On Tue, 3 May 2016, Ethan Dicks wrote: > ISTR the Toaster Flyer had 3 SCSI channels, one for A, one for B, and > one for the output stream once you were done with doing the > layout/compositing, but I wasn't a Toaster user, so I could be wrong > too.
Interesting. That makes sense since you'd have a discrete channel for everything you needed for a two-source compositing operation like a roll. I've used my SGI's a lot for simple video editing, but I never got into anything cool like a Toaster or an Avid rig. I know there are a lot of hardware options for doing video on SGI's (internal video, Sirius video, Galileo video, and the dmedia bundle for newer systems). There are applications like Alias Composer, Autodesk Flame, Flint/Effect, Avid Illusion, Jaleo, Matador, Piranha Cinema HD, Adobe Premier, and Shake. However, I haven't been able to get my hands on more than half that stuff because of how expensive it is. Plus, just about all of it was LMF nodelocked. So, you can't even buy a used copy. -Swift
