outputting an animation to video

[brianrg]

I have always used a video out on an SGI O2 to output animations to video - I am totally clueless as to the current method of doing this is on Windows box. Do I need a high end video capture/media card - ie. miro? Would a firewire card do this best? Does a firewire card just fit into a pci slot?

Thnx,
Brian

 

[labdog]

a Window box? ouch, this should be slightly difficult.

well, i have read your specs about your SGI O2 comp <A HREF="http://www.sgi.com/o2/index.html" target="_new">here</A>.

i think an athlon xp 2000+ or 2100+ cpu plus 1GB of DDR2700 memory on a eg A7V333 or a ABIT KX7-333 motherboard plus a 120GB 7200RPM ATA100 harddisk plus an ATI All in Wonder Radeon 8500DV should be better in terms of 3D power, image quality & capturing. obviously, all these hardware supported by the Windows XP Professional OS.

besides, if you are hard disk high power consumer (because of capturing & video editing), you can used a raid0 configuration with 2 120GB hard disks.

moreover, if you want a professional capturing graphics card you can have a look on the Matrox RT2500, the Pinnacle DV 500 Plus or the Pinnacle Pro-One.

& finally you can choice also a geforce TI4600 which is a little better for 3D than the ATI AIW R8500DV but without a most part of video features. in this case you can reenforce the A/V capturing/editing with one of the above professional capturing cards.

addendum
the TI4600 & the R8500DV are described on the THG <A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q1/020304/index.html" target="_new">here</A> and <A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q4/011211/index.html" target="_new">here</A>



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