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From: midkiff@portia.Stanford.EDU (Neil Midkiff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: digitizing with a video camera
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.080958.10966@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 90 08:09:58 GMT
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In article <41073@sequent.UUCP> gregf@crg2.uucp (Greg Fuller) writes:
>I'm looking for hardware to interface a video camera to a mac.  I would
>like to be able to digitize people's faces, and save them in either mac
>paint or PICT format.  Color is not a necessity.
>
>Both Computer Eyes and MacVision claim that scanning time is about 6
>seconds, or longer for higher resolution scans.  Does this mean that
>the person being digitized would need to sit perfectly still for 6+
>seconds?

I bought MacVision (version 2.1) recently and have found it pretty
good at some things and a bit problematic in other respects.  It works
perfectly with still frames from VCR or camcorder...which is probably
your best solution for portraits: record the subject and digitize from
a freeze frame.  But it takes 20 seconds for a full-size (640x480
pixels of eight bits (256 grays)) scan, not 6 seconds.  The quality is
as good as I can detect since I currently have only a four-bit
grayscale monitor.  Currently I have not been able to make it
recognize a "live" signal from the camcorder's camera (even a still
life with the camera on a tripod).  Does anyone have any suggestions
as to why it won't recognize the "live" signal?
-Neil