Illuminator Pro Sale
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Matrox Illuminator Pro with DVE's, max ram configuration and component analog
output option for sale. $2700 OBO
I'm interested. why are you selling it? What are you going to get instead?
I'm trying to decide between an ATVista and PAR, or an Illuminator with the
Animation Express board.
Todd Dunbar
71664,1447
Todd,
The firm I work for handles both. Frankly, I think the PAR is a better
solution. The combination seems to be less twitchy and the output is first
class.
Ken
Todd,
If you are still looking for an output option, I am still selling the
Illuminator pro. I am selling because I use D1 output now with the Abekas ISDG
drivers. I don't have much use for the card, but if you want it I am selling it
for cheap. $2300.00.
Jeff, what D1 machine are you rendering to with the Abekas ISDG drivers? We're
chasing our tails trying to render directly to our A66. We'll get it to work,
but if you've already got the answer we'd appreciate it!
Thanks.
In order to render to the A66 you'd need to use some sort of ethernet-UNIX
network (FTP or NFS) deal. This shouldn't be a big problem. I believe ASDG is
working on a driver to do just that… you may want to give them a call.
Actually, the Abekas driver from ASDG works really well, and is, in many
instances, more efficient and faster than ethernetting to the A66. What it
does is take your .tgas and YUV convert/back them onto Exabyte tape. You take
that tape and stream it back onto the Abekas via the SCSI port (and an Exabyte
tape drive <g>). The upload to the A66 takes 2 seconds per frame, which is
faster than ethernet, according to the place where I do all my Abekas-ing. You
could have several animations on tape, ready to go the A66 (which only hold up
to 1612 frames), and upload them as you need them. If you have several Exabyte
drives… well you see my point.
Also, this way you don't tie up your Abekas waiting for one machine to render
to it, and your files end up there in the right order. Don't forget, if you
network render to a drive like that, the frames won't always be in the right
order for playback.
If you need further assistance, ask me and I'll e-mail you my phone #.
John Tissavary (LUNA cie)