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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!starnine!mikeh
- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Comdex/Quicktime released for the PC
- Message-ID: <Bzqw4K.3n8@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:53:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.210945.2081@pcnntp.apple.com>
- Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
- Lines: 57
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- In article <1992Dec14.210945.2081@pcnntp.apple.com> Dale_Adams@gateway.qm.apple.com (Dale Adams) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.114702.4604@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- >cse_stu@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
- >
- >> I work on mac's and amiga's and when the program tells you that you are
- >> doing 30 frames a sec it will not allways give you that output. I can test
- >> the amiga easily by recording the animation onto videotape where I can step
- >> through each frame to see if there are any changes. On the mac you are not
- >> as lucky but if you can go to video tape that will be the real test.
- >
- >The Quadras will produce NTSC or PAL timing so the video output can easily
- >be sent to videotape. (You do need an external RGB-to-composite converter
- >to produce color composite video.) I haven't tried this. It sounds like
- >an interesting test, though. I have simply asked the animation program to
- >play back at the maximum rate it can. The output rate is definitely 3
- >times the rate of a slower Mac whose maximum frame rate is 30 fps using
- >the same software. Slower Macs scale similarly.
-
- All you can speak of is the top-of-the-line mac! So unless you
- spend the max, you can't get decent animation, eh?
-
- Really sounds like a machine and OS TUNED for video, right!
-
- >
- >> I've seen a Quadra running quick time and the sales guy said it was 30
- >> frames per sec and 24 bit color but when I looked at
- >> the picture it was at best 10 or 12bit color and 8 to 10 frames per sec.
- >
- >I never said I was using QuickTime. If you're trying to get the maximum
- >frame rate possible, QuickTime is not what you want to use.
-
- If you're trying to get the maximum frame rate possible, A
- Macintosh is not what you want to use.
-
- >And never,
- >never believe the sales guy.
-
- And never, never buy a Mac.
-
- (Although using QT 1.5 I can playback 320 x
- >240 animations at 30 fps on a 16 bit/pixel screen.)
-
- Using only the most expensive mac. Go ahead, pay apple for the priveledge
- of doing what an Amiga 600 can do better.
-
- >
- >> I should know because I have been dealing in animations for the past 5
- >> years and I can tell 30 frames per second and I have never since any mac
- >> that is able or has the specs to have full frame rate, full screeen
- >> animation.
- >
- >Then meet my Quadra 950. (Maybe you haven't been using the right
- >software?)
-
- And the fact that you need an 040 to do simple 30fps anims indicates
- you're not using the right computer.
-
-