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From: lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller)
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Subject: Re: digitizing with a video camera
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Well, the VCR that I have is a JVC (one of their high-end models).  It doesn't
do digital recording (video or audio).  What it _does_ do is digital processing.When you hit "pause", the VCR captures the current frame in some sort of RAM
buffer (digitizes it, I imagine), and continues to display the frozen image on
the screen.  The resulting picture is very stable, though clearly not quite as
high resolution as the "normal" motion picture that is not being captured by
the VCR.  Though the image is slightly chunker and has slightly less-smooth
color gradations, the image would probably digitize fine.  Other, more recent
machines may have better capturing capabilities (my VCR is about 1.5 years old,
I think...), and may overcome this limitation.  I am not a video-expert, and
don't have a digitizer to test how well the paused image digitizes, but I would
imagine that as long as there is a stable image on the TV screen (and thus a
stable, clear signal to the digitizer), it will work.

I could get the VCR model # for you, if you want, but I doubt that it is still
current.

Lawrence Miller