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#Matrox Animation Xpress

    24-Mar-95 23:14:19
Sb: #Matrox Animation Xpress
Fm: Maan (Mark) Kurdi 73707,1471
To: all
Anyone using the Matrox Animation Express bundle? It is a bundle consisting of a Matrox Illuminator Pro card, a Rapid Technology Studio Express card. From what I've heard, this combination will create "jpeg streams" from 3D Studio that it saves to a large SCSI hard drive through the EISA bus, then allow you to "replay the finished product straight to video without frame by frame animation. It seems to be very finicky, and requires certain hard drives, eisa SCSI adapters and eisa motherboards for it to work to its best capacity. It seems like overkill to me. Are there any other solutions that offer a better bang for the buck? We're not really interested in getting very high end broadcast output from this (another department in the college does that already, and they're already going for one of these neat systems), we're more interested in a kind of "medium" end. Any advice on this would be appreciated. Mark K. Mark K.