CompuServe Messages

Suresh, When you write images back to the PAR's DDR device, PAR will automaticly recognize it's own file structure and thereby prevent "recompression". There is one option you might watch out for; FILTER, which can be disabled from a control panel. This option is used for removing NTSC artifacting of video images such as grabbed framestores from Toaster. If you are processing PAR images individually in something like ADPRO, there is always a possiblity that the file structure will be different and the images may suffer some minor artifacting depending on the Block limit and Q factor settings. The quality of the real time video capture of the TBCIV-PAR combo is quite good. I dumped some Bcam footage to the PAR recently and could not see ANY visible difference from the source material. My understanding is that there IS a physical difference between the PC versions and Amiga versions of the PAR. They are not interchangeable. The output quality of the PAR's component connections are excellent. I had a custom cable made for my portable BetaSP deck (BVW-35) to allow recording of the Y, r-Y, b-Y signals, and the resulting images are far better than either the composite or "S" outputs. I assume you understand that the PAR's output only plays back anims and NOT the regular Toaster video output. One of the Major advantages of recording images to a device such as the PAR is recording image files to disk as opposed to using the Toaster's framebuffers for display. On older Toasters, the output quality of the video images are not clean as on the 4000 version of the board. Frank