LW & Flicker
And keep in mind, YOU CAN'T USE A FLICKER FIXER ON AN A4000!! I have
the A2320, which works great in the 4000, but uses the internal video
slot. The only solution I know of is to buy one of those external
boxes that have multiple video slots, and the cheapest price I've
seen for one of them is 800 bucks! Obviously, the target audience is
people who need a lot of slots, not some poor schmoe who needs to run
a flicker fixer with the A4000.
By the way, another question I have about LightRave is its anim
format. The toaster's internal anim format seems to be much better
in terms of playback (although not as good in file size crunching)
than the other anim formats (better than 7 and of course, obviously
better than the dog that is known as 8). With the toaster's format, I
can generally pump out a good 30 fps even with a lot of screen
changes, although a really high delta manifests itself as video
distortions when I play it back from the switcher. I talked to New
Tek tech support, and they said I could basically have the entire
screen change if I rendered in low res (which I always do). I sent
them a video tape of my screen distortions, and they're looking at it
on Monday. I'll post to the world the results of that. But, getting
back to the point, LightRave becomes useless to me if it doesn't
support that wonderful Toaster anim (which New Tek seems bent on
keeping proprietarary).