alan.kennedy@canremote.uucp (ALAN KENNEDY) (11/30/89)
I'd really like to hear from anyone who has used the Lyon Lamb - MiniVas VTR controllers. We are using them on a Wavefront, and a Neo Visuals system, and are having a lot of problems. Things like skipping a frame on an in point leaving you a black frame in the middle of your animation. And other annoying things like that... Al Kennedy --- * Via ProDoor 3.1R
rfree@cam.nist.gov (Richard Freemire) (12/03/89)
In article <89120107514469@masnet.uucp>, alan.kennedy@canremote.uucp (ALAN KENNEDY) writes: > I'd really like to hear from anyone who has used the Lyon Lamb - MiniVas > VTR controllers. We are using them on a Wavefront, and a Neo Visuals > system, and are having a lot of problems. Things like skipping a frame > on an in point leaving you a black frame in the middle of your > animation. And other annoying things like that... > > Al Kennedy We have a VAS IV which is a precurser to the miniVas. I had the same problem that you describe. That I found was that if you issue the 'record' button as soon as you can after the pre-roll to edit, the Vas can skip a frame. Try putting a delay between the reception of the pre-roll finished char and issuing the record command. The Vas IV was designed for people and the computer interface was an after thought. Many of the commands can't be issued too close together or you get strange non-repeatable problems. I'd like to have all the Vas users talk together. I got NO software for my system, I had to write my own. I never got any support from Lyon-Lamb. Is this what other people had to put up with? I'm new on the net so I don't have a logo/signoff yet. Richard Freemire National Institute for Standards and technology use to be Natl. Bureau of Standards Gaithersburg, Md 20899 301-975-3814 rfree@cam.nist.gov
berry@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Berry Kercheval) (12/07/89)
In article <1825@dgl.cam.nist.gov> rfree@cam.nist.gov (Richard Freemire) writes: >In article <89120107514469@masnet.uucp>, alan.kennedy@canremote.uucp (ALAN KENNEDY) writes: >> I'd really like to hear from anyone who has used the Lyon Lamb - MiniVas >> VTR controllers. >We have a VAS IV which is a precurser to the miniVas. I had the same problem >that you describe. I have a MiniVas and have had no problems in several hours of animation. What kind of VTR's are you guys using? I have found Sony BVW-40's to be rock-solid machines. >I'd like to have all the Vas users talk together. I got NO software for >my system, I had to write my own. I never got any support from >Lyon-Lamb. Is this what other people had to put up with? I got some software from L/L for the MiniVas that claimed to be Unix compatible, but it was written in a weird ANSI-ish dialect of C, had horrid system dependencies (like #include </usr/people/fred/src/vas.h>) and assumed PC-ish architecture. It turned out to be worse than completely useless. Only took me about 1/2 a day to write my own bare-bones library for it. The worst part was remembering to turn off ECHO on the tty port. (When you send 'I' to init the MiniVas, it replies with 'I' when done, which is echod to the MiniVas by the tty driver. So the MiniVas inits itself again, and again, and again....) >I'm new on the net so I don't have a logo/signoff yet. What you have is just fine. (I promise not to do any .sig bashing in comp.graphics...) --berry -- bERRY Kercheval :: berry@lll-crg.llnl.gov