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- Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:40:20 -0800
- From: Mike McCool <mikemcoo@efn.org>
- Subject: [IML] AMIGA: imagn won't recognize PAR
-
- Damned aggravation! Has anyone else encountered this prob? I'm trying to
- load an animated brush sequence from the PAR as an environment map on a
- blob object, and it claims it can't find the brush.
-
- I was just rendering the goddam anim and it was finding the brushes fine,
- then--as Imagine FREQUENTLY does since 2.0--it crashed my machine.
-
- Restarting, re-load project, start over (with PAR running in the
- background), and it claims it can't find the brush PAR:paint/brush.0001.
-
- (I know it's SEEING the par, 'cause I'm rendering the frames to the PAR,
- and the file names begin to show up on the PAR drive even before imagine
- has time to send the stupid screen prompt that it can't find
- PAR:paint/brush.0001. So why the hell, if it's finding the PAR to write
- to, can't it find the PAR to read from? Dumb dumb dumb!).
-
- Excuse this post xmas anger, but imagine's caused me more prob's lately
- than it's helped me.
-
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-
- From: "Ash R. J. Wyllie" <ashw@LR.NET>
-
- I'm not quite sure what is going on, after the restart it looks like
- everything is running normally. AFAIK PAR cannot have more than one file
- "open" at a time. As soon as Imagine starts rendering it opens the output
- fileand that blocks access to the brush file. As to why it worked the first
- time...
-
-
- -ash
- (Where is John Galt when you need him?)
-
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-
- From: Mike McCool <mikemcoo@EFN.ORG>
-
- Nope. This doesn't bother the PAR at all. I've had various renderers
- pulling as many as nine different animated brushmaps from the par at the
- same time, while frames are being RENDERED to the PAR.
-
- But the answer is indeed in the crash. After reboot, the PAR defaulted to
- its own "par" format, which, of course, Imagine couldn't recognize.
-
- (Thanx, everyone, for your input here. I'm back up and flying with
- imagine again. Aren't love/hate relationships the strongest . . . ?).
-
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-
- From: Mike McCool <mikemcoo@EFN.ORG>
-
- > What IS PAR???
-
- Sorry. I hate that kind of trick speak, myself, and shouldn't assume
- everyone knows what all the initials stand for.
-
- PAR means Personal Animation Recorder. It's from Digital Processing
- Systems, and it allows recording/playback of animations in full
- 24bit video at 30 fps. Has its own dedicated video hard drive.
-
- On the PC side, they're called PVR's (stands for Personal Video Recorder).
-
- These, in combination with a Time Base Corrector, represent the original
- non-linear editing devices, and, naturally, they started on the Amiga.
-
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