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From: [e-mail] (Douglas Nakakihara)
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>Joe Freeman the Video Junky wrote:
>
>Since taking delivery of my Flyer last Jan., it has been one heck of a
>NewTek reality check for me. Now that I can at least use my investment in
>digital video for my animations and effects somewhat, I am starting to
>feel better about my decision to keep with amiga.  I know that an alpha
>in in my future for rendering chores but my amigas are comfortable and
>work well.  I can't afford the alpha right now or even a pentium.  I was
>able to sell off my old 030 based 2000 at a good price and found an older
>3000 with an 040 in it for the money.  Even with slower 8-up board memory
>I had laying around, in the 3000, I have essentialy doubled my rendering
>speed for now.  I will have to sneaker net a hd for geting the frames over
>to the toaster machine, but the 030 had rendered so slow that it was not
>worth the effort and made my LW SA purchace of little value.

I'm going to take a wild guess that you were rendering directly to the
networked partition on the Toaster machine. If you have the spare RAM,
render to RAM first and then move the frame to the network partition. I
wrote an ARexx script that does this automatically. Don't use it much
anymore, but it should still work. E-mail me if you want it. I'll try to
dig it up.

>
>I walked out of there acually happy I bought the flyer for the first time
>ever.    The grass isn't always greeener on the other side.
>

I totally agree. I have yet to see anything that compares to an
Amiga/Toaster/Flyer (particularly an A4000/040) for all-around
useability. It ain't the fastest renderer, but Flyer clips (or even
Preview Anims) and Framestores on the Toaster are unmatched. Everything
is just so well integrated. You don't have to jump through a lot
of hoops.

Plus, ARexx is too useful of a tool to give up. Even if a Windows
alternative emerges, what are the odds that multiple SW developers
will adhere to a standard? LW, Flyer, ADPro, DPaint 5, ImageFX, and
on and on...all these can be simultaneously controlled by a single
script.

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   ////   Douglas J. Nakakihara
   * *     ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE
    ~        Simi Valley, CA

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