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Subject: What's the best video card/system to use to output animation?

Wag opened this issue on Dec 21, 2001 · 1 posts
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Wag ( ) posted Fri, 21 December 2001 at 3:08 AM · edited Fri, 16 August 2024 at 5:19 PM

I bought one of the first Video Toasters and then Video Flyers to roll off the line about ten years ago, hoping to output animation at "broadcast quality" as they touted, only to find that the compression caused large flat areas of solid color to become degraded and loaded with artifacts. Also, no high quality outputs...just composite (VHS quality), no y/c (SVHS) or component (beta SP...true broadcast). In short, my $12,000 system sat and collected a lot of dust...I'm about ready to shove it out the window. I'm wondering if anyone here has been using desktop video systems in the under-$5,000 range (like Pinnacel 2000) that can truly output animation at a level of quality that could conceivably be submitted to a cable network like the Cartoon Network or shown at a film festival on digital video projector...actual BROADCAST quality, if output to DV or beta sp? Your experiences very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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