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From: djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Digitizing S-VHS with Digiview
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Date: 7 Feb 91 20:21:26 GMT
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In article <18792@uservx.afwl.af.mil> RIDOUT@uservx.afwl.af.mil writes:
>Hi all,
>I was thinking yesterday. (I know, watch out!:-)) I would like to get
>Digiview eventually and I would like to digitize pictures off of my
>vcr.  The vcr is S-VHS and has a very nice pause.  I know that you can
>digitize of the screen with a camara.  I also heard that if you use a color
>spliter that you could digitize directally.
>Question one is, can I take advantage of the S-VHS resolution with a color
>spliter?
>And question two is,  There is a svideo output on the VCR and the manual
>describes this as a seperated Y/C output.  Is there a way to use this as input
>to the Digiview with out the need for a color spliter?

I did some DigiView captures with my S-VHS deck when I first got my
DigiView. Pretty poor results, I must say; then again, I wasn't using a
color splitter or sync regenerator. I bet the B/W output of your VCR will
give you better results if (and only if) it's just like B&W composite.

The Panasonic camera that DigiView uses is a 575-line analog vidcon tube B&W
security camera with 2:1 interlace and can generate internal sync. Try and
come as close to this format as possible and you'll do alright.
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