CD Writes
The thing you have to remember is that video does not use full 24 bit
colour. If it did try to display it, you'd be getting alot of illegal
colour hits. HAM8 may use a 24 bit palette, but the colour displayed is
roughly equivalent to 18 bit colour. The same can be said of the VT
display. When you are looking at a render, even with the higher
resolutions, you are looking at an 18 bit colour display (NTSC legal).
I have played around with HAM8. It is far better than DCTV, and if you use
Imagemaster features, you can push the envelope of quality in HAM8. The
resolutions may not match up with all of the Video Toaster's, but HAM8 is
still broadcast quality when dumped to tape through a decent encoder or
genlock.
I, personally, like the PSFC use better than realtime animation recording,
as I might need to use the SMPTE time code to lay down an accurate audio
track to go with the accurate frames recorded.
-= Vance =- Image Master
using Black Belt Systems' Imagemaster!