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#Exabyte to Abakas

    07-Dec-93 12:20:31
To: John Tissavary 71054,15
John: >> I don't know of any other software that will write raw image data to >> Exabyte. You may have missed my posting 'way back when this issue first came up, but the Abekas, being a UNIX based machine, just reads a simple 'tar' archive file. ASDG got real mad at me when I mentioned that you could do the color checking in R3 and write your files out to Targa, then use one of the many public domain PC-tar programs to go the the Exabyte (GO UNIXFORUM). They haven't answered any of my questions since! The Exabyte formats it's data the same way for PC and UNIX environments. You could even do this as a line in Video Post to just append the file most recently saved to the end of the tar file on the Exabyte, and delete the file from your PC to save the space. If you don't let 3DS do the color checking, the image may go outside 'NTSC legal', but Gary & co. have done a very good job making sure that it works properly. Greg Pyros