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Subject: Re: Alpha Workstations
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>One thing I'm still very uncertain about is getting the animations to tape
>from the Alpha platform. It seems that Targa doesn't have NT driver yet, so
>what other options do I have? I work exclusively for broadcast television
>advertising and final video output quality MUST be 100%. Is the PAR card an
>option? What about networking with the Amiga and a Toaster (even though
>toaster video output is not quite 100%, it's what I've been working with and
>has been satisfactory), what would be involved in this process?
>
>Once again, thanks for all the information received.
LW for the Alpha can generate IFF images, which you can ethernet to
your Amiga and display on whatever is your best display device. For general
work, we use the PAR. For best output, I display the images on a
Firecracker24 in RGB, and transcode it to Y/R-Y/B-Y with a Nova XCoder-2. I
then single frame record to M-II. The results are excellent, with zero
artifacting, no matter what the content of the image.
<ELF> - Eric J Fleischer,MD - Dr Gandalf AlfHeim Imaging