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Is there any kind of hardware that will let me output animations to video?
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You can do it if you have a video card like the Matrox Millennium G400. If
you want really professional results, you can go the really expensive way
and buy a Perception DSP...
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Lance.
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You will definately want a good system to run the animations smoothly onto video
tape. I've been wondering about recordable DVDs or CDs since they would still
be just files instead of going to tape making for no frame dropout (I would
hope). If you play animations out through a video card with TV-Out I'm not so
sure you could keep 100% of the frames on a lower-end system.
http://www.proh.com/ has DVD-R. Pioneer has one for just over 200 $US too,
but I don't know at all what's what yet.
Bob
"Lance Birch" <-> wrote in message news:38d2051e@news.povray.org...
| You can do it if you have a video card like the Matrox Millennium G400. If
| you want really professional results, you can go the really expensive way
| and buy a Perception DSP...
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| Lance.
| The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
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Hmmm... DVD could be an option. Even then though you'd need a fairly good
system to do the playback through, a lot of DVD drives and decoder cards for
computers are still lacking a bit.
Because my G400 supports separated screens I can run the second monitor at a
correct TV refresh rate, and use MAX's new RAM buffer to play the animations
out without dropping any frames.
From what I've seen from Perception though, it never drops frames, but
that's going into $1000s :(
DVD sounds like a good idea, I hadn't thought of it before. (anyone know if
DVD-R can be played back through normal "set top" DVD solutions?)
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Lance.
The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
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In article <38d229dd@news.povray.org>, "Lance Birch" <-> wrote:
>DVD sounds like a good idea, I hadn't thought of it before. (anyone know
>if
>DVD-R can be played back through normal "set top" DVD solutions?)
DVD-R should, since that's the point of it, however, you're more likely
to be using DVD-RAM which does not.
Note that if your DVD player plays CDR, it should also be able to play
VCDs made on your CD recorder. Some DVD players can play CDR and some
can't.
Jerry
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> Because my G400 supports separated screens I can run the second monitor at a
> correct TV refresh rate, and use MAX's new RAM buffer to play the animations
> out without dropping any frames.
>
> From what I've seen from Perception though, it never drops frames, but
> that's going into $1000s :(
>
As long as you have a fast computer and food fast hard drives (I
recommend
going SCSI if your really going to get into this) the G400 will work
just
fine.
I know a few small production houses that use it for small scale
animations
and presentations and they love it.
I haven't had any problems with mine dropping any frames. I also have
the
slightly older G200 that I used to use for presentations that never had
that
drop frames and the output was always great.
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With the 3DS MAX RAM buffer it's been awesome, I don't get any frame drops
and the output looks really good. Anyway, off to sleep.
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Lance.
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"Bob Hughes" <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:38d2222e@news.povray.org...
| Pioneer has one for just over 200 $US too,
| but I don't know at all what's what yet.
Whoa! I was supposed to say a DVD-R player there, sorry. URL to some:
http://www.videotechplus.com/DVD/DVD.htm The Phillips DVD825AT for one.
I was thinking more along the lines of Video CD for now and DVD-R drive for
making them much later (if ever, ha-ha).
Anyway, it might be pricey either way you go but to have a DVD player capable of
playing a Video CD also can be in the price range of a good computer video card
with TV-Out and it's no doubt better than going to VHS. Only thing is, you
would still need the video encoding to get the Mpeg-2 or whatever onto the CD
via a CD-R or CD-RW drive. More money needed but I was thinking of quality and
the better appliance (DVD vs. VHS for example), especially as time goes by.
http://www.proh.com/DVD_and_CD_compatibility_chart.shtml
http://www.pioneer.co.jp/press/press1999-e.html
This first URL might clear some things up about DVD, the second is news.
Bob
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:21:29 +1100, "Steven Jones" <ste### [at] tsncc> wrote:
>Is there any kind of hardware that will let me output animations to video?
>
Like Lance I use a Matrox G400 dual head card and output to my video recorder
with no problems.
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Steven Jones wrote:
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> Is there any kind of hardware that will let me output animations to video?
If you convert your animation to a MPEG-2 file then you could play
it through a hardware MPEG-2 decoder with direct (super-) video output
to your VCR or TV.
There are some DVD-ROM players for PC that can be bought with
these cards. (Or you may find a stand alone MPEG-2 decoder card.)
I have a card like this and it works ok together with my video card.
Make sure that there is no anti copy protection system (i.e. Macro-
vision) activated when recording. (I do not know if these are
possible to switch off when not playing DVD-discs.)
The advantage of this set-up is that it's relatively cheap and you
wouldn't have to make a DVD-disc.
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