Re: Discreet Effect Option 3

I hear what you are saying. Brand name means a lot. I think I had 300mhz processors? They were the fastest R5k processor. Didn't have the R10k which at the time was very expensive and apparently didn't offer enough for the money. For cutting mattes etc. it's fine. I think to do a job with many layers is dangerous. Throw in field rendering, motion blur, plugins etc. and it will get crazy pretty fast. The interface is nice. Having a simple editor on the desktop is something I really miss but I still think you are much better off getting on to current technology. Doing basic editing (throwing frames here or there) in Combustion is very doable with the timeline and/or edit op. As for network rendering Burn is expensive and doesn't work with the o2. Good luck with it but I think will ultimately not be workable. If you need digital input / output I have a couple of Miranda SDI dongles. I'd sell you one cheap if I can find it. Also make sure to max out the RAM on the o2 as playback, video in/out are all done in memory. The o2 can't playback fullres NTSC SDI from the framestore in realtime. Frustratingly close like 27fps. I also have a Stone if you want it. That I'm going to throw out I think. It's a nice looking box but a POS. If you want the highest speed on the framestore buy at least 4 fast scsi wide drives, an adaptec pci scsi card (only certain ones work 3920 maybe?) and then connect 2 drives to the pci card and the other 2 to the o2's scsi port. Then you have to stripe the raid in the Flint setup file. God, it's all coming back to me. I hope you are familiar with Flint and Unix setup. You'll need it as there is no support. Not even for Irix!! Good luck again!