CompuServe Messages

A worksation would not be a wise idea, they are cheap enough, it's the price of the software that would kill me. I have a AD516 and AD1012 that really loves to suck up harddrive space in a hurry. I work in 40 minute blocks at a time. My faithful Video Toaster cranks out animations 600 frames at a time. I then need to make a modified version of each frame in a post op type function. One little animation uses up 715 megs of data just for the pics. The sound bytes add up to about 380 megs of working room. Since I do have the luxury of a 68040 I also get it's curse which lets me do multiple variations on a theme, and I find it difficult to hit the delete button on a nice fat 20 meg animation. Even if it was "just a test". Moving mega-chunks of data off a harddrive quickly is critical for doing evaluations with DCTV and big delta moves. This is to go live off the drive straight onto tape. No single-framing here, just brute force and speed. My little 426 meg SCSI II drive can barely keep up. I am not alone. –Paul < Motorola Inside >