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From: gutierrez@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaVision
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Date: 2 Jul 90 02:22:08 GMT
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axjjb@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (BRYANT JOHN J) writes:
|> 	Well, It seems that AmigaVision is shipping withthe Educational 
|> Bundles.  I recieved mine last week and have already written a couple
|> of applications in it.  It is extremely powerful.

What I would like to see here in c.s.a. is A REVIEW of AmigaVision!!!

(...please...)

What I want to do is a presentation of an anim file, using a Pioneer
LV-series laserdisc player (the ones with the RS-232, the same ones
Amigavision is supposed to support).  But, what I want to do is play
back the anim file single-frame (one frame at a time) timed to the
laserdisc's time-code.

Originally, everybody said use "The Director", but it had no support
for reading the RS-232 port.

Then, everybody said AmigaVision is "The Answer", and it would solve
all my problems, but it strictly intution-based (icons only), with no
provision for text-scripting, like the Director.  And it only controls
the LV-series laserdisc players...it does not read timecode from LD's.

Now, I'm back to square one.  I was going to try to use Arexx, but everything
I use now has no Arexx ports, and I heard that The Director is supposed to
have an arexx port in a new release.

As it stands now, I have to hand-time the frame-advancing on an anim player,
sometimes resulting in missed cues.  Not pretty...

Suggestions???

(I'm the type of person who needs "comp.sys.amiga.multimedia" bad...)


   Robert Gutierrez
   Office of Space Science and Applications,
   NASA Science Internet Project - Network Operations Center.
   Moffett Feild, California.