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Article #829Re: Full Screen-Full Motion -Quicktime Video
From: John Lewis
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:49
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:49
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Supermac Digital Film is a nubus board or two, $6000?, that can do 640x480 quicktime at 30 frames/sec. with stereo sound. This one was demoed at MacWorld. The quality looked VHS-ish to me. They claimed the quality depends on how much disk bandwidth you want to purchase; this *claim* makes sense technically. I have not seen the other products: RasterOps Moviepak is a daughterboard for their *TV boards, ?$2000. A brief MacWeek article said it can do full-screen quicktime at "up to 30 frames/sec". MacWeek quoted beta testers who said the quality was excellent; the "up to" part sounds troubling though. Perhaps they mean you need a quadra & a fast disk. I believe Radius VideoVision is *not* a quicktime accelerator at the present time-- it is like the 24STV, Nuvista, and other boards: It can display video in a window and capture into memory (or disk at a slow speed), but it does not do JPEG compression. It is distinguished from the 24STV in having some filtering when scaled video is displayed (??) (better quality). > There are hints that Radius may make a JPEG compressor as a daughterboard. ================ Other full frame/full speed products are Avid's, > $10K, and something from Data Translation, which cost about $10K but as of last spring did not seem to be quicktime compatible.
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