FS on ebay - DPS PAR!!!

[sprocket]

Good card for recording animations & sequences of files.

Video capture if you've got a DPS TBC IV, process sequences and playback in real time.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300267269150

These seem to be getting kind of rare and are a good an inexpensive option for an Amiga with Zorro slots.

thanks for your interest.

[sprocket]

my idea,newtek toaster+flyer more best combination for capturing...

I'll be listing some Toaster stuff also if you're interested.

(The Toaster/Flyer is a good choice but is often going to cost more.  The Macrosystems Vlab Motion will also do that.  I had one of those years ago also.)

At the moment, I'm posting for those who may be interested in having an inexpensive way to output their animations.

[sprocket]

But if I understand right...This card combined with a VLab motion would sub for a TBC and a Flyer...at least partially anyway? I have tons of IDE drives laying around...SCSI is harder to get ahold of. This will work in a 2000 ok? And the Toaster?

Um, no you don't need the Vlab Motion.

You can load sequences of frames (including 24 bit) and play them back in real time.

If you have a sound card you can use it to add sound.

You have to have a DPS TBC IV to capture video in real time.

If you have a Toaster you can run the video through it either going into the PAR via TBC IV or coming out.

Yes, it works fine in the 2000...that's what I had it in and that's what was around most when they came out.

You may have to check a few IDEs...firmware on some would choke.  My memory is the 4 gig max issue is a limit for these...but to be honest I can't remember.

[sprocket]

it's sort of like an early Flyer in that it allowed you to record frames/sequences to a drive.

in that sense, it needs the TBC IV to capture video while the Flyer had it's own built in I believe.

(the Vlab Motion would capture without a TBC as long as the video signal was pretty stable but it was awful about choking on compression when a lot was going on...on screen.)

[sprocket]

I thought I read somewhere that the VLab will capture without a TBC being necessary,

yes, it will but it also struggles with compressing things on the fly through the Z bus and can often not keep up.

as well as doing Chromakey. DPS is no longer around and I haven't seen any TBC-IV advertised anywhere..not on E-bay anyway.

they do show up sometimes...and if you use automated searches you can sometimes find them in other categories since they could also be used in the DPS rackmount box.

So I was actually thinking the VLab was my best bet.  So to be clear, there is no way to input video into the PAR without the TBC?

no.

I am new to alot of this and trying to get a usuable system. Bear with me. I can run video from the PAR into the Toaster without the TBC though?

yes.

SO that only leaves the question of what to do with Input 1 on the VT...I don't have any studio equipment to generate blackburst.

Last question for now...MiniDV doesn't need TBC, but how would you connect it to the Toaster to begin with, with no firewire or USB?

um, you might use a Highway or similar USB card to make a connection to a MiniDV cam but I'm not aware of any software that can read those files on the Amiga...but I could be mistaken.  Only other way I can think of is to use the composite outputs and digitize as composite 'in' to a Flyer, TBC/PAR or Vlab Motion.

[sprocket]

That thing went quick! Didn't really have time to sleep on it (literally)..gone while I was sleeping.

heh....early bird catches the worm, you snooze you lose...and all that!

PARs come up now and then these days.  They aren't usually priced as high as they once were but then nothing is.

"Buy it Now" tends to work really well for listings of items that aren't listed everyday and my experience is if someone sees something they think they want, they snag it quick.