Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!skink.cis.ohio-state.edu!watters From: watters@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Video Digitizer Message-ID: <87811@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 30 Jan 91 07:42:18 GMT References: <9101251442.AA16506@astrod> <1991Jan29.184148.20805@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: david r watters Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 28 In article <1991Jan29.184148.20805@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> jwb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeff W. Brogden) writes: > >Actually, Impulse has a paint program called 'Diamond' that has menu >options to digitize images. I think they were going to have a hardware >piece to go with it (ala DigiView) but nothing ever came of it. > >I have Diamond, and the manual tells how to set the various option to digitize >and all that, but no hardware. Strange as it sounds - there is at least one >software package that didn't come automatically with a digitizer of its own. This is not so. The device was called the "VD-1" unless I am mistaken and it was mainly a frame grabber but also doubled as a buffer for rendered pics and had utils for loading sculpt stuff and TurboSilver stuff. The software side was not that polished but the hardware was nice and seemed to have decent results (I was doing grabs off a crappy VCR with a simpsons tape). I borrowed one for a weekend. It was blue and not that small. 3/4'x3/4'?! If you want to do grabs and 24bit animations and don't have the recording equipment to do single frame stuff... take a lone look at DCTV. I have been playing with it for a few days it it is very interesting. It will play full NTSC (~2.1Mcolors ?!) animations as fast as your machine can play hires-interlace anims! ( on my 030 machine that is fairly fast. :-) ) -- "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. All of us do time in the gutter, dreamers turn to look at the cars!" - RUSH David watters@cis.ohio-state.edu "It's 12:35... and Michigan STILL sucks." _-_-_-__---_---_---__-_-_-____ TurboExpress : The Neo*Geo of portables _____