We have put out quite a lot of video (about 2-3 minutes per dataset) of
rotations of ray traced images from confocal microscopy. I would recommend
looking into less expensive and more extensible programs than VoxelView,
such as AVS, SGI Explorer, Wavefront Data Visualizer, IBM DX, and so forth.
We are somewhat lucky here to have a campus Visualization Center which
is equipped with Betacam-SP recording equipment and an Abekas A-64 frame store
system. This is extremely expensive pro video, and not likely what you
would be looking at for a confocal only system. However, having the setup
here has allowed production of very high quality animations, and that
has created the impetus for much of its use. I personally have produced
an hour of images from my project. The cost of the Betacam-SP tape is
about $10-20 per hour, with dubbing to 3/4inch format tapes free (large
donation of these tapes.) The whole Betacam-SP/Abekas system cost is
somewhere between $75,000-100,000, depending on exact equipment models,
monitors, etc. Best of luck, and please feel free to contact me if you
have any specific questions.
 
Cheers,
-A.J.
 
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Dept. Pharmacology / Div. Nuclear Medicine and Biophysics
CHS B2-086
UCLA School of Medicine                         Phone:310-825-8584
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