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From: rkm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: digitizing with a video camera
Message-ID: <5368@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 90 16:51:01 GMT
Reply-To: rkm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
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In article <1990Aug24.215738.10525@midway.uchicago.edu> lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller) writes:

From my readings on rec.video, I would tend to believe that the reason you
get low resolution scans from a paused VCR is because you and your scanner
are only seeing a single field and not a full frame (2 fields = 1 frame).  I
tried taking some photos from a television screen of a paused VCR picture of
a face and got something that was recognizable but streaked and very grainy.
Basically you are only getting half the picture information.

I would also like to know what you mean by "digital VCR".  I didn't know these
existed.  What manufacturer?  Model?  Is it performing a digital recording of
both video and audio?
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Richard K. Mossman  {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!rkm
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