#Video toaster for IBM
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I tremendously appreciate the information you just gave me. I have a
lot of Amiga-based equipment (6 A4000, 3 A2000) and the Raptor
rendering engine. However, we also have about 50 486/66 PC's with
the software to match (mainly 3D Studio, Animator Pro, Photoshop
Windows, and other image editing/manipulation programs).
I am really interested in the DVE capabilities of the Alladin. I
have seen pictures of it, and it looks to me like they have turnkey
systems as well, am I correct? (A black, sleek PC) What you
mentioned about component video sounds particularly good since we are
planning to upgrade our decks to Beta (using SVHS right now), because
we need the precious quality for our 3D anims. I want to compare the
quality of the Opalvision DVE thing, which should be out by now (to
dealers, at least) to that of the Alladin. Any idea?
Again, thanks so much for the detailed info and please, do keep me
updated on your finds and tribulations with the Alladin.
POlo
What I saw of a preliminary version of the Opalvision Roaster/Video
Processor was an improvement over Toaster with respect to DVE
pixelization and the ability to create and save DVE moves. However,
comparing the Opalvision's DVE to the Alladin's is unfair in the
extreme. Alladin's DVE is FAR superior and shouldn't even be
mentioned in the same breath as the Alladin, and rivals anything
you'll see for 25k and up in dedicated DVE's.
Pinnacle's turnkey Alladin's are essentially vanilla clones in black
mini towers. They can be equipped with a number of configurations
depending on memory and HD requirements. Minimum system is 486-DX66
with 2Meg 16 or 24 bit SVGA graphics (800X600 Hi Color or better).
250 meg HD (500 megs recommended), and an Adaptec SCSI controller.
The SVGA Monitor must also be capable of 800X600 display.
The PC attatches to the Alladin unit via SCSI. This would lead one to
believe that at some point in the future, the software which controls
the Alladin could come from any platform that offers SCSI (mac and
SGI come to mind right off the bat).
Sounds as though you are all set to take advantage of 3-D on the PC (I
assume you are planning a cross platform Lightwave upgrade) with 50
machines standing by.
Thanks for the info on the Opalvision.
Yeah, we are thinking of getting an Indy (to get into that software market) and
Lightwave for the SGI, and we are planning to take advantage of our PC's.