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In article <1gr5taINNrr4@fido.asd.sgi.com> grege@chopin.asd.sgi.com (Greg Estes) writes:

>|> >I'm looking for a way to pack digitized video frames to hard disk and
>|> >further to show those packed files on screen (several pictures in second).
>|> >an analyse, too).
>|> 
>|> Buy a SuperMac 'Digital Film' board for a Macintosh (and get a fast CPU and
>
>(etc., etc.)
>
>As an aside, an SGI Crimson (not a 310) VGX can run ~30FPS full resolution
>uncompressed video from memory.


The new Amiga 4000 will animate 30fps at 640 X 400 (plus overscan I believe)
in its HAM8 mode which is of a 24-bit palette.  The EdidMaster JPEG board
from DMI animates in 720 X 486 although the output is composit NTSC.  It
probably also outputs through DMI's 24-bit Vivid board... the literature is
not that specific but I assume "connectivity" on "32-bit pixel bus" means it
will output through the board which is as high as 2048 X 2048 res.  
 

>So, if you can store the images in memory
>instead of a disk, upgrading from a 310GTX to a Crimson/VGX may be a better
>use of your money than starting all over on the Mac and going the JPEG path.


For the $42,900 you'd spend on an SGI 4D Crimson Elan, you could buy a 
couple or three Amiga systems with Toasters, Vivid boards (100,000 poly/s)
and Digital EditMasters.

from DMI flyer:

HOW DOES THE DIGITAL EDITMASTER COMPARE WITH OTHER SYSTEMS (Avid, Emc2,
Digital Film) ON THE MARKET? --  First, the EditMaster takes advantage
of the up to 33 MB per second tranfer rate of the Amiga bus, not avail-
able on other desktop platforms.  This allows video to be digitized into
the system using a very low compression ratio.  This is a distict advantage
over digital editing systems operating on other computer platforms.  
Second, the EditMaster uses the full motion JPEG chipset from LSI Logic. 
The LSI chipset operates internally at a 4:2:2 digital resolution of
720 X 486.  Other products, which use the C-Cube JPEG chips, generally
digitize the signal at much lower pixel resolution.  Some are as low as
320 X 200.  The low compression ratio and full screen resolution allow
Editmaster to output edited video at Betacam quality.



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