What was written in June 1999 on the Digital Origin web site

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DIGITAL ORIGIN SELECTED TO PROVIDE
TECHNOLOGY ENABLING IEEE 1394 ON
SGI'S NEW WINDOWS NT-BASED VISUAL
WORKSTATIONS

Mountain View, CA, June 9,1999-- Digital Origin (NASDAQ: DODV), today
announced an agreement with SGl (NYSE: SGI), a leading provider of visual
workstations and servers, to be the supplier of drivers for the IEEE 1394 interface
that will enable still and motion capture digital video (DV) solutions for its
Silicon Graphics 320 and 540 visual workstation lines.
The new alliance will enable Silicon Graphics 320 and 540 visual workstation
customers running Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0 to use the system's
integrated IEEE 1394 ports for digital video format capabilities. In addition, the
agreement will allow SGI to ship Digital Origin's award-winning applications,
which leverage both the 1394 standard and DV format, on the Silicon
Graphics 320 and 540 systems.
The two Mountain View-based companies called the alliance a "win-win"
situation for bofh firmS: SGI will broaden its market to include users of
industry-leading digital video editing software, and Digital Origin will gain a vast
audience on a powerful new platform targeted for multimedia and content
production.
"For serious DV producers, Digital Origin products are the natural choice," said
Brady 0. Bruce, vice president of marketing for Digital Origin. " And, with one of
best NT worstation on the market, SGI is the natural choice for their
graphics workstation selection. It's a perfect match.
"This agreement demonstrates SGI's commitment to offer leading-edge
technology and professional quality digital video capabilities to our customers,"
said Cliff director of marketing, workstation division, SGI. " As more and
more broadcast and content developers begin using the DV format, we will
support then with industry standart and the best desktop software tools
available on our platform. Digital Origin provides us with the ability to fulfill
these needs."
SGI plans to begin shipping Digital Origin DV drivers on its new 1394-enabled 320 and
540 visual workstations later this summer.

Digital Origin is the leading developer of a full suite of digital video (DV)
products that serve the complete range of DV camcoder owners'needs: still
capture, motion capture, non linear editing and post-production.Its products not
only increase productivity and enhance existing creative processes, but also make
possible new applications of digital media.
Digital Origin Inc. is, headquartered at 460 Middlefield Rd., Mountain View, CA
94043.Its products are available through a worldwide network of Digital Origin
authorized resellers, system integrators and distributors. Digital Origin can be
reached at (650) 404-6000 or at www.digitalorigin.com

Copyright @ 1998, 1999 Digital Origin Inc. All rights reserved

How to Capture Frames and Videos from the Firewire ports of the SGI 320-540

I would like to thank Mr Tim TURLEY, who has send personaly the Zip file which I have used to activate the Firewire port of my SGI 320
The Zip file can be found on his web page:

http://home.earthlink.net/~taturley/SGI_320_Firewire.htm

The activation of the SGI 320-540 doesn't work together with the Digital Origin PCI board sent to some of SGI 320-540 owners.

So far, I have only succeded to capture frames and videos from SGI1394 ports under NT4.0 sp4.
the next step is to get the print to tape working.

A: Installation of the Zip file to capture frames under ADOBE Photoshop

Unzip the file and launch PhotoDV_SGI.exe . Then merge 'SgiRegSetup.reg'.
Start Photoshop.

Under File ,Import, you should see Digital Origin PhotoDV...

B Capture of videos using Digital Origin MotoDV

The MotoDV software (MotoDVSGI.zip) was originaly produced to work with the RadLynx PCI board. To make it compatible with the SGI 320-540 firewire port, you must check the following files with the modified date.Without these versions no way to run MotoDV with the Sgi1394 ports.

WINNT\system32\drivers\RadDVDev.sys (28 june 1999)
WINNT\system32\drivers\Sgi1394.sys (28 june 1999)
WINNT\system32\RadDVFW.dll (29 june 1999)
WINNT\system32\RadRT.dll (29 june 1999)
WINNT\system32\Cls1394.dll (29 june 1999)
WINNT\system32\RadBmSvc.exe (29 june 1999)
SGI IEEE1394.zip

The service 'Radius 1394 Bus Manager' must be stopped if you need to overwrite the files.After a reboot, and, a manuel start of the drivers 'Sgi1394' then 'RadDvDev',
the Digital Origin DV Tester should be ready to control remotely the DVcam (it works with my SONY DVcam).

When it's OK close the application.

The next step is to launch the Digital Origin MotoDV.
You can now capture Videos in DV format (.mov) without any drop.

Site to visit for more info about the SGI 320