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#Flyer Specs

    02-Jan-95 01:17:38
Sb: #180070-#Flyer Specs
Fm: daniel wolf 70250,626
To: henry teller 73244,2610
Hank, be sure to only load Toaster Effect croutons from some regular hard drive (NOT a Flyer drive). Flyer won't be able to both play video AND load a Toaster Effect crouton from a Flyer drive at the same time – hence the error. The Flyer checks IN ADVANCE of playing a project whether the series of Clip/Effect/Clip/Effect… can actually be played (some special tricks have to be done if successive clips are on the same Flyer drive) without errors and will tell you you have too short of a clip between two effects or such if it can't make it. Try adjusting the 'out' point of a clip preceding such an effect or try setting the effect's 'speed' to FAST to get around that type of error. I will not, in general, be able to answer lots of specific Flyer questions on this Forum unless CIS decides to let me on here for free. I certainly don't mind trying to answer, but I've got a feeling LOTS of questions are about to arise and this forum is a CIS business. The Flyer is AMAZING. I've been working on special direct Flyer control software for special applications (e.g. control over a serial line, etc.) and it is a terrific tool. Good luck – the 3.9 Toaster version went to CDROM pressing recently and should be out in the next few days (it has the latest Flyer software rev with it, of course). Tim Jenison told me Friday that all around it is even better than the version they used at the LA VTU Expo Flyer demos. For those requiring special programming or consulting services related to Flyer, please contact me by EMail.