregs no preroll LDR.