[jan-jaap]

I did buy the machine with a big box of external video gear, the Iris also has some sort of VME video capture board. I expected there to be a user with an extensive video editing desktop.

Sounds like VideoFramer?

The Personal IRIS is nowhere near fast enough to capture or produce video like it's done these days. It's frame by frame video. You need a recorder capable of recording a single frame, and be controlled by the IRIS using a protocol called VLAN (unrelated to what a VLAN is in networks)

Basically, you render an image, load it in the VideoFramer, send the command to the deck and it records the frame. Then you render the next frame  etc etc and after a night you have 30 seconds of animation.

The VideoFramer can capture video as well, but again, one frame at a time.

You can see a VideoFramer board in my own 4D/35 in the first post of this thread. I have the breakout and the cables as well