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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Various
Message-ID: <770@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 89 08:18:58 GMT
References: <2645@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <2645@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes:
> I need to be able to display still-frame images from a VCR, and to then be
> able to paint over those images and store only the painted portions, for
> later use in animation.

You can do that with just a genlock if you have a VCR with a rock-solid
freeze-frame and can display that image for more than 10 minutes.  Not many
VCRs can do that.

If you use a digitizer or frame grabber and save the picture as a 32-color
image, you can tell Delexe Paint read in the picture and to fix the
background as a stencil.  DPaint allows you to draw on top of the stencil,
and then pick up the stuff you drew and save that to disk.
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