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To: Z Analyzer who wrote (3250)	5/7/1998 10:37:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Respond to of 9256

Re: EMC; Video editing For the record, Gus likes EMC. I wonder where he is? I recently got into the digital video editing business (not entirely by choice.) Holy shoepolish, this stuff chews up drivespace like a sharks in a koi pond. At 1/2 NTSC resolutions, we're talking 400MB per MINUTE uncompressed video at 24bpp. I knew the numbers before, but actually dealing with this kind of storage constraint personally is a real eye opener. I'll have to convert some partitions to NTFS just to get a partition big enough to compile my goddam video -- 2GB FAT limit is a bottleneck at this point ... only holds 5 minutes of video! If there were some mass-market application for video editing, HDD demand would blow through the ceiling. If I were SEG/QNTM/IBM I would think about making video import hardware REAL REAL cheap ... the politics of the situation would obstruct that kind of venture seeding I suppose. Something to be said for monopolies -- Intel has no problem seeding all kinds of potential CPU boosters (that they can think of, anyway.) God bless, PX