Hi Aaron;
Totally understand about hectic schedules man... Mine has been crazy these past few weeks. (Going back to nights now - ugh!)
Yeah, you can roughly figure that point speed divided by 1000 is about equal to the minimum frame rate. That's not true for all cases, but it's rare that a frame has more than 1000 points in it. Of course, the number of points is usually changing from frame to frame, so the effective frame rate changes as well. Still, 20Kpps works out to around 20 frames per second. That doesn't mesh so well with a video camera running at 30 frames per second. (Even worse when it's changing up and down based on the number of points in each frame.) And when I digitize the video, I knock it down to 15 frames per second to make the file size more manageable, but that *really* plays havoc with the scanned images.
It's sort of like trying to shoot video of a computer monitor. The frame rates don't quite sync up between the monitor and the camera, so you get a lot of flicker in the image. But in real life it looks nice and smooth, thanks to persistence of vision.
Anyway, with regard to the 30K review, it's almost finished. You'll have your scanners back by next week, I promise! I tuned them up for the review, and they look great now. You'll be quite pleased with them.
Adam