CompuServe Messages

Joao, correct, the PAR is not high end quality, but for that price it's absolutely stunning. As I suggested, you can have non compressed video with an Abekas. They store in uncompressed, but you will have to pay for that. I have had the Matrox system here for a review in a magazine. I also went to a studio who makes comuter animations. They have a compression ratio of 1:8 and we couldn't see any difference to Betacam single frame recording. Matrox can also record a YUV input. The PAR can do the same with an additional card. I only suggested the PAR because I think it's the best thing you can get for the money right now. (The whole Matrox thing is a lot more). You can have uncompressed video but it'll cost you a lot more. If you know a service bureau that works with Abekas you can get a software that brings your TGA (or whatever) files to Abekas format. Then you put in on a data cartrige and give it to them. They put it on their machine and you can recoder it to whatever format they can offer (Betacam, M2, D1,2,3,5). -David