CompuServe Messages

Paul wrote: The Tocatta has to render everything, just like the Vlab/M, EVEN FADES, which is totally ridiculous. I've taken to not dealing with mixing at all on the Vlab, and dumping my cut video with sound to my deck to a tape striped with time code and then using my Ad516 to do mixing and fading and multi-track stuff. This is unfortunate because it's a 2-stage process, because it takes up an extra slot that I don't have, and because I really needed to sell the Ad516 to get some money back when I bought the Vlab/M and Tocatta. — I cannot fully agree. Ofcause, with Movieshop You must render all Audio fades. But it doesn't take a long time, especially compared to the time for rendering video fades. And Your two-stage-audio-processing will probably take more time than the simple audio rendering under Movieshop. Not to speak about the fact that it will be much more complicated to achieve synchronized Audio and Video. I wrote: >>This is a limitation of AmigaDOS.<< Paul wrote: Not true. AFAIK, that was an old limitation. Now AmigaDOS can handle partitions up to 4GB. Not true. This limitation is unfortunately still present. It has been confirmed by Macrosystems and has been also confirmed by myself after fiddling around with different Harddisk-Hostadapters and Harddisks. regards Dirk Taggesell