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Hiya multimedia gurus,
I would like to hear from people who are involved in producing animated 
sequences on the Macintosh. We are setting up a IIcx with a 24 bit 
real-time video frame grabber card and an RGB -> NTSC Composite/S-Video 
box for output to videotape. I am trying to locate software that can 
animate a sequence of images using both the hard disk and RAM to full 
advantage, i.e. assuming that there are a 100 images in the animation, but 
only 20 can be loaded into memory at one time, the program must be able to 
animate these images using some kind of buffering technique wherein it is 
able to do three things simultaneously; animate the frames in RAM while 
throwing out frames as soon as they are no longer needed and 
simultaneously read the disk to pull in new frames.
I've taken a look at Macromind Director, but that program seems to load 
information into memory in 'chunks' - animate them - throw out the old 
chunk - read in a new one for animation and so on. This causes a 
noticeable gap between chunks. I have heard that Hypercard is able to do 
good memory management and access the hard disk at the same time. Are 
there any other animation programs that are able to do what I'm looking 
for, either independently or in concert with Hypercard ?
Any tips, thoughts,  advice, info on software will be deeply appreciated.

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