[geeks] octane personal video

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:29:41AM -0500, Kevin wrote:
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> What are the specs on this card?  Can it to do decent
> output?

Yeah.  Though you will need a easy to construct adapter cable (BNC to
RCA) if you actually want to use composite with normal gear.  But it
also offers Svideo, which is better anyway.

This card offers higher quality than you will get with DV/firewire
gear.  It is made for "low end"[0] video and for driving reference
monitors. 

[0] Low end still meaning better than most professional pro gear.

However, one significant caveat here is that this board offers no
hardware compression, and the Octane with R10ks isn't that good with
software compression, so you must supply a fast disk array capable of
sustaining something like 30 megs a second.  If you use the external
scsi connector with no devices to downgrade it, you will be fine.  Just
don't expect to be able to keep a CD-Rom  connected while doing video
work unless you add an additional SCSI interface.

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Joshua D. Boyd