[geeks] SGI Indy/I2 video software question...

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Mon Jan 13 08:59:30 CST 2003


Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:09:46AM -0500, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> > I edited a couple movies on my Indy at NTSC resolution, and it was slow,
> > but it worked okay.  Patience is the key.  I was blown away when I first
> > used
> 
> Did you have the indy video and cosmo board?
> 

No, hence the moderate amount of pain.  I used it though, as it was the only
thing I had available to me at the time.
> 
> It's a same really.  It seems to me that Digital Video for the octane
> is in about the same ball park $$$ wise as any quality D1
> capture/playboard with audio for the mac is.  And Octanes aren't that
> costly, even rather modern ones like R12ks with V6 graphics.  But there

One of these days I'd really like to get a personal video option for the
Octane.  It, and a fiberchannel array, are the only things missing I
think...

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Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com


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