Finally the beginning of my video suite gets built!

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Is this for a hobbyist setup? Becuase when you do the math on running all that equipment it may be more cost effective to get PC's/ Macs off the shelf.

If you're doing it for the Amiga Factor of seeing what's possible, then GO FOR it. I had a setup similar to that from 96-2005. Complete with 2 toshiba timms, A4000T, A4000HighFlyer, MacG4/G5 and a PC with the VT3 (pc video toaster version)

Those were good times!

[Crom00]

Amiga VT flyer output recorderd onto DV hold up ok. Text tends to get hazy around the edges. These days I use NewTek's VT4 system uncompressed as a $1000 PC with SATA drive Raid can do uncompressed quite well.

Even a cheap Wall-MART PC does great with an external SATA array. For playback or simple 2 stream edits.

The uncompressed graphics are stunning. I never though there was that much of a difference until I compared a flyer clip to uncompressed.

I will say that the flyer does a nice job of making the video look "analog" instead of BLOCKY aliased artifacts associated with MPEG2 and MotionJPEG, based compression.

[Crom00]

I can't run lightwave on the Amiga again. Rendering is just too long. I used ti render on pc and edit on Amiga.