CompuServe Messages

In order to hook directly on to the Abekas you need to be able to provide an Exabyte compatible 8mm data cartridge with raw data on it. The Exabyte is the only tape drive you can directly hood up to the SCSI II prot, and the Abekas, from what I understand, wants only raw image data. Although you're probably right about the tga to yuv conversion, delivering the images in targa format means you will pay at LEAST 4 cents more per frame, because it'll have to go through ethernet via a computer network onto the Abekas, instead of directly from Exabyte 85xx to Abekas. I think the images look better after conversion, but you're probably right about the digital format just kicking but over my previews. But I end up on Beta SP, so the digital thing only goes so far in my case. I haven't had a client request D1 yet (since I just started the buisness this year, and getting clients this summer, that's no big surprise), but I think the job I'm bidding on now may go D1. As far as "just writing out to Exabyte", how do you plan on doing this? I don't know of any other software that will write raw image data to Exabyte. I'm sure it's no big deal for somebody like Gus to find out what the Abekas will read and write an Exabyte driver for it, but I wouldn't have the foggiest, and the only solution right now for minimum per frame charge and maximum quality is the ASDG driver. Everyone I know who's uses them agrees. Cheers, John Tissavary (La Luna cie)