CompuServe Messages

John, >They got a way to go with the s/w before youcould call it 'Friendly'. Agreed. Having mastered both Imagine and Imagemaster certainly provided good training before tackling VLM! 😉 But this go around is much better than the first release and I would imagine that development is continuing since the VLM is also an important of the DraCo. Besides there is just NO other system that can do what VLM does at anywhere near the price. Feeding your toaster into the VLM is a great idea. Since both the toaster and the VLM suport a full Arexx command set some REALLY clever person could write a nice attractive, user friendly, front end that would intergrate both. >Can I capture Frames instead of fields? Good question! I know that while importing you can choose either frames or fields, and that the original V-LAB also gave that choice when grabbing, but I'll have to check out the VLM. >Perhaps you can e-mail me a Settings Archive Well there are not that many settings. I am now using a jpeg quality setting of 75% with a an audio setting of 16bit/48000hz. (BTW I've found I NEED to use this full quality audio setting if I want to if I want to mix multiple audio tracks on the timeline.) I enable auto smoothing in the video settings with one notch of both vertical and horizotal smoothing. I've set 10 megs for the video buffer and 1 meg for the audio buffer. All other settings are left with their defaults. >The VLAB-M is an outstanding h/w deal. But I wouldn't want to have to dependon they're s/w to run my whole video graphics workstaion yet :^) At a professional level – agreed. But right in the manual they state that the developers consider this a "prosumer" product and that they are working on a true "pro" version. We'll just have to see what develops in the future. The very fact that MacroSystem is creating their own Amiga clone is a good sign that they intend on pushing AMIGA VLM forward rather jumping ship and developing for another platform. …Warp Engine Engaged… -Paul-