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From: bbs.sauron@dsoft.UUCP (Ron Stanions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAW file conversion
Message-ID: <884@dsoft.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 06:00:17 GMT
References: <263aa0a4-1d14comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP> <882@dsoft.UUCP>
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In article <882@dsoft.UUCP> padre@dsoft.UUCP (Brian McNett) writes:
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>The FrameGrabber only grabs in 12 bit color, so converting its RAW data to a
>GIF wouldn't produce a better-than-HAM picture once the data was stripped
>down to GIF's 256 colors.

This is true, but I beleive what he's looking for is a straight 21-bit to GIF 
conversion.  Not a conversion from Ham to GIF.  This will look significantly 
better when done straight.

In the same vein, I'm trying to do a similar thing with absolutely no 
success. I'm trying to use the fbm utilities to convert Digi-View RAW files 
to GIF, but I get consistent results of either program hanging, or reports 
that I have bad file lengths (or somesuch.)  I haven't yet gotten one single 
conversion from RAW to GIF ever.  I've tried using both 3.0 and 4.0 DigiView 
versions. Raw2FBM says nothing, fbcat crashes on a straight RAW to GIF 
convert, or tells me I have a short file if I use a raw2fbm converted file.  
Anyone have any ideas how I can deal with this?