It sounds cheap, but Avid Cinema Soft Pak, and a ATI All In Wonder Capture
card work great.  For digital recording it offers several CODECS and an
option to record out to a VCR and it's only $99 through PC Connections
(software only) ATI Card is more.  Try www.avidcinema.com for more info.

My reference is that I'm the Director of Multimedia Resources at a tech
college in NH, and I use it for our productions.

It's a full blown editor that you can import all frames or a finished clip.
Edit, wipes, and more and it's native format is .mov from quicktime, very
clear.  However it needs a capture card to even install.

Goodluck,

Dean (Future POVer)
Steve Martin <sma### [at] usitnet> wrote in message
news:384FB94C.FB7C87BE@usit.net...
> >   Pov could produce animations like that but they would look much better
in
> > my opion :)
>
> That brings up a question I've wondered about lately. We have a guy
> where I
> work that just wangled himself a new SGI Octane with Maya, and has yet
> to
> even play with Maya to do any work for the TV station. I'd love to be
> able
> to generate some knock-your-socks-off stuff with POV to show him just
> how
> much money he wasted. However, I have no idea how to get a POV animation
> onto
> videotape with sufficient quality to demonstrate (which means,
> basically, no
> MPEG-1 compression).
>
> Is anyone using POV to do broadcast TV animation? If so, how are you
> getting
> NTSC video out of the computer? How are you doing full 60-field
> playback?

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